Asia Report: Is Japan’s Solar Market Overheating?
Published on Mar 20 2013 // business, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
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- 11:53 pm » Florida’s Broward County Encourages Solar Energy with Easier Permits
- 11:46 pm » Ready or Not: Arizona Takes Steps Toward Incentive Free Solar
- 11:38 pm » Operations, Maintenance, and Solar Sheep
- 1:48 am » CSP giants Abengoa, BrightSource partner on giant Palen Solar project
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Florida’s Broward County Encourages Solar Energy with Easier Permits
Published on Mar 20 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
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 for solar-panel systems on rooftops and homeowners, businesses and other counties are taking notice, a Go Solar conference showed Friday.
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Ready or Not: Arizona Takes Steps Toward Incentive Free Solar
Published on Mar 20 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
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 coupled with excellent market fundamentals. However, as of February 2013 Arizona’s solar incentive program was severely curtailed and uncertainty...
Operations, Maintenance, and Solar Sheep
Published on Mar 20 2013 // business, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
CSP giants Abengoa, BrightSource partner on giant Palen Solar project
Published on Mar 20 2013 // business, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
Two of the giant concentrating solar power (CSP) companies, Abengoa and BrightSource Energy have agreed to jointly develop, build and operate the 500 MW Palen Solar Power Project. BrightSource purchased the Palen project from Solar Millennium, which went bankrupt. But now the two CSP companies will...
DOI approves 1.1 GWs of renewable projects in Southwest
Published on Mar 20 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business, renewable energy
Earlier this week, and perhaps as his last salvo in office before retiring as Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, announced approval of three new giant renewable energy projects, the McCoy Solar Energy Project, the Desert Harvest Solar Farm and the Searchlight Wind Energy Project. Secretary Salazar...
Fukushima Nuclear Fall Out Still Nowhere Near Being Contained. No More Now Surely?
Published on Mar 20 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business
India Set to Auction More Solar Capacity than Planned this Year
Published on Mar 20 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
India, which plans to raise solar capacity eightfold by 2017, will probably auction more megawatts than planned this fiscal year in a bid to cut chronic power shortages in the world’s second most-populous nation.
The government will tender 750 megawatts of capacity in the first week of May, kicking...
Loans of $2 Billion Weighed by U.S. for Clean Energy Projects
Published on Mar 20 2013 // business, Energy, Environment, Money and Business
The U.S. Energy Department is reviewing nine applications from companies seeking $4.8 billion in energy-related loan guarantees, the first since the collapse of Solyndra unleashed an avalanche of Republican criticism.
A Government Accountability Office report today showed applications for eight energy-efficiency...
Abu Dhabi Boosts Solar Power 10-Fold with Shams CSP Plant, Plans for Increased Growth
Published on Mar 19 2013 // economy, Energy, Money and Business, solar energy
