Latest news 03 July 2010 A plant hire company has signed a two-year deal with a supplier of energy efficient site facilities. Hewden, a specialist in plant hire, signed the deal with one of the world’s leading construction groups, Skanska. The agreement involves the supply of temporary site accommodation across the UK and represents Skanska’s [...]

Latest news 24 June 2010 An energy efficient property in Herefordshire has been nominated in a building excellence award scheme. The Vallets Farmhouse was put forward for the category of Best Individual Dwelling in the regional Local Authority Building Control (LABC) West of England Building Excellence Awards. Described by Herefordshire Council as “an outstanding example [...]

byLee Clippard, University of Texas, AustinPublished: 2010-06-21 Tesax, United States –Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Zhu and his colleagues report [...]

BURNABY, BCSchneider Electric’s Renewable Energies Business knows that it isn’t just about leading the world in developing, manufacturing and marketing advanced power electronic products and systems for renewable markets. It’s about the benefits their sophisticated line of products and solutions provide, and the lives that are affected by them, that truly make the difference. “When [...]

Latest news 19 June 2010 A range of energy efficient homes are to be built in Rackly Way near South Tyneside. Featuring sheltered housing, bungalows and family homes, the development will be designed to keep energy bills low. Councillor Bill Brady, lead member of housing futures at South Tyneside Council, commented: “Providing affordable housing to [...]

Latest news 18 June 2010 Energy efficient improvements are to be fitted in upto 40 council properties in the Birmingham area. The city council announced the move as part of the Green New Deal pilot scheme. “Significant” energy improvements will be made to properties through the use of insulation and small scale renewable energy generation [...]

Latest news 16 June 2010 Edinburgh has opened a new development of affordable energy efficient homes. The buildings were unveiled yesterday (June 14th) at the Western Harbour in Newhaven. Alex Neil, housing minister for Scotland, commented: “This government has invested significant funding to help build these homes and everyone involved in this housing development is [...]

Latest news 15 June 2010 Local families have been offered the chance to buy energy efficient, affordable homes in West Sussex. The site of the former St Giles Day Care Centre now hosts 26 new homes, following a View the Original article Incoming search terms for the article:water climate (1)

Published: 2010-06-11 Munich, Germany –JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. announced this week at Intersolar Europe that it is introducing a new family of high performance solar cells, dubbed “SECIUM.” The SECIUM solar cells enable substantially better spectral response at short wavelengths in comparison to standard solar cells, the company said. “The launch of our SECIUM [...]

Cisco Energy Management Can Now Span Enterprise Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced the Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, a platform to manage all the systems in an enterprise that consume energy, across all the organization’s facilities. Read more on PC World via Yahoo! News Energy bourse launch postponed to give participants time to practice [...]