Cleantech news you might have missed: 21 Jan. 2009
What else is new in cleantech? Following are some headlines you might have missed over the past 24 hours:
- Colorado-based biofuel firm Range Fuels has received an $80 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture to help build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia. The plant is expected to go into operation in 2010.
- The first Zayed Future Energy Prize was awarded to Dipal Chandra Barua, founding managing cirector of Grameen Shakti for his “visionary efforts to bring renewable energy solutions to the rural population of Bangladesh.”
- Newly sworn-in US President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has ordered a halt to all pending regulations enacted in the final weeks of the Bush administration until they can be reviewed by an official appointed or designated by Obama.
- Wal-Mart Mexico announced that it had installed a 174-kilowatt photovoltaic array on a store in Aguascalientes. The 1,056-panel installation is the largest photovoltaic complex in Latin America, the company said.
- Africa Biofuel and Emission Reduction unveiled plans for a biodiesel plant in Tanzania that would use nuts from croton tree fruit as a feedstock. It would be the world’s first biofuel facility to use the nuts as a biofuel source.
- Nippon Oil Corp. said it would begin selling fuel-cell systems for home use in Japan starting in the second quarter of 2010. It expects to sell 10,000 units in the first year.
- Executives with Masdar, a green energy firm based in Abu Dhabi, told Reuters this week that they plan to revisit the economic viability of the proposed 1,000-megawatt London Array wind energy project in the Thames Estuary.
