A new, affordable, easy-to-use, solar-powered device to measure blood pressure could soon hit the open market and help ease cardiovascular disease that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is pumping freely through low income countries.
On Tuesday, Dow earned Underwriters Laboratories (UL) safety certification for its Powerhouse Solar Shingle that the company expects to generate $5 billion in revenue by 2015.
Sopogy – a Honolulu-based company that pioneered Micro-Scaled Concentrating Solar Power (MicroCSP) – will partner with Keahole Solar Power and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to build the Kalaelola Solar One Plant in western Honolulu.
Del Mar Farms in northern California’s Stanislaus County – a supplier of produce to Californians up and down the state – will now offset over 90 percent of its annual energy consumption with solar energy.
The company has agreed to terms with General Motors in which Envision will build two different types of solar carports that will provide powering stations for Chevy’s Volt that’s ready to hit the market this December.
After repeatedly denying it aims to compete with a solar shingle product set to be released in 2011 by Dow Chemical, Dupont, which currently manufactures secondary solar materials, hinted to Reuters on Monday that it may be stepping up to the challenge after all. The heat was put on Dupont last year when Dow, which [...]
One incentive sure to be discussed is the state’s Renewable Energy Tax Incentives Program that offers two main benefits to companies willing to open manufacturing plants in Arizona: a refundable income tax credit of up to 10 percent and a reduction on real and personal property taxes of up to 75 percent.
The company approached Mooradians Furniture in upstate New York about installing solar energy systems atop two of Mooradians locations – one in Albany and one in Clifton Park – that together will save the company $500,000 in utility bills over the next 20 years.
