A unit of Duke Energy Corp. wants to spend about $100 million to install solar panels to generate electricity at as many as 850 sites.
The proposal, filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, aims to install the panels at schools, homes, stores and factories.
If approved, Duke Energy Carolinas would spend two years installing the panels, [...]

Houston Lake Mining Inc. is pleased to report it has completed the second half of a 5,008 metre (16,426 ft.) diamond drill program on its West Cedartree Gold Project. As the Company awaits assay results, it has begun a new summer exploration program at West Cedartree.
The second half of the spring 2008 program was initiated [...]

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. says its German solar partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, won a $17 million contract from Sunworx GmbH for the supply of high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic solar modules. Sunworx will take delivery of the modules this year.
Quantum and Asola recently announced plans to triple solar module production capacity [...]

Duke Energy Corp. said Wednesday it plans to buy all the power generated at a massive solar power plant to be built north of Charlotte.
The Charlotte-based utility is expected to purchase more than 16 megawatts of power from SunEdison LLC, a Maryland company that is one of the nation’s leading providers of solar-produced energy. The [...]

Alternative energy company Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. says its German partner will boost solar module manufacturing capacity for its European systems to meet growing demand.
Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH will lift its capacity to 45 megawatts peak power annually and will build a new plant.
Quantum said it is in talks to [...]

Spanish power company Iberdrola SA said Sunday it plans to invest $8 billion in renewable energy in the U.S. between 2008 and 2010.
The company said in a news release it wants to have a 15 percent share of the wind power market in the U.S. by 2010.
Iberdrola added it had a wind power production capacity [...]

Trina Solar Ltd. signed a long-term polysilicon supply agreement with Jupiter Corp. Ltd., an affiliate of DTK Industries (Qingdao) Co., Ltd.
Both companies are based in China.
Qingdao DTK will supply Trina Solar with enough polysilicon to make about 650 megawatts of solar modules over six years. Delivery of polysilicon at predetermined prices is expected to start [...]

Mesa Power, a renewable energy company founded by billionaire Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, placed an order for 667 wind turbines from General Electric Co. as part of a $2 billion startup of what is slated to become the world’s largest wind farm.
“You find an oilfield, it peaks and starts declining, and you’ve got to [...]

State-run NTPC Ltd , India’s top power producer, is looking to buy majority stakes in Indonesian coal mines with reserves of up to 300 million tonnes to secure supplies and manage costs, its chairman said on Monday.
Another government company, Power Trading Corp , also announced plans to buy coal mines in Indonesia, following the footsteps [...]

Indonesia has denied that it will set a quota for coal exports as it wants to reserve the coal for future use.
The reports had prompted rising interest in the country’s natural resources from energy-hungry China and India.
The reports were baseless and the new mining law likely to be passed by Parliament by June would in [...]