In December, scientists at Sandia National Laboratories announced their development of tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells. 

Earlier this fall, Proulx Oil & Propane announced it’s partnership with Alliance AutoGas to offer conversion New Hampshire's public and private vehicle fleets from conventional gasoline to propane gas. 

Proterra is a pioneering innovator and manufacturer of zero emission commercial transportation solutions from city transit buses to class 4-8 trucks, recently announced its role in a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) pilot project designed to test an end-to-end clean hydrogen energy cycle.

This summer, Powr-Flite introduced its Diamabruse Multi-Step Concrete Floor Polishing System, a new device that promises to leave your floors looking their best and do it in an environmental-friendly way. 

Two companies have announced a partnership that could lead to significant reductions in the energy loss in the AC/DC conversion process experienced in the provision of power for information and communications technology (ICT) equipment. Lineage Power Corp. will be testing the new technologies in five central office facilities of Verizon Communications.

Earlier this Fall, two hundred leading experts and innovators in the United States gathered to discuss Clean Energy and Transformative Change.  This summit was the beginning of a six month process to create a plan to end US electricity’s use of carbon-based energy sources by the year 2020.

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, enough energy is being produced to light up half a million homes.  It’s the kinetic energy produced by approximately 250 million vehicles traveling an estimated 6.3 billion miles every day in the U.S. alone.  

Current solar films are typically manufactured using expensive and slow manufacturing methods which rely on high-temperature, high-vacuum processes to coat support surfaces with a thin layer of anti-reflective silicon nitrate.

Industrial Nanotech plans to launch the Nansulate RF-IC, Nansulate RF-M, and the Nansulate RF-R during the company’s third quarter.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur performed tests confirming that the majority of drinking water available to citizens of India contains toxins hazardous to human health. Contaminated drinking water has been linked to 1.8 million deaths a year due to diarrheal diseases. These toxic chemicals in drinking water can also cause gene mutations leading to neurological disorders, mental and physical disabilities.

i.Tech Dynamac’s SolarCharger 906 is a portable-solar powered charger for mobile phones and other handheld devices.

Capstone Turbine Corp., maker of microturbines for electric vehicles, will be showcasing its C30 microturbine engine off this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Effective January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be regulating industrial facilities whose yearly emissions exceed 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide. This will be the first time large emitters of heat-trapping emissions will be required to collect the carbon dioxide.

Water quality problems and energy demands are closely linked, and continue to escalate in the US and throughout the world. Currently about 7% of world energy, and 4% of US energy, is used to treat and transport water. There is an increased need for the improvement of water quality in lakes, estuaries, portable water reservoirs and water storage facilities.

The Gatsby Hollywood, a newly opened Smarthome™ community, is making waves in green building designs. Bringing sustainable homes to the public continues California’s progress in sustainable buildings.

Innovative Ion battery technology will be used to better manage peak demand energy needs by the Portland General Energy (PGE) program.

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") today announces that it will deploy a specialized autonomous PowerBuoy designed for use by the US Navy. The PowerBuoy will be lifted into the water by crane and towed to an open ocean testing site located approximately 70 miles southeast of Atlantic City.

Japan’s Denso Corporation has come out with a new battery monitoring unit for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles that they say is simpler and cheaper to produce than voltage control devices used in laptop computers and other hardware.

Groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology is on the verge of commercialization by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) and the Whole Energy Fuels Corporation. Whole Energy will be receiving global exclusive licensing rights to EERC’s technology, which converts biomass and recycled materials into liquid biofuels.

In December, AlumiFuel Power, Inc announced that with the help of its manufacturing partner, Apex Piping Systems, API’s PBIS-1000 was ready for mass production and generators would be ready for delivery early this year.