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Berkeley, USA - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has decided to enter another area in the battery world.

Freiburg, Germany - The Executive Board of Solar-Fabrik AG adopted a resolution, with the consent of the Supervisory Board dated July 29, 2010 to increase the capital stock of the company of EUR 11,685,000.00, which is divided into 11,685,000 no-par bearer shares, by up to EUR 1,168,499.00 to a maximum of EUR 12,853,499.00 in exchange for cash contributions.

Madrid/Zamudio, Spain - Gamesa’s Board of Directors has resolved to end the company’s negotiations with Germany’s Bard and to roll out Gamesa’s strategy for the offshore wind market in the short and medium term using in-house resources.

Randers, Denmark - China’s renowned research institution within the energy and electricity industry, State Grid Energy Research Institute (SGERI), and Vestas, have concluded the first part of a “Joint Study on Coordinated Development of Wind Power and the Electricity Grid”.

Tokyo, Japan - Sharp Corporation will double its annual production capacity for crystalline solar cell modules to 500 MW at Sharp Manufacturing Company of U.K. (SUKM), its production base in the UK (Wrexham, Wales).

Washington, USA - The 2009 State of the Climate report released now as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable.

Danbury, USA - FuelCell Energy announced that the underwriters of the Company's public offering of 24.0 million shares of common stock have closed on their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 3.6 million shares of FuelCell Energy common stock and have concluded the offering.

Wellington, New Zealand - Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee has welcomed the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report “Some biofuels are better than others: thinking strategically about biofuels”, which was tabled in Parliament now.

Washington D.C., USA - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy has finalized a $117 million loan guarantee for Kahuku Wind Power, LLC, the owner and operator of the Kahuku Wind Power project.

Baoding, China/Sunnyvale, USA - Yingli Green Energy announced that it has signed a technology, research and production collaboration agreement with Innovalight.

Danburry, USA - FuelCell Energy announced the sale of a 300 kilowatt DFC300 fuel cell power plant and five year service contract. LOGANEnergy, a dedicated fuel cell energy services company, will purchase and install the fuel cell power plant at the frozen food processing facility of Carla's Pasta in South Windsor, CT.

Hamburg - According to initial calculations, REpower Systems Group (Prime Standard, WKN 617 703) generated a total performance of EUR 204.0 million in the first three months of fiscal year 2010/11, compared with a total performance of EUR 287.1 million in the same period of the previous year.

Randers, Denmark - Vestas has received an order from E.ON Vind Sverige AB for delivery of 16 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine.

Washington D.C., USA - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the selections of six projects that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers.

Washington D.C., USA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $5.6 million for emerging technologies projects as part of a summer-long roll out of $120 million in clean diesel grants.

Washington D.C., USA – As part of a broad effort to achieve breakthrough innovations in energy production, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman announced an award of up to $122 million over five years to a multidisciplinary team of top scientists to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.

Hennigsdorf, Germany – The power semiconductor manufacturer Semikron, converter developer and producer PCS Power Converter Solutions GmbH (PCS) and the Technical University of Dresden are the choice partners in the research project “More efficient use of regenerative energies with multi level topologies – EEMT”, a project which will receive around € 1.2 m in backing from the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

Hamburg, Germany - COLEXON Energy AG has secured a 7.2 MWp solar energy system portfolio in the Czech Republic. The project covers a total area of 200,000 m2.

Brussels, Belgium - 118 new offshore wind turbines were fully connected to the grid in the first half of 2010 according to new statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

Madrid/Zamudio, Spain -The Spanish based wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has signed an agreement with Esquilvent, a wind power developer from Castile-Leon for the construction of three wind farms with aggregate capacity of 140.6 MW in the town of Ampudia in Palencia (Castile-Leon, Spain).

Juno Beach, USA NextEra Energy Resources, a generator of wind power, has entered into a power purchase agreement with Google Energy.

Washington, USA - Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods.

Stuttgart - The global engineering and construction company M+W Group has won an order to plan and build a large PV park in Central Italy with an installed capacity of 14.5 MWp. It is located in the province of Macerone (region of Marche).

Berkeley, USA - Can light-colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change? The idea has been around for years.

Munich, Germany - Canadian Solar and Green City Energy have jointly completed a 1 MW installation in the city of Haertensdorf in Saxony, Germany. The solar system, situated in the county of Zwickau, is part of the Burgersolarpark installation.