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Lighting Design from Finelite Helps National Grid Corporate Center Earn Double Platinum LEED Certification

Benefits from National Grid’s Collaboration with Its Lighting Designer and Lighting Manufacturer to Be Highlighted at NeoCon® Conference in June

11 Feb 2010

ASU Installs 2,000 LED Fixtures; Replaces Incandescent Downlights with LED Lights

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that Arizona State University (ASU) has joined the Cree LED University® program, an international community of universities working to accelerate the adoption of energy-efficient LEDs across their campuses. ASU has equipped six parking structures with more than 2,000 LED fixtures and has replaced 6-inch incandescent downlights in the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law rotunda with energy-efficient LED downlights.

11 Feb 2010

SPI Appoints Annerher as Representative to Establish Yes! Solar Power Dealers in Spain, Portugal

Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB:SOPW) announced today that it has signed a sales representation agreement with Annerher S.L. of Barcelona, Spain to establish Yes! Solar Power™ dealers in Spain and Portugal. Under the terms of the agreement, Annerher will represent the Yes! Solar Power™ dealer program and sales of the Company’s Yes! Energy Series™ residential photovoltaic (PV) solar products and integrated solutions, as well as SPI’s commercial solar solutions. Annerher S.L. will solicit dealerships throughout Spain and Portugal for the purpose of distributing SPI’s PV solar product lines.

11 Feb 2010

Canadian Solar Installs 250kW Photovoltaic Rooftop System in Ontario

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ), a leading vertically integrated provider of solar cells, solar module custom-designed solar application products and turnkey solutions for the residential, commercial and solar farm markets, today announced it installed Ontario's first 250 kW photovoltaic (PV) rooftop system through its subsidiary Canadian Solutions Inc. The installation, the first of its kind in Ontario, is being completed with Towcon Holdings and Aecon.

11 Feb 2010

ET Solar Inks Sales Deal with Germany's Umwelt Sonne Energie for 31MW of PV Modules

ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a Nanjing-based photovoltaic ("PV") system turnkey solution provider and integrated manufacturer of PV products, announced a 31MW module sales agreement with Umwelt Sonne Energie GmbH ("USE") in Germany.

11 Feb 2010

Thorlabs Extends of its Current Line of Adaptive Optics Kits

In a continuing effort to provide easy and affordable adaptive optics (AO) solutions for research and teaching labs, Thorlabs is pleased to announce the extension of its current line of Adaptive Optics (AO) kits to include the AOK2 series of Mini AO kits.

10 Feb 2010

Gloucester Seeks Approval for Installation of Intersection Cameras to Improve Road Safety

Gloucester Township has decided to apply to the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) for permission to install life-saving intersection cameras in its community to improve road safety for residents. The Township selected American Traffic Solutions, Inc. (ATS) to administer the program.

10 Feb 2010

Berjaya Solar to Develop 10-MW Solar Power Plant at Selangor, Malaysia

In a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday, BCorp said the plant was a precursor to developing a proposed 50-MW Solar PV power plant in future based on the success of the 10-MW plant it was undertaking.

10 Feb 2010

New InspectEdge Tool from Cognex Helps to Find Edge Cracks in Solar Wafers

Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) today announced In-Sight® Explorer 4.4, a new software release for its In-Sight vision systems. In-Sight Explorer 4.4 adds new color tools, improved calibration and expanded data access within its EasyBuilder® configuration software, and expands support for larger line scan images. The new software also introduces InspectEdge™, a powerful and easy-to-use new family of tools for detecting edge defects and inspecting edge pairs.

10 Feb 2010

Vitesse Semiconductor Unleashes Jaguar Ethernet Devices for Carrier Ethernet Applications

MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010 – Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS) today introduced the Jaguar™ family of Ethernet devices designed specifically for service provider Carrier Ethernet applications. Utilizing a new architecture from Vitesse, this family offers an optimized feature set that is critical for transitioning today’s TDM circuit-switched networks to modern, packet-based Ethernet networks. This transition enables carriers worldwide to provide expanded services to users of wired and wireless networks. With the Jaguar family of devices, Ethernet services are delivered faster with greater flexibility at a lower cost.

10 Feb 2010

NEC Electronics America to Display its LED Lighting Technologies in Light Conference 2010

NEC Electronics America, Inc. today announced it will showcase the breadth and depth of its expertise in LED lighting technologies during the Strategies in Light Conference 2010 (booth #501), February 10-12, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Demonstrations will highlight the company’s cost-competitive, intelligent digital-control solutions for a range of high-brightness (HB)-LED lighting applications, including street lighting, entertainment and architectural lighting, and residential and commercial retrofitted lighting.

10 Feb 2010

Prime Sun Power Plans to Develop 500MW Solar Power Plant Projects by 2013

Prime Sun Power Inc. (OTCBB: PSPW), is positioning itself as a clean energy utility company with an emphasis on the development, construction and operation of its own and third party utility-scale photovoltaic power plants. The company is focusing on photovoltaic solar power generation in Europe, particularly in Italy, Greece and Turkey.

10 Feb 2010