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Accent, a world leader in semiconductor integration of communications and metering technologies, announced today that it has closed a new round of financing of 5 Million Euros from Silicon Valley investor Tallwood Venture Capital.

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American Superconductor Corporation , a global power technologies company, today announced that it has received the world’s largest order for high temperature superconductor wire. LS Cable Ltd. , the world’s third largest power cable manufacturer, has placed an order for 3 million meters of Amperium wire – AMSC’s proprietary second generation HTS wire.

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Equity Line Facility to Supplement Further Growth for Company

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MONTPELIER — The Vermont Economic Development Authority has approved $33.5 million in financing assistance for commercial and manufacturing projects throughout the state. … – Staff REPORT

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Thursday, the winners of the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize were announced at a special ceremony at the Historical Society in Washington DC. The ten million dollar contest challenged 111 teams to create a clean, production-capable vehicle that could exceed 100 miles per gallon or its energy equivalent (MPGe).

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SHANGHAI – The number of vehicles on China’s roads will more than double to at least 200 million by 2020, a top official was quoted Monday as saying, further straining the nation’s environment and energy supply.

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Nonprofit works to reduce unemployment among returning service members

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As local ethanol producers are still struggling to catch up with forecast supply to back a higher blend of 10 percent in 2011, the way forward appears even more patchy as bio-ethanol demand of the domestic oil industry is seen inching up to more than 500 million liters in three years. Based on documents from the Department of Energy (DoE), even if the blend to gasoline stays at 10 percent (E10 …

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(AP:MONTPELIER, Vt.) Vermont is getting $5.7 million in federal aid to help homeowners use smart meters and install new solar hot water technologies. Smart meters are digital electricity meters that use real-time communication to help utilities be more efficient dealing with outages and demand.

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The fourth annual Clean Energy Venture Summit (CEVS), a partnership between The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and Austin Energy, names an elite judges panel to review this year’s competing companies as they vie for a spot in Austin’s $29 million demonstration project.

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