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Power technology company American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: AMSC) said today it will acquire The Switch Engineering OY, based in Finland, for €190 million in cash and AMSC shares ($265.43 million at today’s 1.00 EUR = 1.40 USD). 

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As U.S. officials ponder a 2012 budget that would strengthen clean energy, the governments of Indonesia and Finland this week signed a cooperation agreement marking the beginning of a bilateral program to promote the use of wood-based biomass and agricultural waste as energy sources.

Namibia, a southern African nation best known for producing what are considered the highest quality diamonds in the world, has plans to take advantage of another natural resource: its windswept Atlantic coastline.

Finland's government will introduce feed-in tariffs, guaranteed set prices for producers of wind and biogas power, beginning next year. Once the plan receives the parliamentary green light, subsidies will come into force on January 1, 2011, lasting for 12 years.

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Finland's comprehensive "green highway" proposal will likely set a world standard for efficient, renewable energy travel.

In an effort to accelerate the world’s clean energy technologies, the United States will host the first-ever Clean Energy Ministerial next week.

Clean energy leaders, stakeholders and government officials from around the world will work together to advance clean energy technologies.

The only bright spot in four quarters of darkness for alternative energy and clean tech stocks came from the global water sector as mirrored by the Claymore S&P Global Water Index exchanged traded fund (ETF) (NYSE: CGW).

College and university students from all over the world are preparing for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010.

Once selected, students from nine countries will design and build real self-sufficient, solar-powered homes. The teams have 10 days to assemble their solar homes onsite at the Solar Village.

“The coming boom in lithium” is a phrase that seems to be gaining momentum these days, much to the delight of the dozens of junior companies raising capital to join the rush to find and develop lithium deposits.