Energy Conversion Devices Inc. will supply solar cell laminates to General Motors Corp. for the world’s largest rooftop power generation system.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The company’s UNI-Solar thin-film flexible solar laminates will be installed this fall at a 2 million-square foot car plant in Figueruelas, Zaragoza, Spain.
The rooftop system will have about [...]

Shares of solar power companies rose after German lawmakers reached a tentative agreement on a smaller reduction in state subsidies to solar companies than some investors feared.
Lawmakers agreed to cut the nation’s so-called feed-in tariff by 8 percent in 2009 and 2010, and 9 percent for each subsequent year. The law requires utilities to buy [...]

Nothing but blue skies for shares of many solar products makers, as a Citi Investment Research analyst said prospects look good for continuation of government solar tax credits.
Analyst Timothy M. Arcuri said in a client note that his “contacts indicate the House Ways and Means Committee is likely to propose a new bill that will [...]

SyncWave Energy Inc. (SEI) announces SyncWave Power Resonator, a radically new approach to capturing the energy in Ocean Waves with frequency-based technology. SyncWave is a free-floating, self-reacting point-absorber system that is expected to dramatically improve the economics of wave energy. The energy and climate change dilemma has highlighted the costs and impacts of conventional non-renewable [...]

FuelCell Energy, Inc., a manufacturer of electric power generation plants announced Monday it has finalized terms with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a $36.2 million Phase I award to develop a coal-based, multi-megawatt, solid oxide fuel cell-based (SOFC) hybrid system.
The award provides funding for the first stage of the 10-year, three-phased Fuel Cell [...]

Hydrogen, the ultimate clean fuel, may not be very suitable as a conduit of renewable energy because it is wasteful and there are better alternatives, scientists said last week.
One reason hydrogen is embraced by politicians like US President George W Bush is that it promises a source of power for cars and buildings that emits [...]