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Sol Systems, LLC and Cooley LLP are happy to announce a webinar series on bankable solar contracts for solar installers, developers and investors. Each webinar in the series will lead participants through key terms and issues of a different contract and will provide an opportunity for Q&A. The webinars will be hosted by Sol Systems’ CEO, Yuri Horwitz, Cooley Clean Energy and Technologies group attorneys and guest panelists.

The webinar series is a complement to the strategic collaboration announced by Sol Systems and Cooley last fall. Through this collaboration, Cooley developed a suite of legal e-documents and tailored consulting services for Sol Systems’ SolMarket users. SolMarket is a transaction-driven community that facilitates solar project origination and investment and currently has more than $1.7 billion in aggregate partnership funds. Members of the SolMarket community have access to this network of business funding as well as transaction and financial resources. SolMarket members can view and utilize Cooley’s form legal templates as well as request direct consultations with Cooley attorneys.

“The Cooley collaboration and our suite of legal templates are critical to our overarching goal of driving efficiencies and uniformity into the solar space,” declared Horwitz. “Cooley and Sol Systems are focused on connecting a fragmented solar industry and helping solar companies operate more efficiently.”

“This collaboration with Sol Systems is part of Cooley’s deep commitment to the innovative delivery of legal services and business insight in the clean energy and technology space,” explained Cooley Partner Tom Amis, co-chair of the firm’s Clean Energy and Technologies practice. “SolMarket is rapidly becoming a go-to resource for some of the most exciting and ambitious players in the solar and clean energy space, from across the United States and further afield.”

Webinar Series Schedule

* Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 12:30 pm EDT: Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Agreements Register
* Wednesday, February 29 at 12:30 pm EDT: Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) Register
* Wednesday, March 14 at 12:30 pm EDT: Securing Site Control Register
* Wednesday, March 28 at 12:30 pm EDT: Developing a Solar Lease Register

Questions regarding the webinars should be directed to info@solmarket.com and interested participants can sign up by visiting solmarket.com/events.

About Cooley LLP

Cooley’s 650 attorneys located throughout the U.S. and in China have an entrepreneurial spirit and deep, substantive experience, and are committed to solving clients’ most challenging legal matters. From small business with big ideas to international enterprises with diverse legal needs, Cooley has the breadth of legal resources to enable companies of all sizes to seize opportunities in today’s global marketplace. The firm represents clients across a broad array of dynamic industry sectors, including technology, life sciences, venture capital, clean energy, real estate and retail.

Cooley Clean Energy and Technologies group attorneys have been singularly focused on the renewable energy sector for over a decade. Cooley’s comprehensive strength throughout the clean energy value chain, from emerging cleantech startups to utility and refinery scale deployment, is unique among law firms and provides a compelling value proposition for our clients.

About SolMarket

SolMarket is a transaction-driven ecosystem for the solar industry that catalyzes investment in solar energy by transforming how solar projects are financed. SolMarket provides investors and developers with the tools they need to efficiently originate, evaluate, finance, and construct renewable energy projects. SolMarket has over $1.7 billion in committed partnership funds seeking qualified solar projects and hundreds of users from the solar community. SolMarket is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sol Systems.

About Sol Systems

Sol Systems, LLC is a Washington D.C. based solar finance firm, and the largest solar renewable energy credit (SREC) aggregator in the nation. Through its SREC offerings, it has promoted the development of the solar market by providing long-term business financing options for SRECs, facilitating over $100 million in solar development.

E.ON Climate & Renewables North America reported at the moment it has obtained $122.2 million of institutional equity capital from JPM Capital Corporation and Wells Fargo Wind Holdings LLC in exchange for a partial interest in its recently completed Settlers Trail Wind Farm. JP Morgan acted as lead investor in the business financing.

“EC&R constantly looks to determine the most beneficial economic structures best suited for its projects,” said Dr. Verena Volpert, Senior Vice President Finance, E.ON AG. “For this project, teaming with JP Morgan and Wells Fargo made the most sense.”

The endeavor, the pioneer wind farm inside Iroquois County, Ill., is located 10 miles west of Watseka and consists of 94 GE 1.6 megawatt turbines providing more than 150 megawatts (MW) of power, enough to provide clean power to more than 45,000 households in the central Illinois region using North American made windmill turbines, blades and towers.

