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- 5 Simple Home Solar Power Options
CalFinder (Today) - Even as the cost of home solar falls, the cost of conventional electricity continues to rise. The Energy Information Administration predicts that energy consumption will more than double by 2035 worldwide. Homeowners are starting to look at solar energy as protection against future price...
- Biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity
ScienceDaily (Today) - Scientists have developed a system that taps into photosynthetic processes to produce efficient and inexpensive energy....
- Solapoint Selects Alpha-Omega Solar Simulator
eSolar News (Today) - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alpha-Omega Power Technologies, LLC, a leading provider of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar simulators and test systems, announced the purchase of its GEN2 Solar Simulator by Solapoint Corp. Solapoint, Taiwan is one of the first companies dedicated to the business of III-V solar...
- New DC Cabling Solution by Amphenol, Powered by Ampt, Reduces Costs of PV Systems
- Renewable Energy Powers Super Bowl XLVI: Travel Offsets and Solar Energy Expand “Greening”
- Sacramento Region Clean Tech Companies Generate Revenue Exceeding $1.5 Billion
- JI to Host Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Conference Call and Live Webcast
- São Paulo’s Ecovila Residence Receives Brazil’s First Solar Track
Inhabitat (Today) - The Ecovila, located on the coast of São Paulo, is the first residential structure in Brazil to install solar panels that follow the motion of the sun. The solar system, along with two wind turbines, will provide enough energy for lighting and water pumping to support...
- India’s Solar Power Revolution Could Have Global Effect
CleanTechies (Today) - India has a Solar Mission to install 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. Solar electricity is already cheaper than electricity produced with diesel generators. These optimistic figures from India, the second most populated country in the world, has led the New Scientist magazine to...
- MIT Researchers Find a Way To Make Solar Panels from Grass Clippings
- Kansas City Royals Powered by Solar
Solar Power Buzz (Today) - Kansas City Royals will have the largest in-stadium solar array in Major League Baseball. The south-facing 120 panel array will provide some of the power for Kauffman Stadium without any distracting glare for batters at the plate. Kansas City Power & Light and Royals agreement...
- Mirror Carousel to increase efficiency of tower power stations
Sun & Wind (Today) - In addition to Plataforma Solar de Almería, the Spanish research centre CTAER plans to test a new concept for tower power stations. ......
- San Jose: The Fastest-Growing California Solar City in 2012
- MiaSole Achieves Efficiency Milestone for Panel Production
- Want to Own a Net-Zero Energy Home? It’s Now Possible at KB Home in Las Vegas
- GT Advanced Technologies Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results
- Vincent Policard Joins KKR as Director of the Infrastructure Team
- Victor Lee is Appointed CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies
- VTA Installs Solar Power Systems at Its Three Bus Yards
- BrightSource Energy’s Power Tower Technology Selected by Sasol for South African Solar Power Plant Design
- Suniva Powers 1 MW Solar Farm at Chattanooga Airport
- Siemens to Implement U.S. Army's Largest Solar Photovoltaic System at White Sands Missile Range
- MEMC Schedules Fourth Quarter Conference Call
- NYC Energy Map by Columbia U’s Modi Research Group Shows Statistical Energy Use by NYC Block
Solar One (Yesterday) - Click on the image above to explore this fascinating interactive map of energy use by building across the city. Usage was calculated statistically, based on this study on spatial distribution of urban energy consumption (in other words, no utility records or private information was used)....
- Putting Every Inch to Use for Energy Creation – Aquate Introduces Solar Reservoir Covers
- LS Power Taps Fluor to Build 125 MW Arizona Solar Plant
EnergyBoom (Yesterday) - Fluor Corporation, the nation's largest publicly traded engineering and construction company, said this week that it has been selected by a subsidiary of electricity generator LS Power Group to build a 125-megawatt solar plant in Arizona. Fluor was also awarded a separate contract for...
- National Solar Power Continues to Grow its Pipeline in Florida
- Arizona’s Buckeye Union High School District Dedicates 4.29-Megawatt Solar Generation Project from Constellation Energy
- SunPower Closes Acquisition of Tenesol SA
- MidAmerican Renewables, LLC Completes Acquisition of 550-MegawattAC Topaz Solar Farm from First Solar
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