LS9, Inc., a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable products, today announced an investment from the Florida Opportunity Fund's Clean Energy Investment Program, and the Grand Opening plans for its facility in Okeechobee, Florida. (Read more)

A German company that builds clean energy power generation systems will open a U.S. manufacturing plant in St. Augustine, creating 125 jobs with an average salary of $50,000. (Read more)

Forbes Magazine has ranked the 12 most promising clean-energy projects selected by the DoD for 2012. (Read more)

National Solar Power said it will spend $700 million to develop a 200-megawatt solar farm in Florida's Hardee County, making it the company's second project in the state that has one of the highest per-capita electricity demand in the country. (Read more)

Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. is among six awardees of a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the advancement of next generation wind turbine technology. (Read more)

Darden Restaurants, Inc., the world's largest full-service restaurant company, is building Florida's largest private solar array in Orlando. (Read more)

Minnesota-based Rational Energies MC Inc., which converts agricultural and municipal waste into synthetic crude oil, has selected Manatee County as the location for the company's first green energy manufacturing facility. (Read more)

Lake Mary-based BlueChip Energy has received approval to develop a 40 megawatt solar farm in Lake County -- the largest privately owned solar farm in the State of Florida and one of the largest in the United States. (Read more)

5D Composite Inc., based in Ontario, Canada, plans to relocate part of its manufacturing operation to Sarasota County in 2011 and create 120 jobs. (Read more)

In just the few short years the Lighting Science Group has been around, the company has gone from a tiny operation to a worldwide leader in energy efficient lighting, with plans to add 200 more workers on Florida's Space Coast in the next 18 months. (Read more)

Florida's Advanced Solar Photonics will soon become the nation's 3rd largest producer of Solar PV Panels. Besides bragging rights, this expansion will also create 50+ new Central Florida jobs. (Read more)

In a partnership that seems fitting for the Sunshine State, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter are teaming with solar energy experts at NextEra Energy and its subsidiary, Florida Power & Light Co., to take solar technology to the next level. (Read more)

MaxWest Environmental Systems, Inc. today announced a $32.5 million investment in third round funding, which it will use to implement its proprietary MaxWest Gasification System. (Read more)

Lakeland Electric and SunEdison are builing an 18,000-panel solar farm at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport- the largest solar farm at airport in the United States. (Read more)

Saft is moving its North American headquarters to Jacksonville where the company is building a $200 million high-tech battery plant. (Read more)

Nautilus Solar Energy, LLC announced its entry into the Florida solar market with the acquisition and development of two distributed generation projects, as well as the development of a third greenfield utility scale project. (Read more)

The Indian River BioEnergy Center will be the nation's first full-scale commercial facility to convert waste disposal into useful energy products such as ethanol and electricity. Company executives have said the investment in the community will total more than $130 million and will create 50 full-time permanent jobs. (Read more)

Bing Energy Inc. (BEI) has selected Florida as the new site of the company's world headquarters. BEI, in collaboration with Florida State University, is planning to turn revolutionary nanotechnology pioneered at FSU into a better, faster, more economical and commercially viable fuel cell. The move is expected to create at least 244 jobs. (Read more)

The rooftop of a Publix-anchored shopping centre in Gainesville will be transformed into a 46,000 square-foot solar farm. (Read more)

City Labs, Inc., the pioneering innovator of long-life NanoTritium batteries for microelectronics,is the first company in the betavoltaic battery industry to be granted a Product Regulatory General License to manufacture, sell, and distribute betavoltaic batteries. (Read more)

INEOS New Planet BioEnergy, LLC. won a $75 million loan guarantee to construct and operate a biorefinery capable of producing 8 million gallons-per-year of cellulosic ethanol and gross electricity production capacity of 6 MW. The feedstock for the process will include primarily vegetative, yard, wood, and municipal solid wastes. (Read more)

Sybac Solar, a German subsidiary based in Lakeland, is building the largest privately owned solar array in the state in Gainesville. When complete, 8,600 photovoltaic panels will supply 2 megawatts of power - enough to power 200 to 300 homes. (Read more)

Algenol will build a 36-acre facility to demonstrate its Direct To Ethanol technology, which produces ethanol directly from carbon dioxide using blue-green algae. (Read more)

Ford has announced that Orlando is one of nineteen national launch markets for an electric version of the new 2012 Focus, starting in late 2011. (Read more)

Gainesville Regional Utilities earned the prestigious 2010 Energy Star CHP Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its reliable, eco-friendly, energy-efficient and cost-effective South Energy Center. (Read more)

Nopetro, a natural-gas company, opened its headquarters in Tallahassee and announced plans to establish operations throughout Florida Nonpetro plans to build and operate 12 natural-gas stations in Florida that will mainly service large shipping-container trucks and school buses. (Read more)

Florida's fast-growing cleantech cluster celebrates the opening of Algenol Biofuels'$10M state-of-the-art biofuels lab & R&D facility. The 40,000 square-foot facility houses an advanced algae biology, engineering, carbon dioxide (CO2) and green chemistry laboratory. (Read more)

