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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.

Konstanz/Germany - Sunways AG has announced changes to the management team of Sunways Production GmbH: at the company´s wholly-owned subsidiary in Arnstadt/Thüringen, high-quality mono- and multicrystalline silicon solar cells are produced by approx. 150 employees.

Beijing, China - Vestas has received another order of 49 MW from Ningxia Hanas New Energy Company.

Zurich, Switzerland - ABB has achieved another significant milestone with the commissioning of the Xiangjiaba-Shanghai project, the world’s first UHVDC (ultrahigh-voltage direct current) transmission link to go into commercial operation.

Zurich, Switzerland – The technology group ABB has won an order worth around $700 million from the German transmission grid operator transpower to supply an 800 MW power link that will connect more offshore wind farms in the DolWin1cluster, located in the North Sea to the mainland German grid.

Randers, Denmark - The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will establish a new sales office in Chile, which will be located in the country’s capital, Santiago de Chile. This new office shall strengthen Vestas’ commitment to promote wind power and to develop new business opportunities in the country. Vestas Chile will be responsible for all activities within sales, installation and service of wind power plants in the country.

Nairobi, Kenia - In 2009, for the second year in a row, both the US and Europe added more power capacity from renewable sources such as wind and solar than from conventional sources like coal, gas and nuclear.

Pune, India - Suzlon Energy has won a repeat order from Siddhayu Ayurvedic Research Foundation Private Limited – a Baidyanath group company.

Freiburg, Germany - Solar-Fabrik AG drove up sales in Q2-2010 by ca. 90% to ca. EUR 64 Mio compared to EUR 34 Mio in Q1-2010, leading to EUR 98 Mio revenue in first half 2010. (H1-2009 was EUR 48 Mio.).

Pune, India – The Indian based wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL) has won a order from Serum Institute of India Limited to set up, operate and maintain a 37.8 megawatt (MW) project at Jaibhim in Dhule-Nandurbar wind park in Maharashtra.

Ennepetal, Germany - Perfect Lacquer for Solar Applications. This was the motto of the inauguration of Alanod-Solar’s new solar factory now celebrated in an architecturally demanding hall in Ennepetal.