* Name & Location
* Peak power in megawatts peak (MWp)
* Number of developed solar panels
* Date of commissioning
* State
* Name of contractor
* Name of the module manufacturer

Easy sorting
The table has a convenient search function, which is also suitable for sorting the results. If for example ‘Bayern ” is entered, only the table rows remains in which the word “Bayern” which is equal for Bavaria occurs. The same works with the manufacturer’s name or to locate a particular solar park. Try it here: http://www.solar-prinz.de!

Interesting findings
The sorting function comes up with interesting insights. For example, in 2008 have an installed peak power of 1.8 megawatts (MWp) was enough to make it into the TOP 100 of Germany’s largest solar installations. A year later, this performance is only enough for position 182! Meanwhile, at least 3.1 MWp are needed to enter the “Club of the TOP 100″.

Bavaria ist the Champion
Among the provinces, the Free State of Bavaria ist German’s champion. Not only in the area of soccer, but with Germany’s largest solar installations. 48 of the 100 largest German solar farms are located in Bavaria. Their total performance sums up to 327 MWp.
The largest general contractor in the area of “mega solar park” is the “Juwi Solar GmbH”. They built 11 parks out of the “Top 100″, representing a peak output of 158.8 MW. In second place is Q-Cells with four solar farms and as many as 116.1 MWp.

Thin-film solar modules preferred
First Solar is the preferred supplier of solar modules: 36 of the 100 solar parks are provided with First Solar thin film modules. The installed peak power of 355 MW out of a total of 776 MWp is equivalent to a market share of around 45% within Germany’s solar giants!

The site provides also the latest developments in Germany’s solar subsidies policy.

Calling all Metro area green thumbs! Are you tending a vegetable garden in Washington DC, a flower garden in Falls Church, or a lush green lawn in Bethesda? Then point your browser to http://metro-dc-lawn-garden-blog.com for the latest in online horticultural information and fun.

The Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog also has a serious side: preventing water pollution and encouraging water conservation. In between the fun tidbits and helpful tips, the writers for the Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog will include periodic reminders and public service messages on topics such as responsible application of fertilizer and pesticide, proper disposal of grass clippings and other yard waste, and tips to avoid unnecessary waste of water.

“As local governments, we’re always looking for ways to make the Washington metro area the best place possible to own a home and raise a family,” said Stuart Freudberg, environmental program director for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. “We’re launching this blog to provide local local green thumbs with a fun and informal way to learn about the opportunities, services, and requirements that local governments have for them.”

“Who says government has to be dull? Visitors will find the tips and techniques for growing just about anything,” said Eric Eckl, principal for Water Words That Work, LLC, which will produce the Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog under contract to the council. “And to make it fun, we’ll mix it up with funny videos, cute stories, helpful tips, and more.”

To visit the Metro DC Lawn and Garden Blog, point your browser to:
http://metro-dc-lawn-garden-blog.com

About the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
COG is a regional organization of Washington area local governments. COG is comprised of 21 local governments surrounding our nation’s capital, plus area members of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. COG provides a focus for action and develops sound regional responses to such issues as the environment, affordable housing, economic development, health and family concerns, human services, population growth, public safety, and transportation.

About Water Words That Work, LLC
Water Words That Work, LLC is a boutique environmental communications and marketing agency. We help our clients modernize and professionalize their pollution prevention, fundraising, and issue advocacy campaigns. Our clients include the National Park Service, the Ogeechee Riverkeeper, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, American Rivers, the Ohio Environmental Coalition, Save Georgia’s Coast, and many other nature protection and pollution control organizations.

Using ultrasound in honey can destroy undesirable constituents, such as crystals and yeast cells, without reducing the quality of honey. Ultrasound is an effective alternative to thermal treatment. If honey is heated to liquefy crystals, to reduce the water content, and to destroy the yeast this causes also a reduction in quality for themselve. Through the heating, the hydroxylmethylfurfural (HMF) increases significantly. The allowed maximum value of HMF is 40mg/kg. Other adverse effects of thermal treatment are the browning of the natural honey color and the reduction of enzyme activity, thereby reducing the sensory quality of honey.
Ultrasound destroys yeast cells, removes crystals and prevents further crystallization in honey. In trials, the liquid state of the ultrasound-treated honey was stable for approximately 350 days (+20% more in comparison with the thermal treatment). Since the honey during sonication is exposed to minimal heating, ultrasonic liquefaction results in a greater retention of aroma and flavor. Sonicated samples show only a low HMF increase and a low decrease in diastase activity.
In comparison to the heating, the advantages of sonication are based in the gentle treatment of the honey. In contrast to the thermal treatment, by the ultrasonic treatment the quality of honey will not be affected negatively.
Hielscher Ultrasonics offers its customers a broad selection of high-power ultrasonic processors. Different types of honey require specific intensities and times of sonication. For this reason, the conduct of trials using a bench-top size sonication system is recommended. Preliminary tests should be conducted in batch mode, while further processing trials require a flow cell for pressurized recirculation or in-line testing.

