Motech Renewable Energy in Suzhou, the China-established subsidiary of Motech Industries in Kunshan, has announced that it is currently operating at full capacity and demand for its solar cell technology has topped its on-hand supply. The company plans to balance the surging supply and demand by raising solar cell prices by around 1 to 2 percent. Motech’s Suzhou facility currently holds 65MWp…

The Sears Tower in Chicago, measuring an astounding 1,450 feet, will be given a $350 million green retrofit to turn the 110 story structure into a sustainable, conservational place of business. The project plans require the tower to decrease energy utilization by 80 percent and water consumption by 40 percent. To achieve these goals, title-holder American Landmark Properties and associates plan on exchanging the structure’s 16,000 tinted single pane windows to form a thermal break between…

Over the past decade, the renewable energy sector has grown at a solid pace; accumulating new green jobs at more than twice the normal rate, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts. “The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments across America” report shows a first ever tally of actual green jobs, venture capital investments and companies which supply…

Assembly Bill 522 was recently proposed to initiate a Nevada State Energy Commission, which will help educate the public about saving energy, ease and accelerate thegreen-energy-nevada permit/lease process developers need from the Federal Bureau of Land Management to begin renewable energy, collect information about the companies to certify they meet tax decrease specifications and manage rebate programs for renewable energy development ventures. Previously, such duties…

Southern California Edison recently signed a power purchase agreement with eSolar, engineers of scalable solar thermal power plants, to construct 245 megawatts (MW) of concentrating solar power (CSP) manufacturing units throughout So Cal. eSolar has received $130 million in new investment funds from technology giant, Google, as well as other eager venture capitalists to apply toward construction of this mega-scale solar tower project. The development will be built…