The European Investment Bank and the Palestine Investment Fund announced on Friday a loan agreement worth $ 18 million to finance the installation of rooftop solar PV systems on 500 public schools in the West Bank.
The US Dept. of Energy bets another $ 25 million on marine energy R&D, eyeballing a potential clean power payoff of 1,400 terrawatt-hours per year
According to a report from E2, 1.8 million American clean energy jobs are located in the top 50 metro areas. They represent 58% of America’s total 3.2 million clean energy jobs. Every one of the top 50 metro areas employs over 10,000 clean energy workers. Michael Timberlake, the Communications Director for E2, answered some questions for CleanTechnica about the clean energy industry.
ABB has won a $ 330 million contract to supply new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converters that will enable the efficient transmission of electricity from hydroelectric power plants in Tajikistan to consumers in Pakistan
The fracking and petrochemical industries have teamed up to dump … The goal: convert the Appalachian region into a petrochemical rival to the Gulf Coast. This could turn the upper Ohio River Valley …
The latest study by GTM Research finds there will be as many as 40,000,000 public and private EV chargers globally by the year 2030. Its assessment is based on a belief that EVs will represent 11% of the cars on the road by that date, according to coverage in PV Magazine
Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi Solar announced last week that it has signed a $ 600 million supply agreement with an unnamed major US power plant developer for the company’s high-efficiency monocrystalline modules.
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Deadly strain of mutated bird flu 'could kill 300 million people'
Plymouth Herald The last pandemic hit in 2009-10 when swine flu emerged in Mexico, while the deadly Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 claimed up to 100 million lives. Also known as avian flu, three strains have caused concern in recent years – H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6. Of those … Mutated bird flu strain 'could kill 300 million people' Killer flu pandemic 'could hit any time' – wiping out 300 MILLION … Killer flu pandemic 'could hit tomorrow' and kill more than 300 million people across the world, scientist warns |
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'About 250 million years old:' UWM geologists discover fossil forests in Antarctica
fox6now.com MILWAUKEE — A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher says Antarctica used to look a lot like Wisconsin does today — with trees and forests, and he can prove it! To the untrained eye, it looks like a regular rock. Erik Gulbranson, Ph.D. "We … |
The Netherlands-based electric vehicle fast-charging network developer and operator Fastned has raised a further €12.3 million in funding in just 10 days through the public issue of bonds, according to a new press release
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