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Pattern Energy Group has secured approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a 20-year power purchase agreement with with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) for wind energy to be produced at a new wind farm in Imperial Valley, California.

Pattern Energy Group LP has set another wind energy precedent with its announcement that it has secured financing for a 75 MW wind farm in Puerto Rico.

Pattern Energy Group LP and Samsung Renewable Energy have inked a supply contract with Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) that will create as many as 600 new jobs at the Ontario plants operated by the German turbine maker and CS Wind, which builds wind towers, the companies announced Monday.

LG has joined the race of consumer electronics companies vying to be the most sustainable in the world – a growing list that includes Panasonic, Samsung and Toshiba.

Mesa Power Group, a private Texas-based wind developer, has initiated the process of taking legal action against the Province of Ontario for its feed-in tariff program's failure to comply to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

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The first financial quarter of 2011 closed last week, and the early numbers suggest it was a record quarter for cleantech investment.

South Korea, the world's second-largest buyer of liquefied-natural-gas after Japan and fifth leading oil importer, plans to increase investment in renewable resources by 24% this year, to 1 trillion won (US$890 million) from 808.4 billion won last year, according to an e-mailed statement issued by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (this past October, the South Korean government said it would inject some $35 billion into the public and private sectors by 2015 to boost renewables).

It has definitely been a wild week, one filled with hustle and bustle in the renewable energy arena.  Surely, the most notable event this was Tesla Motor's successful move on to the stock market.

So, weekly trekkers I hope your ready to go, today's ride is an action-packed one.  Strap on your helmets because...

This past month, Samsung (SEO:005930) launched the world's first solar-powered mobile phone, The Solar Guru E1107, to the Indian market.