--- Southwall Awarded $1.4 Million from U.S. Department of Energy to Make Homes and Buildings More Energy Efficient. DOE is focusing grant funding on the development of innovative technologies that can create energy-saving windows that insulate like walls. (more)

--- ACEEE Study: 'Smart Meters' Not Smart Enough to Slash Residential Power Use. Consumers could cut their household electricity use as much as 12 percent and save $35 billion or more over the next 20 years if U.S. utilities go beyond simple "smart meter" initiatives. (more)

--- GE Energy Teams Up with Norwegian and Swedish Energy Companies in Offshore Wind Demonstration Projects. Both initiatives will feature the largest wind turbine in GE’s fleet, a 4.0-megawatt machine that includes a 110 meter rotor. (more)

--- RoseStreet Announces Breakthrough Multiband Solar Cell Technology.This technology illustrates great promise for high efficiency thin film solar efficiencies above 35%. (more)

--- Gordon Murray Design Unveils the T.25, Low-Carbon City Car. The T.25 represents a major breakthrough in city car design in the areas of weight, footprint, safety, usability and efficiency. (more)

--- Toshiba to Build Electric Drive Motors in the U.S. The production will be Toshiba's first overseas manufacturing base for automotive propulsion motors. (more)

--- Maryland Energy Administration: Governor O’Malley Fuels $1 Million Investment for Additional Electric Vehicle Advancements in Maryland. Up to 66 charging stations will be installed as well as 249 truck stop electrification (TSE) units. (more)

--- Sulfurcell Now Offers CIS Thin-film Solar Modules in US. The solar power modules have a smooth black appearance and a compact format making them attractive for building integrated photovoltaics. (more)

--- EDF EN Canada Starts Construction of 36 MW of Solar PV Plant in Ontario. Three solar plants are under construction under Ontario’s FIT. (more)

--- Schneider Electric and Parkeon Partner to Develop Electric Vehicle Charging System. The system will integrate energy management and pay by space technology. (more)

--- Applied Materials: Summer Solstice Survey Shows U.S. Consumers Want More Solar Energy. According to the survey, 67 percent of Americans would be willing to pay more for their monthly utility bill if their utility company increased its use of renewable energy. (more)

--- SunPower Announces New World Record Solar Cell Efficiency: 24.2 Percent. Increased efficiency reduces the cost per watt and cost per kilowatt-hour. (more)

--- Siemens to Build 15 MW Solar PV Plant in Italy. Besides plant design and engineering, Siemens will provide inverters, transformers, medium-voltage equipment as well as the monitoring and control system, and will also erect the plant. (more)

--- Dow Jones Selects SunPower to Build 4.1 MW Solar System. The system will include 3.6 megawatts of elevated solar panels above parking areas and a 522-kilowatt rooftop installation. (more)

--- Dow Kokam Breaks Ground on Advanced Battery Manufacturing Plant. Prismatic lithium-ion batteries, to be produced in Midland, Michigan, will provide greater volumetric and gravimetric energy density than other battery technologies. (more)

--- General Motors: 4,400 Chevrolet Volt Owners Eligible for Free Home Charging Stations. Volt buyers that live within the program cities may apply for a free 240-volt home charging station through the Coulomb or ECOtality. (more)

--- AMSC Proprietary Power Electronics Incorporated in Nearly 10 Percent of the World’s Wind Power Capacity. This amount of zero-emission electricity is sufficient to power approximately 4.5 million U.S. households. (more)

--- NanoeXa Offers Partnering Opportunites in Li-ion Battery Materials and Simulation Software Development. The software enables the rapid and low cost design of advanced materials. (more)

--- A. O. Smith Partners with Takagi to Market and and Manufacture Tankless Water Heaters in North America.The companies expect the transaction to close in the third quarter. (more)

--- Silent Power to Provide SMUD with Distributed Energy Storage Technology. The utility’s $5.9 million pilot project will evaluate how the integration of energy storage enhances the value of distributed PV resources for the community, the utility and the grid. (more)

--- VIASPACE and Germany’s RuBa Energie to Collaborate on Giant King Grass as Biogas Feedstock. Biogas, a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, is burned in an engine that drives a generator which produces electricity and usable heat. (more)

--- juwi solar Completes Largest Solar Project in Ohio. The 12 MW project officially began generating renewable solar power on a commercial basis on May 26, 2010. (more)

--- IKEA to Phase Out Incandescent Lighting in All US Stores. The IKEA phase out will come in advance of the federal legislation that will begin to phase out incandescent light bulbs in 2012. (more)

--- Natural Currents Energy Services and City College of New York (CCNY) to identify Tidal Energy Sites in New Jersey. Site selection is critical to hydrokinetic energy projects because the kinetic energy in a current is related to its speed cubed. (more)

--- U.S. Geothermal: Conditional Loan Guarantee First Step in Power Plant Construction. A $102.2 million loan is available from the US DOE. (more)

--- AMSC and Hyundai Heavy industries to Partner on 5MW Wind Turbine Development. The alliance will include the joint development of a 5 megawatt (MW) full conversion wind turbine primarily for use in the burgeoning offshore wind industry. (more)

--- Proterra Receives $20 Million in Funding to Build Battery-Electric Transit Buses. The money will accelerate its construction of Proterra’s first full-scale manufacturing plant in Greenville, South, Carolina. (more)

--- Masdar Partners with Total, Abengoa Solar to Build 100MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant. Shams 1 will contribute towards Abu Dhabi’s target of achieving 7% renewable energy power generation capacity by 2020. (more)

--- Silfab to Open 120 MW Solar Module Plant in Canada. The new plant will manufacture high-efficiency photovoltaic modules built with monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon cells with a power up to 300 Wp. (more)

--- Smith Electric Vehicles Announces UK’s First Electric Vehicle Appenticeship Program. As part of the partnership, Smith is donating vehicle chassis and components to Gateshead College. (more)

--- Ice Energy and SAIC Partner to Develop and Deliver Energy Storage Projects for U.S. Government and Military Markets. The agreement will ramp Ice Energy’s ability to develop and deliver 100's of megawatts of energy storage projects to federal markets. (more)

--- SDG&E Unveils New Solar Power Demonstration Projects. Projects will include a PowerDish from Infinia and Concentrator Photovoltaic module from Solfocus. (more)

--- GrafTech Awarded $1.15 million US Dept. of Energy Grant for Solar Thermal Storage System. GrafTech will work to develop a specialized graphite material for use in the plant’s towers to create the most efficient thermal electricity generating process. (more)

--- Hybrid Turbines Gas-Wind System Provides 24/7 Power from Wind Turbines. The SmartGen(tm) system utilizes a ground-based turbo-compressor to compress air and this compressed air is used to drive a turbo air motor directly connected to the wind turbine generator. (more)

--- Plug In Carolina Selects AeroVironment to Supply, Install and Support EV Charging Stations in South Carolina. The network of public electric vehicle (EV) “re-fueling” stations in seven South Carolina cities is expected to be operational by December 1, 2010. (more)

--- BlueChip Energy Starts Development of 10 MW Solar Farm in Florida. The company has a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply Progress Energy Florida with renewable solar power from the project. (more)

--- T3 Motion Unveils Its GT3 Plug-in EV. Top speed is 70 mph, range 80 - 100 miles per charge. (more)

--- KYOCERA Commences U.S. Manufacturing of Solar Modules. Initial production includes solar modules ranging from 210 watts to the company's latest flagship 235-watt modules. (more)

--- Vanguard Minerals Forms GreenZone Ventures. GreenZone will target bio-fuels, green energy, and emerging technology companies in the start up through 3rd round phases of business. (more)

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