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DSB Energy Services opened for business on April 19, to help homeowners in Bucks and Montgomery counties cope with soaring energy costs. By the end of 2010, both utilities serving these counties — PP&L and PECO — will have raised residential energy rates by as much as 20%. DSB Energy Services is an independent and locally owned business based in North Wales, Pennsylvania.

“DSB Energy Services helps our customers cut their energy bill and their federal tax bills,” said David Berg, founder and owner of DSB Energy Services. “We provide honest, expert advice and we do not take commissions on the products or services that we recommend.”

Homeowners are often confused by the many ways to waste less energy in their homes. Air sealing, spray foam insulation, blown insulation, fiberglass insulation, duct sealing, weather stripping, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, Energy Star appliances, and other items all help to some degree. But each home is different and there is no “one size fits all” solution.

“For homeowners who want to cut their gas and electricity bills, getting a home energy audit is a smart first step,” Berg said.

DSB Energy Services works with homeowners to produce a roadmap to saving energy, saving money, and improving the comfort of your home. Those who own energy efficient homes take pride knowing that they are doing their part to prevent pollution, too. We work with you, the homeowner, to find answers to the following questions:
• How is energy utilized in your home?
• Is the home properly sealed for air leaks and effectively insulated?
• What are your options to make cost effective improvements?
• What loans and other financial incentives are available to help you make your investment?
• What tax credits would you be eligible for once the work is done?

“Often homeowners can save more money with inexpensive repairs than they can with new windows or other big ticket items,” Berg said. “And homeowners may be eligible for tax rebates or loans for the big ticket items that are necessary.”

Visit DSB Energy online to get a free quote for a home energy audit in Bucks or Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. Or Contact DSB Energy Services directly at 215.997.7186 or write dberg@dsbenergy.com.

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Water Words That Work, LLC invites environmental and professionals to browse the web’s largest single collection of environmental polls, surveys, focus group reports, and related research materials — for free.

Log in to the collection at the URL below:
http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2010/04/06/environmental-poll-collection

“Conducting an environmental poll is often worthwhile, but it can be very expensive,” said Eric Eckl, the company’s founder and owner. “Our online environmental poll collection is the next best thing to doing your own original research.”

Water Words That Work, LLC, has been collecting and analyzing environmental polls, surveys, focus group reports, and related materials for many years. The company has used this collection as the foundation for developing its techniques and services, such as the environmental message method and the Due Diligence Test Panel.

The collection is now among the largest of its type in the world, and features more than 700 research reports dating back to 1994. The database is powered by the Delicious social bookmarking system. Users can search it by title, date, topic, location, research firm, and many other criteria.

Nature protection and pollution control organizations can use the materials in this database in any number of ways:
• Conducting literature reviews prior to launching your own environmental poll
• Conducting literature reviews as supplement to or in lieu of conducting your own environmental poll
• Comparing environmental attitudes and opinions in different locations, or at different times
• Comparing attitudes and opinions about various conservation topics
• Comparing attitudes and opinions among people from different walks of life
“The research in this database cost many millions of dollars, but the sponsors elected to make their findings available to all, for free,” Eckl said. “It’s only fair that this database of their work be available to all, for free, too.”

About Water Words That Work, LLC
Water Words That Work, LLC is marketing firm that helps nature protection and pollution control organizations modernize and professionalize their communications. The company works with its clients to plan and execute fundraising, issue advocacy, and pollution prevention campaigns. Our clients include the National Park Service, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Ogeechee Riverkeeper, West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and many others. Learn more at http://waterwordsthatwork.com

Calling all natural resource managers, water utility executives, watershed organizations, waterkeepers, and land trusts! The National Wildlife Federation will host a hands-on environmental communication workshop designed just for you in Austin on May 5th, 2010.

The “Water Words That Work” workshop re-orients conservation professionals to the language that the public uses when they talk about nature protection and pollution control. Participants will learn to prepare written and spoken communications that connect with everyday citizens and motivate action on behalf of our rivers, forests, lakes, wetlands, and oceans.

Click the link below for details and to register:
http://www.austin-water-words.eventbrite.com/

“The Water Words That Work workshop has earned rave reviews from attendees all across the country,” said Lacey McCormick, Communications Manager with the National Wildlife Federation. “We’re pleased to be able to offer this workshop to our peers here in Texas.”

“Environmental scientists, engineers, attorneys, and other professionals often struggle to explain their work to the public in layman’s terms,” said Eric Eckl, owner of Water Words That Work, LLC, who will lead the workshop. “This workshop will help them overcome this challenge and make the case to the public for political and financial support for their work.”

Most environmental communications produce lip service to conservation, but only a few produce action. This workshop will explore what distinguishes the two — synthesizing the results of hundreds of opinion polls, focus groups, and social research studies that explore the question. Participants will learn a 4-step writing method for translating scientific background information into effective issue advocacy, fundraising, and pollution prevention materials.

