Dallas, Texas (TechWire.ca) – October 18, 2011 – In the same month Forbes Magazine rated Canada as the world’s top country for business, executives from the Ontario Clean Technology Alliance are attending Solar Power International in Dallas to invite environmental technology companies from around the world to participate in the Province of Ontario’s clean technology revolution. [...]

Greengate Power Corporation and Vestas-Canadian Wind Technology, Inc. have signed a turbine supply and long-term service and maintenance agreements for Greengate Power’s  300 MW Blackspring Ridge I Wind Project. Greengate is expecting to begin construction on Blackspring Ridge I in 2012, with a target commercial operation date of 2013. Upon completion, Blackspring Ridge I is [...]

QSolar Limited (CNSX: QSL) said it has started its own manufacturing and research and development operations in Shanghai, China. QSolar has leased facilities and hired a workforce to initially manufacture one pilot line with an annual production capacity of 15 megawatts (MW) of QSolar’s Kruciwatt product line. The near term objective for this manufacturing facility will be [...]

Qsolar Limited (CNSX: QSL) said the pilot solar installations of QSolar 230W frameless Spraytek panels in Verona, Italy and Valencia, Spain have been completed. and they will be used as demonstration models for customers Qsolar currently is in sales discussions with. QSolar also announced that Beijing Nandu Trade. Its Chinese distributor is currently evaluating the Spraytek panels [...]

BrightRoof Solar LP said it has submitted more than 40 applications to the Ontario Power Authority for solar Feed-In Tariff (FIT) contracts. The projects will together create more than $50 million of equipment sales and installation work in Ontario, and will add more than 12 megawatts of clean electricity generating capacity to Ontario’s power grid. The project sites are located [...]

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. (TSX: ATA) announced today that Photowatt Ontario Inc. has signed a supply agreement to supply Ontario made modules to the Canadian subsidiary of an unnamed global supplier of solar power serving the Ontario solar market. The supply agreement is a two-year commitment for the manufacture and delivery of approximately 24 MWs of modules with the [...]

Synex International Inc. (TSX: SXI) today provided an update on the development of Barr Creek Hydro Project. Barr Creek Hydro Project, a 4.4 MW hydroelectric plant to be located near the Village of Tahsis on Vancouver Island, is being developed by The Barr Creek Limited Partnership (BCLP) and its general partner, Barr Creek Hydro Ltd. (BCHL).  BCLP and BCHL will own, construct [...]

SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., a provider of end-to-end distributed solar power harvesting and PV monitoring solutions, today officially announced the opening of a brand new production line for North America at the Flextronics factory in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. The production launched earlier this month. The SolarEdge inverter includes PV power optimizers and module-level monitoring. [...]

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) today announced the sale of EverGEN 1710 solar powered lights for a federal government agency parking lot facility in a deal worth almost US $190,000. This installation was the first parking lot to be illuminated using solar powered lights by this particular government agency. The project used Advanced Occupancy Sensing (AOS),  Carmanah [...]

Ballard Power Systems (TSX: BLD; NASDAQ: BLDP) has signed an agreement to deploy a one-megawatt CLEARgen™ fuel cell generator at Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. sales and marketing headquarters campus in Torrance, California. The CLEARgen™ fuel cell system will utilize hydrogen produced by steam-reformation of renewable bio-gas generated at a landfill. The CLEARgen™ fuel cell [...]

AgriMarine Holdings Inc. (TSX-V: FSH; OTCQX: AGMHF; FRANKFURT: A2G) and Zhoushan Fisheries Research Institute (舟山水产研究所) of Zhejiang, China (ZFRI) have launched a joint venture for a commercial scale research project for the rearing of Yellow Croaker in a closed containment system. Yellow Croaker wild populations have declined since the 1970′s and are now cultured [...]

Alter NRG Corp. (TSX: NRG; OTCQX: ANRGF) said it has completed an independent analysis of the Fox Creek coal quality after ash removal, done by Norwest Engineering. The analysis indicates a coal quality of 4,820 kcal/kg (8,700 Btu/lb), which is similar quality to the North American Powder River Basin coal, and an overall yield of 57%. The Fox Creek coal asset is 847 million tonnes [...]