“Wind farms generate clean, affordable, homegrown electricity, creating jobs, providing an economic shot in the arm to farmers, ranchers, and rural communities across America,” said Steve Trenholm, CEO, EC&RNA. “JP Morgan and Wells Fargo were natural partners due to their leadership and experience in the tax equity market.”

This particular project is anticipated to bring in greater than $29 million in community taxes, pay out $8 million in local salaries, and earn landowners more than $20 million. At the height of construction, the Settlers Trail Wind Farm project brought more than 200 jobs to the area.

E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) is responsible for the E.ON group’s renewable energy and environmental protection activities around the world. Tapping renewable energy sources offers enormous alternatives, both from a business perspective and for the environment. E.ON Climate & Renewables will be investing euro 7 billion in renewable energy and environmental protection projects over the next five years to expand the share of renewable energy in E.ON’s portfolio for the long term. E.ON has thus taken a leading role in developing alternative energy solutions all over the world.

NVR, Inc., among the country’s major homebuilding and home loan banking corporations, announces the grand opening up of the fresh, decorated Clifton Park model home, plus savings of up to $50,000 on new single family homes at Scaleby Farm in West Chester, Pennsylvania. These luxury single family homes are priced from the upper $690′s and offer wooded, 2+ acre homesites in Chester County.

Scaleby Farm is NVHomes’ latest enclave involving executive-style single family residences in West Chester, Pennsylvania, combining prime location, just seconds off scenic Route 52, with high end, estate-style living, supplying homeowners more space, inside and outside. With sizable homesites with a minimum of 2 acres, and wide ranging landscapes of the rolling Chester County countryside, your family will have plenty of room to play and entertain. The group at Scaleby Farm is also a easy drive towards shopping, dining and charm of down-town West Chester, and provides simple driving times to points in Pennsylvania or Delaware.

The new Clifton Park model home at Scaleby Farm is astounding in size with 4 or more bedrooms and 4 or more baths with interiors starting at 4,576 square feet. The list of included features is sizable as well, with architecturally dimensional shingles and beaded siding, stone and stucco accented exteriors, 3-car side-entry garages, hardwood flooring in the foyer, gas fireplaces, optional woodstove hearths, and NVHomes’ Signature Kitchen, with granite countertops, maple Timberlake® cabinetry, stainless steel GE® appliances, hardwood flooring and our unique, European inspired range hood, hidden from view by furniture grade cabinetry.

NVHomes at Scaleby Farm are fully ENERGY STAR® Qualified, yielding monthly utility savings up to 30% more than standard homes, according to the EPA. All NVHomes also carry 10-year structural warranties and are independently inspected for quality by a third-party inspector.

NVR, Inc. operates in two business segments: homebuilding and mortgage banking. The homebuilding unit sells and builds homes under the NVHomes, Ryan Homes, Rymarc Homes and Fox Ridge Homes trade names, and operates in 27 metropolitan areas in 15 states.

MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. has just reported net profits for common shareholders of $879,000 in the last quarter of 2011, as opposed to net revenue provided to common stakeholders of $1.6 million claimed in the last quarter of the year 2010. Diluted earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $0.09 per common share, down from the $0.16 per common share for the fourth quarter of 2010.

C.R. “Rusty” Cloutier, President and Chief Executive Officer, commenting on fourth quarter results, remarked “In December, we completed the acquisition and systems conversion of the Beacon Federal branch in Tyler, Texas and First Louisiana National Bank in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. As a result, the fourth quarter included $0.08 per share of merger related expenses. Excluding these non-operating expenses, we had strong operating earnings per share in the quarter of $0.17 versus $0.14 in the third quarter. We are very excited to expand our market presence in Texas and Louisiana and look forward to the positive impact of these acquisitions on our franchise and to future earnings.”

Profits given for the Series B Preferred Stock totaled $400,000 for the last quarter of 2011 dependent on a dividend amount of 5%. In August 2011, the Company issued $32.0 million in Series B Preferred Stock to the Treasury in connection with the Small Business Lending Fund (“SBLF”). The dividend rate on the Series B Preferred Stock going forward will be between 1% and 5% based on the level of qualified small business loans. Linked-quarter net earnings available to common shareholders were impacted by the repayment of $20.0 million in Series A Preferred Stock issued to the Treasury under the Capital Purchase Plan with funds from the U.S. Treasury that were authorized by Congress under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.

