Here are some notable clean energy news items for the week of June 8, 2008.

Duke Energy to invest $100 million in solar power “Duke Energy Corp said on Monday it plans to spend $100 million to install solar panels at up to 850 homes, schools, stores and factories in North Carolina.”

New solar farm goes online “Sunrays falling on a 10-acre plot of solar panels in Oakdale have quietly begun to produce electricity for the South San Joaquin Irrigation District’s water treatment plant next door.”

NY to support carbon burial demonstration plant “The state of New York will grant $6 million for a demonstration coal-burning power plant that would permanently store underground emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.”

Towering Fuel Cell “The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has inked a $10.6m deal with UTC Power that will make the redeveloped World Trade Center the site of one of the largest fuel cell installations in the world.”

Gamesa, Iberdrola Renovables ink world-biggest wind turbine deal “Spanish turbine maker Gamesa said Friday it had won the world’s largest ever wind turbine sales order from Iberdrola Renovables, for generation capacity amounting to 4,500 MW.”

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