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Sixteen schools in the Bay State will be getting more than $3 million from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust for their efforts in green. The funding is being awarded to nine schools for solar power arrays; six schools for green school design assistance; and one school for green school design assistance and a solar power array.
Solar power technology company Evergreen Solar Inc. has put the finishing touches on deals with Jiawei Solarchina Co. Ltd., and the government of Wuhan province’s Hubei Science & Technology Investment Co. Ltd. to build a manufacturing plant in the city of Jiawei, China.
Solar power technology company Evergreen Solar Inc. has put the finishing touches on deals with Jiawei Solarchina Co. Ltd., and the government of Wuhan province’s Hubei Science & Technology Investment Co. Ltd. to build a manufacturing plant in the city of Jiawei, China.
While many scientists have recently ridden the industry wave into studying alternative fuels, Qteros Inc.’s new CTO Kevin Gray has been immersed in the industry for decades. He entered the field after becoming interested in biofuels for their science, which he found fascinating, and because of the global impact of fossil fuels.
LEED Linc teaches LEED concepts and practices to corporations and individuals preparing for the LEED Accredited Professional exam who don’t have the resources to have LEED staff in-house.
It’s not too hard to get an electric vehicle in New England. Charging it has been another story. That concern — being stranded without a plug in sight — has been a stumbling block to widespread electric-vehicle adoption, even as the speed and range of the vehicles improve.
Energy tech company American Superconductor Corp. reports that Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corp. Ltd. increased the size of its contract to more than $470 million to meet greater demand for its wind turbines in China. That and other deals pushed AMSC to its second profitable quarter in a row.
American DG Energy Inc., a Waltham-based on-site utility provider of electricity, heat, cooling and hot water, reports it has raised $3.5 million from the private placement of stock, to help install more on-site energy systems.
Looking to take the plant matter out of alternative fuels, startup Joule Biotechnologies Inc. is developing a way to generate ethanol from millions of photosynthetic organisms.
Zoning — a concept generally associated with shopping centers and apartment complexes — moved off dry land this month when Massachusetts released a draft of its trend-setting “Ocean Plan,” which will establish zoning for the state’s coastal waters.