By ignoring pretty much all bilateral arrangements and international laws and conventions on the customary intercontinental law involving Trans-boundary Waterways and Lakes, India has made the decision unilaterally to build Tipaimukh Dam for “so-called hydro-electricity” on the Barak River in the north-eastern Manipur state; while not considering the unfavorable affect the Dam would produce upon the environment and also bio-diversity of the lower riparian Bangladesh. If India desires to create suggested the Tipaimukh Dam unilaterally in infringement of the actual principles of equity, fairness and no harm approach to Bangladesh, then Bangladesh could well be eligible to wage an international legal showdown towards India just before the International Court of Justice to refrain India from constructing such Dam on the Barak River.

Aspen Technology, Inc., a prominent provider of software programs and solutions to the process sectors, declared that on January 9, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Tx entered a final judgment and lasting injunction in a lawsuit brought by AspenTech towards a previous AspenTech staff member, Dr. Tekin Kunt, for transgressions of Dr. Kunt’s privacy along with non-competition contract with AspenTech, in the claim entitled Aspen Technology, Inc. v Tekin A. Kunt and M3 Technology, Inc. AspenTech continues to maintain claims in this specific litigation in opposition to M3 Technology, Inc., Dr. Kunt’s former employer, including claims for copyright violation as well as misappropriation of business secrets relating to AspenTech’s exclusive software.

Within Vicksburg, Mississippi, Warren County Tax Assessor Angela Brown would like to pull in various outside help to work towards property reappraisal. The Vicksburg Post reports that Brown, who had been elected in The fall, told managers that she wanted the support to reappraise 25 % of Warren County’s real property the following four years. Brown wanted supervisors Monday to engage Louisville, Miss.-based appraiser Wes Kight and Associates LLC to perform state-mandated property roll up-grades for $135,000 each year through fiscal 2015.

A Southern Texas guy continued to be in custody Wednesday right after law enforcement officials located a jacket along with a firearm with blood upon them in his car ten blocks from the state welfare business office where his common-law wife was found bloodied in the restroom. She subsequently died in a medical facility. Vidal Ben Garcia III, 25, was being kept for a murder offense in the passing away of 26-year-old Kimberly Lee Gonzalez, reported by Alice Law enforcement Chief Daniel Bueno.

Owens Corning, a major international leader in building materials and energy performance answers, proclaimed today that Owens Corning Roofing and Asphalt launched the revolutionary System Advantage Platinum Limited Lifetime Warranty exclusively available to Owens Corning Roofing Platinum Preferred Contractors. Beginning Feb. 1, 2012, the new Platinum Warranty provides Owens Corning Roofing Platinum Preferred Contractors the opportunity to offer up homeowners limited life-time craftsmanship warranty coverage for roofs placed on individual family detached homes. This new enhanced offering will upgrade the Platinum Promise Limited Guarantee which at present covers craftsmanship for up to 25 years.

A British judge said not long ago that there’s prima facie evidence for admitting an extradition court case against Ravi Shankaran, an integral charged inside the Naval War Room leak case, but asked the criminal prosecution to produce further proof by January 27. “Prima facie there is evidence (for admitting the case). I would like to give opportunity to the Defence to call for evidence they want. The case will come up before the court at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 27 when the Prosecution and Defence will exchange evidences,” stated Westminster Magistrate Court District Judge Nicholas Evans.

Apple is investing a big wager on China, where its offerings have proven hugely well-liked, nevertheless that might also leave it subjected to several bad failures along the way: the company is at present getting sued by a group of Chinese authors, who are blaming the firm of copyright infringement over some publications available to buy in its app store. It’s an ironic turn of occurrences, considering the fact that Apple has been battling extensive copyright breach of its own in the nation, by means of fake goods. The collection of nine writers, functioning under the China Written Works Copyright Society, maintain that some 37 pieces have been published in Apple’s App Store without having their permission. Their 12-billion-yuan ($1.9 million) suit came into formal proceedings in Beijing last week, according to the English format of the China business information site Caixin Online.