Helpful Technologies Inc., a Fort Lauderdale-based company developing emerging market green energy technologies, has closed an $11.8 million equity raise connected to its acquisition of intellectual property. (Read more)

Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) and JEA join forces to launch PSEG Jacksonville Solar, northern Florida's largest solar facility. PSEG Jacksonville Solar is a 15-megawatt facility consisting of 200,000 ground mounted solar panels situated on 100 acres. (Read more)

Mustang Vacuum Systems LLC is ramping up operations in its new Manatee County facility with plans to add 125 jobs in the next three years. Mustang manufactures equipment used by solar cell manufacturers, and its expanded production capacity will drive down the cost of solar energy for consumers by incorporating technologies into solar cell production that will reduce costs as well as increase efficiency of the cells. (Read more)

Siemens Energy is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate POSTCAP technology for capturing carbon gas. The primary goal of this project will be to reduce the large amounts of energy traditionally needed to operate carbon capture technologies. (Read more)

Clean and Green Enterprises, Inc., a renewable energy company, has established a research and development operation in Melbourne, Florida. Clean and Green Enterprises, Inc. is a clean energy company with proprietary technology for harnessing electricity from ocean waves, and is directly involved in efforts to create jobs in the emerging green economy. (Read more)

BlueChip Energy, a Florida-based provider of complete solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, has started stage one of the Rinehart Solar Farm, a 10 MW utility-scale solar PV facility in Central Florida. This facility will have a total capacity of 10 megawatts and an annual generation of approximately 15,000,000 kilowatt-hours. (Read more)

Energy Farm Inc. plans to build a $300 million photovoltaic plant in Florida's Walton County. The facility, capable of supplying 12,000 homes, will be built on 550 acres near Freeport. (Read more)

Hamilton County may soon be known for its ongoing efforts in renewable energy development. A renewable power development team called Hamilton Energy Resource Organization, or HERO, plans to break ground early next year on a 400-acre photovoltaic solar power system in Jennings, the Hercules Solar Park, where at least 50 megawatts of power will be produced. (Read more)

A new technology company has been formed in Tallahassee by an engineer from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and will produce superconducting cable as part of an international fusion energy project. Known as CICEFT, the business is starting out with a $5 million federal contract to produce components for what could essentially be a unlimited source of clean, carbon-free electricity. (Read more)

Planar Energy, the developer of large-format, solid-state, ceramic-like batteries at half the cost and triple the performance of lithium-ion batteries, is one of four companies selected to collaborate in a U.S. Department of Energy research-and-development initiative. (Read more)

Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc., which designs, develops and markets highly efficient renewable energy and energy conservation products in the solar and LED lighting industries, plans to triple the size of its facility and add 68 employees in a relocation to Sarasota County. (Read more)

Officials from NASA joined Florida Power & Light Company to commission FPL's Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center. The new solar photovoltaic power facility is the result of a unique public-private partnership between NASA and FPL and demonstrates both organizations' commitment to bringing clean-energy solutions to the state. (Read more)

U.S. Gas & Electric, Inc., a leading energy service provider headquartered in Miami-Dade County, is expanding with a new business service center in the City of Doral. (Read more)

Saft, a French company that is described as a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-tech batteries, has broken ground at Cecil Commerce Center for a $200 million plant that will build advanced batteries for use in hybrid vehicles, aviation, renewable energy storage and other uses. (Read more)

Construction of the $5.1 million Gulf Power Co. landfill gas-to-energy facility is now under way at Perdido Landfill, where methane gas fumes from rotten garbage will be burned into enough renewable energy to power more than 900 homes. (Read more)

Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach in Martin County, the FPL Group utility is grafting the world's second-largest solar plant onto the back of the largest fossil-fuel power plant in the United States. (Read more)

The Stan Mayfield Biorefinery Pilot Plant, slated to be operational in spring 2011, will be operated as a UF/IFAS satellite laboratory facility concentrated on the use of cellulosic biomass to produce ethanol. (Read more)

Boca Raton's Protec Fuel Management has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to open thirty E85 stations. Protec is teaming up with General Motors, the Renewable Fuels Association and Urbieta Oil to open these alternative fueling outfits. (Read more)

Lakeland Electric and SunEdison, North America's largest solar energy services provider, have started the first roof top installation of what will total 24 megawatts of solar generated power. Once built out, the system will provide enough power to sustain approximately 7,200 homes with clean, environment friendly energy. (Read more)

California petroleum company, LS9, is opening a new Okeechobee facility to move its technology from proven pilot capabilities to commercial demonstration scale production. Once the building retrofit is complete, the facility will be the largest advanced biodiesel demonstration plant in the world. (Read more)

Bren-Tronics Energy Systems is opening a design and manufacturing facility in Alachua County to produce lithium-ion cells for rechargeable batteries. The company plans to invest about $10 million for renovations and new equipment. (Read more)