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Six US Based Solar PV Equipment Manufacturers to Watch

By Chris de Morsella on December 10, 2009 1 Comment Advent Solar, Amerimade Technology, amorphous silicon, Applied Materials, automated wet bench, Bedford, CA, California, chemical vapor deposition reactor, cleaning, Coherent, crystalline silicon, dielectric ablation, dopant diffusion, edge isolation, etch-barrier ablation, etching, flexible PV, for thin-film patterning, GT Solar, IL, Illinois, Illinois Tool Works, ITW, laser, laser-assisted selective-emitter formation, lithographic screen printing, Livermore, MA, Massachusetts, Merrimack, multi-crystalline furnace, multi-crystalline ingot, multi-layer screen printing, New Hampshire, NH, photovoltaic inkjet, photovoltaic wafer fabrication machinery, piezoelectric impulse ink jet printhead, plating, polysilicon, polysilicon reactor, Santa Clara, semi-conductor manufacturing, silicon valley, solar cell, solar energy, solar equipment manufacturer, Solar Industry Award, solar module, solar panel, Spire Corporation, stripping, thin film silicon solar, Trident Solar, turnkey solar manufacturing line, wet chemical surface texturing

The manufacturers of the equipment and production lines that are needed to produce solar cells and modules are an important segment of the overall value chain in the solar PV sector as a whole. These companies are making a wide variety of equipment that finds use in the manufacture of solar cells, ranging from tradition semi-conductor manufacturing equipment that has grown out of the computer semi-conductor industry, to more exotic things like specialized inkjet printers and lasers. Who are these US based solar photovoltaic equipment manufacturers and how are they fairing in the global recession of 2009?

Who Tops Newsweek’s First Annual Green Rankings?

By Tracey de Morsella on September 21, 2009 1 Comment Agilent, Allegheny Energy, Ameren, American Electric Power, Applied Materials, Baxter, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Bunge, Business Ethics Magazine, Carbon Disclosure Project, Climate Center, Climate Change, Climate Counts, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Conference Board, Consol Energy, corporate social responsibility officers, CorporateRegister.com, CSR, Dan Esty, David Vidal, Dell, EIS, emissions, energy, environmental footprin, environmental footprint, Environmental groups, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT SCORE, environmental impacts, environmental policies, FirstEnergy, GHGs, GREEN POLICIES SCORE, GREEN SCORE, greenbiz, greenest companies in America, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Intel Corporation, ITT, Joel Makower, John Steelman, Johnson & Johnson, KLD, KLD Research and Analytics, Kohl's, Marathon Oil, Marjorie Kelly, National Resource Defense Council, natural resources, Newsweek, Newsweek Green Rankings, NIKE, NRG Energy, Peabody Energy, PG&E, Praxair, regulatory compliance, REPUTATION SCORE, Southern, Starbucks, State Street, State Street Corporation, Tellus Institute, toxic waste emissions, Trucost, United Technologies, utility, Wells Fargo, Yale University, Z-scores

Today, Newsweek launched a ranking of the greenest companies in America in its current issue and Hewlett-Packard took top honors. The Newsweek Green Rankings is the first-ever report based on companies’ actual environmental footprint, policies and practices. The twelve-page report in the September 28 issue, features a green ranking of America’s 500 largest publicly-traded companies as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees. On Newsweek.com, users can search and sort the data in several ways, analyze the detailed methodology of the study and submit and review comments.

ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors

By Tracey de Morsella on May 4, 2009 Comments Off on ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors absorption chillers, Allstate, Aplicor, Applied Materials, Austin Energy, BT Group, Burt's Bees, capital savings, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon footprints, carbon impact, carbon offset, centralize, Citigroup, Compellent Technologies, compression, ComputerWorld, consolidating, convert, cooling demands, copper consumption, Data Center, data de-duplication, data network, data recovery, DC power, de-duplication, decommission server, e-waste, EAM, eco-friendly, electric grid, electronics recycling, emissions, EMS, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, energy use, Entrust, Environmental Management System, EPEAT Gold certified, flat-screen, Fujitsu America, green, Green Computing, Green-e, Green-IT, Green-IT Vendors, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, hot/cold aisle isolation, IBM, incentives, Infor Enterprise Asset Management, intelligent power management, IT chargeback costs, KPMG, LCD monitors, LEED-certified, Linux-based mainframes, Living Green, MAID storage, Marriot, massive array of idle disks, Mohawk Fine Papers, monitor energy use, multicore, Office Depot, peak energy efficiency, power, power demands, power usage, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, recycle, recycling, renewable energy, sensors, server consolidation, servers, Seventh Generation, socially responsible, State of Indiana, State Street, sustainability, temperature, Terremark, thin clients, thin provisioning, videoconferencing, virtual server, virtualized, virtualizing, VoIP, water use, wind

For the second year in a row, ComputerWorld has showcased the achievements at 12 IT departments that are reducing power demands and using technology to create energy efficiencies. Thirty criteria were used to determine which organizations had the greenest IT departments. The IT departments selected include: Mohawk Fine Papers, State Street, Allstate, Citigroup, PricewaterhouseCoopers, State of Indiana, KPMG, Seventh Generation, Office Depot, Burt’s Bees, Marriot and Austin Energy. Find out why these organizations were selected.