Tower Tech Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadwind Energy, Inc. has signed a framework agreement to supply wind turbine towers to a subsidiary of Gamesa Technology Corporation, Inc., for its North American projects.

Inverter company Xantrex Technology Inc. has announced it has received an order valued at more than US $1.5 million from Anbelo Solar S.L. for its 5-kilowatt single phase grid-tie solar inverters.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun implementing its new process for geothermal lease applications by accepting nominations and scheduling land sales.

A debate between advocates of distributed and centralized renewable energy systems is just beginning. It is overdue. Consideration of scale in renewable energy systems has been delayed in part because we first had to bring solar energy in all its forms to market, and in part because the distributed nature of renewable energy resources seemed inexorably to lead to their being harnessed in distributed fashion.

Mr. Lynch, with all the volatility in solar stocks you have certainly been correct in your comments about solar stocks “not being for the faint of heart.” Boy, you were not kidding, this is certainly a traders market. I took your advice and took profits and stepped to the side line — thanks. My question is: are there any specific areas of the solar industry that I could keep an eye out for that could be promising areas for the future? Thanks, C. Medeot — London, England.

SolCool One, LLC and its manufacturing partner, Senergy Cooling Systems, delivered the first Millennia Sustainable DC (direct current) air conditioning/heating system to JusAlt, Inc., the wholesale distribution HUB for the Millennia in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 1.5 ton, 18,000 BTU split version of the Millennia in the Greater Las Vegas Valley demonstrates how the built in smart charger uses renewable, direct current (DC) and/or alternate current (AC) grid sources to charge on-board deep cell batteries that power its 24 or 48 volt internal system.

Novato-based SolarCraft announced today it has completed the design and installation of a 31 kW solar electric system for Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Santa Rosa.

Following the sold out Wall Street Green Trading Summit’s preconference seminar, the popular introduction to carbon trading and finance seminar is now offered again on May 21st in New York City. Over 600 people have attended this seminar during the past year. Peter Fusaro brings fresh information on the ever changing carbon finance markets.

NanoMarkets has released the first chapter from its soon-to-be released report in the organic photovoltaics market. Persons interested in accessing the document may do so by visiting the firm’s website at http://www.nanomarkets.net/products/prod_detail.cfm?prod=9&id=253.

“There are enormous quantities of naturally occurring greenhouse gasses trapped in ice-like structures in the cold northern muds and at the bottom of the seas. These ices, called clathrates, contain 3,000 times as much methane as is in the atmosphere. Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.

Now here’s the scary part. A temperature increase of merely a few degrees would cause these gases to volatilize and “burp” into the atmosphere, which would further raise temperatures, which would release yet more methane, heating the Earth and seas further, and so on. There’s 400 gigatons of methane locked in the frozen arctic tundra-enough to start this chain reaction-and the kind of warming the Arctic Council predicts is sufficient to melt the clathrates and release these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”