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Sage Geosystems Raises Over $97 Million To Deploy World’s First Commercial Pressure Geothermal Power Generation Facility

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Ormat Technologies and Carbon Direct Capital co-lead Series B financing, which will support the development of Sage’s first next-generation geothermal power generation project. Sage Geosystems, the company pioneering Pressure Geothermal, closed over $97 million in Series B funding to advance its geothermal power generation and energy storage solutions, including its … [continued]

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Great Lakes Echo

Invasive species expert teaches volunteers to overcome ‘plant blindness’

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By Anna Ironside

Caroline Miller is a botanical technologist at Michigan State University’s W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, as well as a master’s student. Her work has made her a driving force behind restoration projects on campus and beyond. From invasive species removal days to a growing movement to replace traditional turf lawns with native landscapes, Miller doesn’t quit.

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US Patent & Trademark Office Rejects Attempts by Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar, and Mundra Solar to Challenge Validity of First Solar TOPCon Patents

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Inter Partes Review applications denied as First Solar lawsuits continue to progress. First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) (“First Solar”) today announced that the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied three separate Inter Partes Review (IPR) applications seeking to invalidate the company’s Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (“TOPCon”) … [continued]

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