Champion Bear Resources Ltd. has commenced drilling the first of three holes in a planned 1,200 metre drilling program and geotechnical surveys on the southern portion of its Iron Mask property.
The drilling targets two previously identified Sudbury breccia outcrop areas with anomalous Cu mineralization where grab samples assayed 1,140 and 2,000 ppm Cu, respectively, [...]

Oriental Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce the grant of three uranium exploration and mining licenses known as Daejeon 80 (Reg. No. 77073), Geumsan 81 (Reg. No. 77072) and Goisan 116 (Reg. No. 77074) in the Ogcheon region of South Korea.
These are the second set of uranium licenses granted to a foreign company in South [...]

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 [...]

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd., which makes solar products, received a contract from Belgium-based Enfinity Management BVBA to supply solar modules.
The agreement, financial terms of which were not disclosed, calls for China-based Yingli to supply 10 megawatts of solar modules, or packages of solar cells.
The contract, which runs from this month through the end [...]

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. signed a long-term agreement to purchase wind energy from the Arlington Wind Power Project LLC, a subsidiary of Horizon Wind Energy LLC. Horizon will deliver 240 gigawatt hours of renewable wind energy annually to PG&E customers in northern and central California.
The Rattlesnake Road Wind Power Project is currently under construction [...]

Canadian Solar Inc. signed a a 10-year supply contract with solar wafer maker LDK Solar Co., strengthening a two-year-old tie between the companies.
LDK is expected to ramp up production later this year.
The new supply deal, which is in addition to an agreement signed in October, calls for China-based LDK to supply 800 megawatts of solar [...]

Duke Energy Corp. will buy privately held Catamount Energy Corp. for $240 million, plus assumed debt, to bolster its wind energy generation capability.
Duke bought the Rutland, Vt.-based renewable energy company from private-equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings LLC.
Catamount currently operates facilities providing 300 megawatts of renewable energy.
In May 2007, Duke bought Austin, Texas-based Tierra Energy, which [...]

BP PLC broke ground for a wind farm in Kansas. The first phase of the project, located about 60 miles southwest of Wichita, is expected to generate up to 100 megawatts of electricity starting at the end of the year.
Once the turbines are in place, utility Westar Energy Inc. will own 50 percent of the [...]