By applying the Water Words That Work method, attendees will develop the communications skills to succeed:
• Environmental writing for citizens
• Planning social marketing campaigns
• Working with reporters
• Preparing websites and blogs
• Fundraising
• Speaking at public meetings and hearings
• Lobbying public officials

About the National Wildlife Federation
Since 1936, The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has worked to protect wildlife for our children’s future. NWF’s South Central Regional Center, based in Austin, focuses on protecting and restoring healthy rivers and estuaries, conserving wetlands, springs and aquifers, protecting wildlife populations from global warming, promoting sustainable land and water use, and connecting both children and adults with the natural world.

About Water Words That Work, LLC
Water Words That Work, LLC is marketing firm that helps nature protection and pollution control organizations modernize and professionalize their communications. The company works with its clients to plan and execute fundraising, issue advocacy, and pollution prevention efforts. Our clients include the National Park Service, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Ogeechee Riverkeeper, West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and many others. Learn more at http://waterwordsthatwork.com

Using a programmable thermostat in your home is one of the easiest ways to save energy, money, and help fight global warming. An ENERGY STAR qualified programmable thermostat helps make it easy to save energy and money by offering four pre-programmed settings to regulate your home’s temperature in both summer and winter — when you are asleep or away.

Products that earn the Energy Star prevent greenhouse gas emissions by meeting strict energy-efficiency guidelines.

The average household spends more than $2,000 a year on energy bills — nearly half of which goes to heating and cooling. Homeowners can save about $180 a year by properly setting their programmable thermostats and maintaining those settings. The pre-programmed settings that come with ENERGY STAR qualified programmable thermostats are intended to deliver savings without sacrificing comfort.

Heating and cooling losses from a building become greater as the difference in temperature increases. A programmable thermostat allows reduction of these losses by allowing the temperature difference to be reduced at times when the reduced amount of heating or cooling would not be objectionable.

Honeywell Programmable Thermostats provide the ability to automatically adjust for unique lifestyles, controlling home comfort to the desired temperature at the desired time. They do the work for the homeowner automatically when they are away or asleep. And the big benefit is energy savings – up to 30% on home heating and cooling costs – by adjusting the temperature up or down, thereby reducing equipment run-time. Honeywell combines the convenience of schedule selection with precise temperature control to deliver superior programmable thermostats.

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“It will be a dynamic and interactive Summit, emphasizing the economic impact of Green IT,” said Teresa Moraska, CEO, Warrior Communications, one of the event’s organizers, “which perfectly meshes the foremost green priorities of industry, government, urgent credit and revenue opportunities for private enterprises, and prodigious innovation and business development opportunities for energy study and improvement groups.”

All technology groups wanting to benefit from cutting-edge research and knowhow, Moraska added, would be in a remarkable vantage point in the nation’s capital to hear the foremost practitioners and researchers unveil the latest technologies propelling Green IT, and experience first-hand the major breakthroughs achieved in pioneering organizations such as Microsoft, HP, BT, and Green research centers of major universities, such as The University of Maryland, George Washington, George Mason and Harvard.

The intensive daylong conference will be sponsored by media groups, such as Forbes.com, the Internet Summit, and other national press, bringing in participants from major corporations, frontline technology groups, Federal and state governments, university faculties and green research centers. It will include keynote addresses and panel discussions on seminal topics:

• Green IT 2.0 Perspectives
• The Economics of Green IT and Triple Bottom Line
• Greening Data Centers
• Server and Desktop Virtualization
• Public Sector Green IT

The Green IT Economic Summit will also launch the annual Top 25 Most Influential People in Green IT List, from which recipients of the premiere Green & Bold Awards will be selected in a VIP post-conference reception for their major contributions to the Green IT space.

Website: http://www.greeniteconomicsummit.org/

“We are honored to receive this important certification from the City of Austin,” said David Rubin, CEO of Outrank.com. “We are dedicated to green practices throughout our company and want to make the city we call home a great place to live and do business.”

WasteSMART is a certification program from the City of Austin Solid Waste Services department that recognizes local companies that are dedicated to reducing and recycling waste products as well as committed to buying recycled products.

ProfitFuel and Outrank.com have focused their efforts on reducing solid waste by eliminating Styrofoam cups, using reusable coffee mugs, and recycling used electronic equipment, office paper, aluminum and plastic.

“We looked at our different processes and focused on a way we could make a significant impact on our waste,” Rubin said. “Our business model is focused on helping companies drive business at their local level.”

Outrank.com helps businesses increase their local search engine placement to drive new customer traffic and business development activities on the web. It uses proprietary search engine placement techniques to get its clients ranking on the front pages of the search engines. Outrank also features a search engine optimized website and strategic monitoring of the client’s search engine ranking. The result is that potential customers are able to find these local businesses.

Outrank.com is a ProfitFuel product. ProfitFuel was founded in 2002 and has been named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by INC. magazine, one of the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas by the Austin Business Journal, and one of Texas’ Best Places to Work by Texas Monthly.

Website: http://outrankcom.org/profitfuel-named-a-city-of-austin-wastesmart-partner/