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NASA's MODIS instrument Captures Visible Image of Tropical Storm Olga

Residents of the northern coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory and NASA's Aqua satellite have seen new life "blown into" a low pressure system that is once again Tropical Storm Olga

28 Jan 2010

SEKO Worldwide Installs 143-Panel PV System at its Portland, Oregon Facility

SEKO Worldwide – a global provider of supply-chain solutions, including comprehensive transportation, logistics and IT offerings – announced that its Portland, Ore. facility recently installed a 31-kilowatt, 143-panel solar voltaic system to supply the vast majority of its electricity needs.

28 Jan 2010

Cooper Lighting Releases Numerous LED Outdoor Products

Setting the industry benchmark for optical performance and reliability

28 Jan 2010

Cenergy Power Creates Unit in Vietnam to Handle Operations in Southeast Asia

Cenergy Power, a leading commercial solar developer in California, today announced the legal formation of a Vietnam-based subsidiary focusing on utility-scale solar power development and project-level human capital build-up in Southeast Asia.

28 Jan 2010

Columbia University, Ascent Scientific Enter License Deal for Optical Imaging Probe

Columbia University and Ascent Scientific announced that they have entered into a license agreement for FFN511, a novel fluorescent probe for optical imaging and measurement of synaptic activity in the brain.

28 Jan 2010

Suntech Plans to Set its First US Manufacturing Facility in Arizona

From the AZ4Solar Symposium today, Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that the company's first U.S. manufacturing plant will be located in the City of Goodyear, Arizona.

28 Jan 2010

AAL Announces New Providence LED Luminaires Featuring MicroEmitter Technology

Architectural Area Lighting (AAL), a leading provider of architectural outdoor fixtures for the commercial, architectural and municipal building markets, unveils Providence® LED as part of their new Designer SSL Series of high performance area luminaires featuring exclusive MicroEmitter™ technology.

28 Jan 2010

T-Solar Enters Partnership to Develop 120 MWp Solar Plants in France

Spanish T-Solar Group, a leader in the South of Europe in the photovoltaic electric power generation market - in terms of installed capacity - has just sealed an agreement with French Global Ecopower to jointly develop 120 MWp in France over the next three years.

28 Jan 2010

LDK Solar to Deliver 30MW Solar Modules to COU Solar

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar"; NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to supply solar modules to Canada based COU Solar ("COU"), a subsidiary of Oneworld Energy Inc. ("Oneworld"). Under terms of the agreement, LDK Solar will deliver approximately 30 megawatts (MW) of solar modules to COU/Oneworld in 2010.

28 Jan 2010

Telops Launches Two New Hyperspectral Infrared Cameras

Telops, a company specialized in the design and production of hyperspectral infrared cameras announced today that it has developed its own line of advanced infrared cameras.

28 Jan 2010

Collective Photonics Research and Commercialization Resources at Opportunities in Solar PV and LED Lighting

Attracted by a $1 trillion cleantech opportunity and the world's largest category for venture capital investment, economic development executives from Berlin, Ottawa and Tucson are gathering today in San Francisco at the Photonics West trade show.

27 Jan 2010

Kyocera Launches New Laser Printer and Color Multifunctional System

Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced the launch of the FS-C8500DN color laser printer and the TASKalfa 552ci color multifunctional system. Encompassing the ultra-reliability, unsurpassed performance and proven color technology businesses demand, these new devices offer highly productive output speeds, affordability and flexible output capabilities for any office environment.

27 Jan 2010

Elliot Scientific Signs Distribution Agreement with AKELA Laser Corp

Elliot Scientific is pleased to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with AKELA Laser Corporation of Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

27 Jan 2010

Outlook on 3D TV Market

With the increasing number of 3D movies, 3D technology featuring the use of special glasses could stimulate the demand for 3D content in the home. The use of 3D technology in home applications is emerging.

27 Jan 2010

Researchers Discover Fast Optical Packet Switching with Less Power Consumption

The January issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes an ultra-small and fast, electrically pumped all-optical memory on a silicon chip with record low power consumption. This result achieved by imec and its associated laboratory INTEC at the Ghent University, paves the way for optical packet switching with drastically reduced overall power consumption in high-speed, high-data rate optical telecommunication systems.

27 Jan 2010