Living Homes

Living Homes works with leading architects to create lines of homes that feature modern form and functionality and an unprecedented level of healthy/sustainability materials and energy systems.

Company: Living Homes

Wired Magazine: The WIRED LivingHome

World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant in 16 Years

The 64-MW Nevada Solar One will generate up to 134 million kW hours of electricity per year.

Acciona Solar Power, a world leader in the design, development and ownership of solar thermal technologies, has announced that its Nevada Solar One project, the largest-capacity solar power plant built in the world in 16 years and the third-largest of its kind, has begun supplying power to the Nevada Power grid. The plant represents an investment of more than $250 million.

Article: Businesswire

Company: Acciona Solar Power

Smart Fuel Cell To Raise 105 Million

SFC (Smart Fuel Cell) is a Germany based fuel cell systems maker and they announced plans on Friday to sell additional shares in the company during a shift on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The additional shares, once sold, are expected to raise the company an additional €105 million; in the range of $142 million.

Article: h2daily.com 12 May 2007 by OJ Fagbire

Company: SFC Smart Fuel Cell AG

Energy Cabin: Solar and wood pellet heating

Energy Cabins are self contained heating systems that combine solar energy with wood pellet technology for total central heating for any building. They are easily connected to any existing heating system (eg radiators, under floor heating etc.) can completely replace traditional boilers. Each cabin is fitted with a solar thermal system which can provide you with free hot water for six months of the year. Inside an automated pellet boiler and heat store are fitted which provide central heating all year round and hot water in winter.

Company: Energy Cabin

Solar Flight: Balloonist Piccard Gains German Support

Bertrand Piccard, who along with his co-pilot became the first to fly around the world in a hot-air balloon, won financial support from Germany's biggest bank to build a solar-powered aircraft that can fly around the globe.


Article: Bloomberg March 19 By Jacob Greber

Project: Solar Impulse

Immosolar: heating & air-conditioning systems

Making solar energy available throughout the whole year and incorporate it as the main source of energy for heating and air-conditioning systems.

Company: Immosolar

Jatropha: The Cinderella Plant?

Africans used to think jatropha was a worthless bush. Now it may be an important new source of energy.

Article: Newsweek International
By Karen Palmer Feb. 19, 2007




Company: D1Oils
Company: IKF TECH
Company: Worldwide Bio Refineries
Company: Gold Star Biodiesel

MAGENN: Wind turbines go up and away

A Canadian company is developing turbines based on tethered, rotating balloons.


Article: EurekaMagazine.co.uk
13/02/2007 by Tom Shelley



Interview with Fred Ferguson: Treehugger.com
16/12/2005, by Lloyd Alter

Company: Magenn Power Inc.

SUNMACHINE: Wood-Pellets & Sterling engine

Now, as wood can be fuelled, the Stirling engine makes sense also in solid fuel boilers.

Company: Sunmachine Product Animation

Gridpoint: Making the Power Grid Smarter

A project is networking home appliances and thermostats to electricity grids, decreasing utility costs and electricity loads.

Article: Technology Review
May 12, 2006, By Kate Greene

Umbrella Project: Gridwise

Company: Gridpoint

Dow Jones VentureWire
September 27, 2006
Goldman Sachs Backs Smart Grid with $21M for GridPoint

AlgoDyne Ethanol’s Direct-Alcohol-Fuel-Cell Work Prototype Completed

AlgoDyne is actively developing cutting edge DAFC (Direct-Alcohol-Fuel-Cell) technology to be able to produce electricity from ethanol directly. DAFCs generate power from the direct oxidation of alcohol in conjunction with the reduction of oxygen.

Article: Businesswire
February 01, 2007

Company: AlgoDyne

AlgoDyne’s proprietary mico-algae-based (phytoplankton) technology provides a powerful means to produce clean,renewable energy from the continual harvest of bio-mass from Photo-Bioreactors. The end result is the production of ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, electricity, coal and animal feed all in a carbon dioxide neutral way.

Schmack Biogas AG is one of the pioneers in the German biogas sector.

The company has been setting the standard for high-utilisation biogas plants for more than 10 years now.

Company: Schmack Biogas AG

Beacon Power: Making Electrical Grids More Efficient

A new way to keep the juice flowing steadily.

Article: Technoloy Review
August 10, 2006, By Peter Fairley

Company: Beacon Power

Solix Biofuels & Live Fuels: Algae-Based Fuels Set to Bloom

Oil from microorganisms could help ease the nation's energy woes.

Article: Technology Review
February 05, 2007, By KevinBullis

Company:Solix Biofuels
Company:Live Fuels

Great Point Energy: Cheaper Natural Gas from Coal

Great Point says that its catalytic process could put coal back in your basement.

Article: Technology Review
January 30, 2007, By Peter Fairley

Company: Great Point Energy

Suzlon: Breakthrough Latin America Order

225 MW Order to Double Brazil’s National Capacity






Article: Suzlon Press Release (.pdf)
October 13, 2006

Company: Suzlon Energy

About Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Suzlon Energy Ltd. (Suzlon) is the world’s largest wind turbine generator (WTG) manufacturer in terms of market capitalization. The Company has been ranked the 5th leading WTG manufacturer in the world an the largest in India and Asia in terms of market share in 2005. In India, the Company has been the market leader for eight years consecutively, installing 53% of the capacity added in 2005.

Nanosolar: Large-Scale, Cheap Solar Electricity

A well-financed California startup is promising to build a solar-cell factory that could finally make solar power affordable.

Article: Technology Review
June 23, 2006, By Kevin Bullis

Company: Nanosolar

About Nanosolar

Nanosolar is the world leader in solar power innovation. We are setting the standard for affordable clean electricity with solar-cell technology of distinctly superior cost efficiency, versatility, and availability.

Solar Millennium: Financing granted to Andasol 2

The second parabolic trough power plant in Europe

Construction of the 300 million euro project to begin within weeks

Solar electricity for 200,000 people

Partnership with Spain’s largest construction company

Company & Article: Solarmillenium
Erlangen/Madrid, Dec. 28th, 2006

About Solar Millennum AG:
Solar Millennium AG is an innovative project development and technology company in the renewable energy sector which is active around the world. Together with its subsidiaries and partners, Solar Millennium AG plans and constructs solar thermal power plants, and has specialized in two technologies in this field. Firstly, it is a technology provider for parabolic trough power plants, a proven and reliable technology in which Solar Millennium is regarded a world leader. Further, the company develops solar chimney power plants with the objective to make this technology marketable. The main focus of current projects is Spain, the USA and China.

About the technology:
Solar thermal power plants generate electricity using the heat captured from solar radiation. In a parabolic trough power plant, trough-shaped mirrors focus the incident solar radiation onto a pipe in the focal line of the collector. A heat transfer medium in the pipe is heated, and this generates steam in the power block section using heat exchangers. The steam is then used to operate a turbine which generates electricity in the same way as in conventional power plants. Integration of a thermal storage system means the availability of the electricity can be planned. Therefore, the solar power plants can also generate electricity after sunset.