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EPIA Challenges European Students To Create Videos To Dispel Solar Myths
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Brown University Identifies Hungry Microbe That Could be Key to Turning Biomass Into Biofuel
The quick rise and depressing downward spiral of the ethanol industry proved that using...
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In the United States, we have paved over 160 billion square feet of land simply to provide...
Power One And Panasonic Team Up For Energy Storage Plan
PV Magazine noted the companies will use Panasonic’s lithium-ion batteries and systems...
World Solar PV Capacity Surpasses 100 Gigawatts In 2012
This bright news below brings the message that people are changing, things are changing....
REC Supplies 10 MW For Two Solar Power Plant Installations In India
REC has announced that it was the exclusive supplier of high-performance solar panels...
SunPower and US Bancorp to Finance Residential Solar Lease Projects
SunPower has announced a new program with U.S. Bancorp to expand financing options available...
PROINSO supplies 100kW to several net metering PV projects in Brazil
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Suntech Powers Largest Solar PV System in Saudi Arabia
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Asia Report: Is Japan’s Solar Market Overheating?
Most of the projections we’ve seen for 2013′s biggest solar markets (Solarbuzz,...Operations, Maintenance, and Solar Sheep
As gigawatts of commercial- and utility-scale PV power plants spring up around the...
CSP giants Abengoa, BrightSource partner on giant Palen Solar project
Two of the giant concentrating solar power (CSP) companies, Abengoa and BrightSource...
Loans of $2 Billion Weighed by U.S. for Clean Energy Projects
The U.S. Energy Department is reviewing nine applications from companies seeking...
Energy Efficiency Loans Encounter Obstacles in the Secondary Market
Although connecting energy efficiency programs and private capital may seem like...Suntech Plunges As Reckoning Day Comes
I rarely write about the same company 3 times in a single week, but in this case...environment
UK Government Ready To Give Green Light To New Nuclear Power Station At Hinkley
The News: Planning permission would now be a formality if French firm EDF Energy decides to go ahead...
Loans of $2 Billion Weighed by U.S. for Clean Energy Projects
The U.S. Energy Department is reviewing nine applications from companies seeking $4.8 billion in energy-related...Crowdfunding Coming of Age in Cleantech
With early stage capital for cleantech innovation becoming increasingly scarce, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo...
It’s Rocky, but the Transition to Clean Energy is Well Underway
The sequester. Continued Congressional gridlock. Declining levels of venture capital funding. High-profile...Clean Break Inspires Americans to Pursue “Energy Change”
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing...
US Had $1.63 Billion Clean Energy Surplus with China
The U.S. sold more renewable energy and power management products to China in 2011 than it imported,...
German Utility RWE to Cut Clean Energy Spending by Half from 2014 to Curb Debt
RWE AG will cut renewable-energy investment by half from next year as Germany’s second-largest...
China Boosts Energy, Emissions Goals After Record Pollution
China will step up efforts to cut its emissions and improve energy efficiency this year after record...
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Energy Efficiency Loans Encounter Obstacles in the Secondary Market
Although connecting energy efficiency programs and private capital may seem like...
Solar Startup Alta Devices Sets Efficiency Record, Works on New Cell Design
Alta Devices, which engineers solar cells with more exotic materials, has achieved...Office Depot Receives Climate Leadership Award from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Company Recognized for Achieving 29 Percent Carbon Footprint Reduction in the U.S.,...
Amonix, Solar Junction Plot CPV Efficiency Gains, Lower Costs
The two current record-holders in concentrated solar PV (CPV) cell and module technology...fossil fuel
What Do Struggling Gas-Fired Plants Mean for Renewables? - Mar 17 2013
Three years ago, Germany’s largest utility spent 400 million euros ($523 million) building a natural gas-fired power station. Later this month, the company may close the plant because it’s...
Solar booms in 2012, more expected in 2013 even as solar faces headwinds from fossil fuel - Mar 14 2013
Solar is continuing to become a more important part of the U.S.’s energy mix as it continues to grow at a rapid pace—in fact the amount of solar added online in the U.S. in 2012 was 76 percent...
Coal Plants Out Of Style In Germay - Mar 12 2013
Germany’s renewable energy revolution is a big deal. It gives people in other countries more hope that they can implement the same (and several countries and cities have done so to some degree...solar energy
Asia Report: Is Japan’s Solar Market Overheating?
Most of the projections we’ve seen for 2013′s biggest solar markets (Solarbuzz, IHS iSuppli, Deutsche Bank) put Japan as #4 behind China, the...
Florida’s Broward County Encourages Solar Energy with Easier Permits
Making energy from the sun seems a no-brainer for the Sunshine State, but cost has proven to be a hurdle. Broward County has taken a big step to cut costs...
Ready or Not: Arizona Takes Steps Toward Incentive Free Solar
Over the past several years Arizona has become one of the fastest growing solar markets in the United States due in large part to a strong policy framework...Operations, Maintenance, and Solar Sheep
As gigawatts of commercial- and utility-scale PV power plants spring up around the world on a monthly basis, one critical industry sector that’s...
CSP giants Abengoa, BrightSource partner on giant Palen Solar project
Two of the giant concentrating solar power (CSP) companies, Abengoa and BrightSource Energy have agreed to jointly develop, build and operate the 500 MW...
Week in review: Solar booms into 2012 and beyond
Last week the U.S. solar industry reported that the amount of newly installed solar power was 76 percent higher in 2012 than in 2011. And while that’s...Popular News
