BP Wind Energy today announced full commercial operation of Phase I of the Sherbino Wind Farm in Pecos County in west Texas. The first 150 megawatts (MW) of the project, which has a potential capacity of 750 MW, has been built through a 50-50 joint venture agreement with Padoma Wind Power LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy Inc.

As Raser Technologies, Inc. gears up to complete its first distributed geothermal project in Utah, the company announced yesterday that it has received the final US $21 million tax equity payment that will play a large part in financing its 10-megawatt (MW) Thermo geothermal power project.

SCHOTT Solar announced today that it will unveil a new 225 watt polycrystalline photovoltaic module at the Solar Power International show in San Diego, California. The new product shall be manufactured at the company’s North American flagship solar manufacturing facility, currently under construction in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will be sold under the brand-name SCHOTT Solar Poly 225 and will complement the 310 watt module currently manufactured at SCHOTT Solar’s Billerica, Massachusetts facility.

SCHOTT Solar today announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply contract with AEE Solar to supply the company with over 5 MW of multicrystalline photovoltaic modules. AEE Solar has been a wholesaler of SCHOTT Solar modules in the United States since 1998.

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Interactive energy audit websites which allow you to reduce home energy costs (such as the free one offered by the U.S. Department) are now commonplace, but today Friends of the Earth Scotland launched what they call a “unique online service to blow away the myths and uncertainties surrounding generating renewable energy at home” – in other words, microgeneration or micropower.

Homeowners can go to their Micropower Audit website and answer a series of simple questions about th…

Here’s a little mystery to solve – a tub of sour cream purchased at Whole Foods yesterday. Right, it’s a week past the expiration date, this being in addition to to getting credited with a double-counting of packaged walnuts at the checkout. Granted, it’s nothing that an hour in a car back-and-forth to the claims counter won’t solve for full money back, no questions asked, and of course I’ll always have the memories. Somehow though, it drew a great want and the issue needed to be resolved – whyzizzit that supermarkets sell expired food, fail to bag, or ring up the purchases incorrectly? Here’s why.

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