POET Plans to Cut Water Use
US - POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22 per cent over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability iniative, Ingreenuity.

Statkraft Opens First Solar Park in Italy
ITALY - Norwegian power generator Statkraft has opened its first solar power plant, Casale in Aprilia, Italy.

SunEdison to Build Europe's Largest Solar Plant
ITALY - SunEdison has received final approval from the Italian government to build a 72MW photovoltaic solar power plant in Northeastern Italy, near the town of Rovigo.

ABB Wins $30 Million Solar Order in Spain
SPAIN - Power and automation technology group, ABB, has won a $30 million order from GA Solar, part of the Gestamp Corporation, for a 13MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant in northern Spain.

Ontario’s Landmark Green Energy Plan Delivers
CANADA - The future will be brighter for many businesses in Ontario as more than 500 new green energy projects, most of them solar power installations, have been approved.

Order for Waste-to-Energy Plant on Sint Maarten
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES - Waste2Energy Holdings has received an order for preliminary engineering and layout design from Terra Navita Inc for a 300 tonnes per day waste-to-energy plant on the Caribbean...

AMSC Receives $10 million Order from China
CHINA – American Superconductor Corporation has received an order for $10 million worth of wind turbine core electrical components from China’s CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute...

CNPV in Partnership with Techbank
CHINA - CNPV Solar Power SA, a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products has joined forces with South Korean photovoltaic company, Techbank Company Limited.

Wind Farm Expansion Under Way
JAMAICA - Work started this week on Jamaica's $49 million Wigton Wind Farm expansion project.

Imperium Resumes Production of Biodiesel
US - Imperium Renewables has restarted production at its Grays Harbor plant, which had called a halt to production after a glycerin tank ruptured in December.

First Solar in Power Deal with PG&E
US - First Solar has reached a power purchase agreement to supply Pacific Gas and Electric Company with renewable electricity from a 300MW photovoltaic solar power plant that it is developing...

SunPower and K6 Partner on Two Solar Plants
ITALY - SunPower Corp. and K6 S.a.S. have joined forces to build two 1MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants in the Puglia region, Italy. The two plants are located in Casamassima and Conversano...

ClearFuels to Develop Tennessee Biomass Plant
US – ClearFuels Technology and Hughes Hardwood International have put forward plans to develop a commercial scale biorefinery to produce renewable jet or diesel fuel.

Vikram Invests in Solar PV Plant
INDIA - - Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, is to inaugurate the Solar Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing Plant of Vikram Group of Industries at Falta, Special Economic...

Algae Will Be Local
US – OriginOil president and CEO, Riggs Eckelberry, will join a distinguished panel of speakers to kick off the Algae World Summit in San Diego, California, on 18 May.

Funds for University Wind Turbine Research
US - The University of Dayton Research Institute and their partners in a number of wind-energy programs funded by state, federal and private sources have been awarded $270,000 in Ohio Third Frontier...

Sinoma to Build Wind Farm in Gansu
CHINA - China National Materials Group Corporation Ltd or Sinoma, an enterprise administered by the central government, has signed a strategic agreement with the Jilin government to build a pilot...

Vestas Signs Contract for 34 MW in Italy
ITALY - Wind power company, Vestas, has received an order for the Maida project in Italy consisting of 17 V90-2.0MW wind turbines to be installed in the Calabria region.

China Wind Power Expands in 2010
CHINA - The China Wind Power Group has had consolidated revenue of HK$562,597,000 for the first nine months of the fiancial year.

Acciona Wins Mexican Wind Farm Contract
MEXICO - Three wind farms with a capacity of 304.2MW are to be built in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Biofuel Station Opened in Queenstown
NEW ZEALAND - The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority has thas launched New Zealand's first public biodiesel consortium and refuelling facility at Queenstown.

Biofuel from Euglena
JAPAN - Japanese oil company, Nippon Oil and Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Plant Technologies have joined forces to develop jet fuel from a single celled pond and lake organism, Euglena.

Konarka in Collaboration with Konica Minolta
US - Konarka Technologies isd to form an R&D collaboration and strategic investment agreement with Konica Minolta Holdings.

First Wind Farm for Venezuela
VENEZUELA - The first wind farm in Venezuela will be installed in June and July this year.

Gail's Gujarat Wind Farm on Line in April
INDIA - Indian gas company Gail India is building a wind farm in Gujarat in its first step into commercial power generation.