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Jamie Novak, Applied Nanotech, Inc.
January 27, 2012
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One dollar per watt: that's the mark the solar industry is hoping to hit in order to become cost-competitive with conventional energies. In a bid to reach this magic number in the next two years, various Asian manufacturers are striving to reduce costs by increasing volume produc...
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Charles W. Thurston, Contributor
January 26, 2012
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The U.S. geothermal power industry is poised for a bit more rapid growth now that the U.S. Department of Energy's geothermal development program is maturing with demonstration-stage pilots. This acceleration of growth also will be spurred on by an increasing number of municipalit...
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Marsha W. Johnston, Contributor
January 25, 2012
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Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility's control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in earl...
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Russell Ray, Contributing Editor, Hydro Review
January 24, 2012
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Kevin Frank was named chief executive officer and president of Voith Hydro Inc. in November 2010. Frank discusses technology, policy and the factors driving the hydropower market.
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So far, the complaint by American wind tower manufacturers against their competition from Asia has mirrored the solar industry petition filed in October.
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Steve Graff, Contributor
January 20, 2012
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The concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) industry tenaciously pushed through these last four years, and now has 33 megawatts (MW) in the ground, with 60 more expected by mid-year 2012 and about 700 MW more in the pipeline.
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They stand as looming testaments to innovation, growing ever more prominent and powerful. Yet for much of 2011, wind installations remained somewhat obscured, eclipsed by the media storm surrounding the solar industry.
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Amidst a year of frustrating inactivity in the geothermal industry, many are holding hope for a brighter 2012. The industry holds more than 700 MW of projects in its pipeline to be completed before the federal tax credit expires in 2013. One project that has the upper hand in thi...
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ZeaChem launches its 250,000 gallon per year core process. How could this possibly matter in the context of a 500 million gallon cellulosic biofuels target for 2012 that was waived down to 10 million? As it turns out, a lot. The RFS is in much better shape than its critics advert...
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The notable absence from a recent Japanese renewable energy meeting by many political backers — plus blunt comments from some of them — are being interpreted as a sign that Softbank's ambitious plans for multiple megasolar plants are falling apart.
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Jamie Novak, Applied Nanotech, Inc.
January 27, 2012
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One dollar per watt: that's the mark the solar industry is hoping to hit in order to become cost-competitive with conventional energies. In a bid to reach this magic number in the next two years, various Asian manufacturers are striving to reduce costs by increasing volume produc...
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Industry Announcements
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MENASOL 2012
MENA Solar evolution: Seize new opportunities & establish critical foundations to accelerate the success of MENASOLAR
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Ontario Feed-in Tariff Forum
The Ontario Feed-in Tariff Forum is the must-attend gathering for all the key players striving to create successful projects and businesses through the Ontario FIT scheme including FIT contract holder...
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The Future of Transportation
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by 2GreenEnergy.com
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January 26, 2012
Please join us 10 AM PST on Friday, Feb. 10th: "The Future of Transportation," in which I'll be interviewing Dan Sturges.
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Renusol Mounting System Training by groSolar
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by groSolar
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January 26, 2012
Renusol America will be introducing their NEW unique one piece flat roof mounting, the Renusol CS60 and sharing its great new benefits as well as talking about how their pitched roof system, the Renus...
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SolarEdge Product Training by groSolar
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by groSolar
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January 26, 2012
Join us for this SolarEdge training and informational session hosted by groSolar and presented by Jeff Laughy, Product Trainer, SolarEdge.
SolarEdge provides next generation power conversion elect...
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Enphase Product Training Hosted by groSolar
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by groSolar
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January 26, 2012
During this informational presenation hosted by groSolar and presented by Enphase Trainer, Jarett Skeffington, you will learn about the latest additions to the Enphase product line including the Enpha...
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Ironridge Product Training from groSolar
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by groSolar
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January 26, 2012
groSolar stocks and sells IronRidge for your PV mounting needs. Join us for a one hour informational and Q&A session to learn more about this great product growing in popularity.
Register Here:...
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Wind Power Mexico 2012
Wind Power Mexico 2012 returns for its second exciting year on the 15-16 May in Mexico City. Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet key government officials and leading members of the Mexican Wind ...
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Large Commercial & Utility Scale Installation Workshop
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 25, 2012
Join Schletter, REFUsol, Intertek and others for a 2-day workshop in San Diego. This is an event to take your company to the next level of large-scale solar installations.
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Photovoltaics Summit 2012
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Ground Mount Solar
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by RBI Solar Inc.
