Lakeland Electric Signs Historic Agreement to Deploy More Solar Per Customer Than Any Other U.S. Utility

Lakeland Electric and SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, announced a public-private partnership to deploy 24 megawatts of solar. The program will be the largest utility-sponsored photovoltaic (PV) solar program per metered customer in the United States to date, averaging 214 watts per meter among Lakeland Electric’s approximately 112,000 customers. Under the agreement, SunEdison will provide utility-scale solar... Read more..

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Orders Twelve VYCON REGEN(R) Crane Energy Storage Systems

VYCON Inc., the designer and manufacturer of high-speed flywheel based, environmentally friendly energy storage systems, today announced that International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has ordered twelve new Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes from Noell China with VYCON’s fuel and emission saving REGEN energy storage systems for their operations in Manila. ICTSI is one of the top five major maritime terminal operators in the world. The... Read more..

Solland Solar: Solar Energy Breakthrough With Sunweb

Solland Solar, Netherlands’ largest producer of solar cells, will enable the solar energy sector to take a major step forwards with its new Sunweb cell. By concentrating the generated energy to the back of the cell, Sunweb can offer a 2 percent higher output per cell. Processed and connected in a solar module, the output even increases to 9 percent. This is a substantial improvement for the sector. “Metal Wrap Through” Sunweb is... Read more..

Constellation Energy Serves up Wind Power for the 2008 US Open

Constellation Energy announced that its subsidiary, Constellation NewEnergy (CNE), is helping to turn the court green at the 2008 US Open in Flushing, N.Y. CNE will supply an estimated 2,000 Green-e certified wind Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to match the electricity consumption at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for the duration of the US Open held Aug. 25-Sept. 7, 2008. “We’re... Read more..

Progress Energy Carolinas, SunEdison Plan Solar Project at Plant Site

Progress Energy Carolinas and SunEdison have signed an agreement under which SunEdison will build, own and operate a 1.2-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant on the site of the Progress Energy L.V. Sutton Plant near Wilmington and sell the energy produced to the utility for distribution to customers. SunEdison will build the solar PV array on about 10 acres at the existing power plant site, located off Highway 421. Progress Energy will lease the... Read more..