Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of May 18, 2008.

Biopower Systems Builds Ocean Power Technologies “Yet Sydney, Australia, based BioPower Systems, in seeking to prove the old dictum that you can’t improve on nature, has done just that: building two ocean power conversion systems modeled around a shark’s fin and a sea plant’s fronds.”

We Energies turns on Fond du Lac County wind farm “We Energies said that it placed 88 turbines at its $300 million Fond du Lac County wind power development into commercial service Monday, marking the launch of a renewable energy source that’s expected to power 36,000 homes.”

Stantec Bringing Solar and Wind Energy to Brooklyn Navy Yard “Stantec today announced that a new, 89,000-square-foot building under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will feature energy-saving solar and wind-generated power as part of a renewable energy pilot program.”

World’s largest smart meter group set up “A private investment group today launched the world’s largest smart metering company under the Landis+Gyr brand to capitalise on a worldwide push toward greater energy efficiency.”

South Africa switches on 1st wind farm “South Africa’s energy minister inaugurated the country’s first wind farm Friday, acknowledging that the government has done too little to develop renewable energy over the past decade.”

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