News you might have missed: 10 March 2009
We here at Greenbang watch for news and developments in the cleantech sector ’round the clock so you don’t have to. Following are a few recent headlines you might have missed:
- The Canadian government recently announced $53 million (Canadian) in funding for 16 new clean technology projects;
- Solar Power Partners has begun operations at three new solar-energy facilities in California with a total generating capacity of more than two megawatts;
- Earth2Tech reports that Norwegian automaker Th!nk plans to make its electric cars available in the US starting next year;
- Bronze Oak Philippines has announced plans for two sugarcane-based bioethanol plants in the country;
- Consumers Energy this week completed a 600-kilowatt upgrade at its Hardy Dam facility in Michigan;
- mPhase Technologies says it hopes to garner some of the $2 billion included in the US economic stimulus plan for the development of advanced battery technologies.