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January 16, 2012
Our ground mount solar PV mounting systems are designed and engineered for each customer's site specific conditions to minimize the field installation labor and require no field welding, drilling or o...
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Solar Power Conversion
Richardson RFPD offers active and passive components, global design support and
assembly of complete inverter subsystems for solar power energy management.
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Wind Power Conversion
Richardson RFPD offers active and passive components, global design support and
assembly of complete inverter subsystems for wind power energy management.
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Your Design Partner in High-Power (>1kW) Inverter Assemblies & Custom Modules
Richardson RFPD offers global design support and assembly expertise. All of our
inverter assemblies and custom modules are designed and built using power semiconductors
and passive components from t...
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KACO blueplanet 00xi series
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FixZ-7™ Roof Top Mounting System
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 3, 2012
The FixZ-7 is designed for flat trapezoidal sheet metal roofs (less than 10 degree slope). Such roofs are typically ill-equipped to support traditional solar systems. The FixZ-7 is designed to distrib...
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Park@Sol™ Carport System
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 3, 2012
Parking lots are an ideal location for PV systems, allowing power production along with shading of vehicles. The Park@Sol solar carport system is designed to fit specific application requirements for ...
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PVMax™ Gound Mount System
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 3, 2012
Using cast-in-place concrete block foundations, PVMax is a robust ground mount system that installs quickly on challenging terrains – like landfills – while keeping costs low.
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Alugrid™ Roof Top Mounting System
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 3, 2012
AluGrid allows for PV modules to be mounted on flat roofs where the concentration of panels is important and where reduction of loading on the roof is required.
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FS™ Gound Mount System
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by Schletter Inc.
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January 3, 2012
Offering durability, ease of installation, and a high level of pre-assmbled parts, the FS System is an attractive system that requires no concrete foundation and quick installation. Pile driven, the s...
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Ontario Feed-in Tariff Forum to feature key policy and industry experts
The speaker line-up for this year's Ontario Feed-in Tariff Forum has been announced with the province's key government and FIT policy administrators confirmed to speak on April 3-4 in Toronto www.onta...
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The influence of sputtering targets on the manufacturing costs and efficiency of CIGS
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by PLANSEE SE
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January 27, 2012
The sputtering process is the most important technique for material deposition in CIGS-manufacturing. With innovative sputtering targets CIGS producers can significantly reduce their production costs....
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Schletter© Solar Mounting Rails and Quick Mount PV® Composition Roof Mounts Now Compatible
Schletter Inc. and Quick Mount PV, two U.S. manufacturers of solar photovoltaic (PV) mounting systems, announce the Gator Mount, a new product that makes Quick Mount PV's composition roof mounting tec...
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US Solar Industry: The Future of American Jobs, Domestic Energy, Clean Energy Investments
On the heels of a visit from President Obama, the City of Las Vegas will host the 2012 Solar Power Generation USA (www.solarpowergenerationusa.com), the industry's leading large-scale solar power conf...
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Natural Power widens Ecology offerings through partnership with Welsh firm Ecology Matters
Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has signed a framework agreement with Welsh based ecology consultants, Ecology Matters. This agreement widens Natural Power's res...
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SunMaxx Solar and Intelligent Green Solutions Install Solar Thermal System at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia
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Wind energy making new inroads, building on success
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Cantsink Manufacturing Completes 1 MW Project at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
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Announcing the Solar Power Mexico conference
Solar Power Mexico, the only business focused solar conference in Mexico, announced its 2012 lineup of industry leading speakers and full agenda, which aims to tackle the key issues head on to drive t...
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First U.S. tidal energy project receives license
The following is a statement by Linda Church Ciocci, Executive Director of the National Hydropower Association:
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The State of Energy
President Obama held firm in his support of clean energy, energy conservation and energy independence in his state of the union address, even amid vocal and mounting criticism from across the isle. &n...
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Obama: Sticking to "Promise of Clean Energy"
In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reinstated his commitment to renewable energy. Despite the demise of solar manufacturer Solyndra looming over the past year of his t...
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3 Things You Can Do To Create Commercial Solar Thermal Leads
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by Free Hot Water
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January 24, 2012
1) Go to events where your customers are. And by customers, we mean your apartment building owners, hospital administrators, laundromat owners, hotel owners, nursing home owners, and all of the ot...
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Permanent Met. Towers, Part 2: Robust Communications & Power
Earlier this month, I discussed what permanent met tower is and why they matter. Here’s how WindPole is changing the PMT paradigm.
Instead of erecting an expensive 80-100 meter lattice to...
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10 Ways to Share Your Solar Blog and Generate Brand Awareness
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by UnThink Solar
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January 20, 2012
One reason why solar companies don’t blog regularly — or at all — is that they believe that it can be a lot of effort for a small audience that may just happen upon th...
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New Solar-Energy System Generating Power at W&L
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by Standard Solar Inc.
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January 19, 2012
Virginia's largest solar-energy system is now up and running at Washington and Lee University, and visitors to the University's website can watch it working in real time.
"We've been generating elect...
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Flying High with Biofuels
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by Growth Energy
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January 19, 2012
Unrest in the Middle East throughout 2011 not only increased global prices for gasoline but also jet fuel used by commercial airlines and the Department of Defense.
In fact, according to a new Blo...
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MA2011 SREC Auction Closes at $540/SREC
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by SRECTrade, Inc.
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January 18, 2012
The Q3 2011 (July - September 2011) Massachusetts SRECs were issued on January 15, 2012. Unlike other SREC markets, the Massachusetts Solar Carve-Out program mints SRECs quarterly, three and a half mo...
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SunSteer starts production of solar actuators
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by SunSteer
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January 16, 2012
SunSteer has begun production of its new linear actuator manufacturing. Manufacture and assembly will take place in Saginaw MI. These actuators will set a new standard for reliability and cost by l...
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Solar Fred Solar Marketing Tip: What If We Sold Residential Solar Like Cars?
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by UnThink Solar
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January 16, 2012
While solar is making steady progress towards the main stream, it ain’t there yet. Many consumers are still suspicious of solar because it’s unfamiliar. They’ve seen panels and sol...
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Solar System Design & Engineering Manager
Bordentown, New Jersey 4BestSolar, LLC
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Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
Seattle, Boston, or Houston DNV
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Transmission Manager Portland
Portland, Oregon E. ON Climate & Renewables
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Engineering & Power Positions
Chicago, Illinois E. ON Climate & Renewables
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Engineering & Power Positions
Austin, Texas E. ON Climate & Renewables
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PROGRAMMER/WEB GEEK WANTED! (COLUMBUS, OHIO)
Columbus, Ohio altE Store, Inc
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Solar Sales Representative
Melville, New York Leviton Manufacturing
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Technical Solar Sales Consultant
Nashville, Tennessee LightWave Solar Electric, LLC
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Strategic Product Manager - Solar
Fort Collins, Colorado Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
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Vice President, Investment Banking, Energy Sector
Bannockburn, Illinois Marathon Capital
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Energy efficiency in the U.S. is much light and little heat — literally. Government policy pays a great deal of attention to saving electricity, but focuses little on the thermal energy we...
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The New England solar market is extremely strong. But even with these strong existing players, there is still room for more competition and new players enter every day. With that said, there are numbe...
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By
Michael Harris, Online Editor, HydroWorld
January 26, 2012
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The controversy surrounding the proposed removal of four dams along the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California has a new facet following the release of a two new reports by the U.S. ...
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North America is at an inflection point in managing organic materials. Just as paper, metal and plastics were the darlings of the recycling industry a few decades ago, our society is defining a new re...
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Michael Gorton, CEO, Principal Solar and Rebecca Halstead, Brigadier General (US Army, retired), Advisor to Principal Solar
January 26, 2012
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has a tradition of accelerating technological advancements, serving as early adopters and impacting the broader commercial market in such areas as aviation, comput...
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Asia-Pacific markets together added 2.8-gigawatts (GW) of solar PV installations in 4Q11 on the way to a total of 6GW for the entire year, an eye-popping 165% growth, thanks in large part to a massive...
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During the fourteen years that I've lived in Switzerland, the Germans have been the world's staunchest supporters of green power and alternative energy. Their aggressive development of wind power was ...
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Charles W. Thurston, Contributor
January 26, 2012
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With a little help from the government, geothermal energy has the potential to take a much larger share of the renewable energy market in the U.S. in the near future.
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Michael Harris, Online Editor, HydroWorld
January 25, 2012
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State-owned utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) has identified 96 potential hydroelectric power sites in Indonesia, sources report.
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David Ferris, Contributor
January 25, 2012
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When Frank Zammataro thinks about water pressure, he sees an opportunity to create electricity.
Zammataro, 53, is President and Co-Founder of Rentricity—a New York City energy company that has discov...
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