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Solar Energy Trade Shows Names Executive Director
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The Board of Managers of Solar Energy Trade Shows LLC (SETS) announced that Brian Tully will serve as executive director. SETS is a new joint venture formed by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (S ...

Booming Residential Solar Market in Arizona Drives Growth, Creates 50 Additional Green Collar Jobs at Leading Surprise Solar Power Installation Company, Salt River Solar & Wind
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As a result of Arizona's booming solar industry, one of Arizona's largest and most successful solar installation companies, Salt River Solar & Wind (http://www.saltriverenergy.com), announced today that the company is planning to hire another 50 new ...

Residential Solar Customers Creating a Gold Mine in Arizona
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The Arizona Solar Power Society (http://www.arizonasolarsociety.com) reports that the residential solar market in Arizona is creating a gold mine of solar revenue. In the past 18 months, more than 275 residential solar installation companies have op ...

First Solar Signs 300-MW PPA with PG&E
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First Solar has signed a 300-megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) with electricity from a utility-scale solar photovoltaic power facility that First Solar is developing in Southern California. ...

PV Powered Inverters to be used with New Solar Panel Technology in Large Commercial Installation
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PV Powered, Inc., the innovation leader in solar inverter reliability, performance, and serviceability, announces that its commercial inverters have been installed in a new office building project in Lakewood, New Jersey that also employs new high-d ...

Australian Solar Shines in 2009
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Despite the global financial crisis, the Australian solar power industry grew a phenomenal 366% in 2009. Driven by a rebate that enabled "free" solar power systems to be sold, installations of grid connected solar power systems grew even eclipsed pa ...

Community Solar Gardens Help Renters Go Green, but Solar Companies are Concerned
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If you live rent an apartment, own a condominium, live in a shady neighborhood, or simply don’t want solar panels on your roof, residents of Colorado have a solution: community solar gardens. What’s a community solar garden? It’s a unique idea to ...

Loblaw Launches Four Rooftop Solar Pilot Projects
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As part of the company’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint through the use of renewable energy, Loblaw has launched a rooftop solar pilot project at four stores in Ontario –Ajax, Orleans, Toronto and Whitby. The Canadian food distributor has app ...

SunEdison To Build 72-MW Plant in Italy
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SunEdison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc, received final approval from the Italian government this week to develop and build a 72-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar power plant in Northeastern Italy, near the town of Rovigo. When complete ...

Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)
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Photo via press release The Joos Solar Charger makes some bold claims. First, the company states that it generates 20 times the charge of other personal solar chargers on the market. There is no data on their website showing exactly what numbers the ...

Minturn Huller PV Solar Energy System Goes Live With Canadian Solar PV Modules
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Canadian Solar Inc. ("the Company," "Canadian Solar" or "we") (Nasdaq: CSIQ), a leading vertically integrated provider of ingot, wafer, solar cell, solar module and other solar applications, today announced the activation of a 540kW ground-mount pho ...

Off-Grid Olympians
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by spy_vondega American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont - to live in her yurt. "Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees," she told People magazine, "and I love it there. "I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and ...

Data highlights on solar energy
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Concerns about global warming and oil insecurity have prompted calls for a new energy economy, one that replaces fossil fuels with renewables. The sun is an enormous reservoir of energy; in fact, the sunlight reaching Earth in just one hour is enough ...

Solar Power Inc. Gets US $24.7M in Recovery Zone Facility Bonds
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Solar Power Inc. has received an initial commitment of US $24.7 million in Recovery Zone Facility Bonds (RZFB) by Sacramento County and is exploring plans to open a manufacturing facility within Sacramento County to build its solar panels. ...

CANADIAN SOLAR ANNOUNCES THE "WIN WITH CANADIAN SOLAR CONTEST
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Canadian Solar Inc. ("the Company," "Canadian Solar" or "we") (Nasdaq: CSIQ) one of the world's largest solar companies, today announced the "Win With Canadian Solar Contest" launch in SolarPro magazine, the technical publication for solar industry ...

Why the utilities can't afford to ignore Concentrated Solar Power
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CSP Today talks to Dr Fred Morse, Chairman, Utility-Scale Solar Power Division, U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association and speaker at the upcoming 4th Concentrated Solar Power Summit USA this June 24-25, about current constraints on CSP in the US ...

MEMC to make Europe's largest solar plant in Italy
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MEMC Electronics Materials Inc. said Thursday that its solar power subsidiary SunEdison has received final approval from the Italian government to build Europe's largest solar power plant near Rovigo in northeastern Italy. ...

Improving the Performance of Solar Thermal Electrical Power
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The US Department of Energy granted a US$1.37 billion loan guarantee to Brightsource Energy last week which could help clear the way for over 15 gigawatts of solar thermal power projects in California. Brightsource built a pilot plant in Israel to pr ...

notvothink solar surge charger now available
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Novothink Solar Surge is now available for all you iPod Touch and iPhone 3G users. The solar-powered Surge, the only Apple-certified solar charging case, can double the battery life of Apple iPhone and iPod Touch via solar energy. Surge combines a ...

Is the UK subsidy for solar PV a good use of scarce funds?
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• I accept George Monbiot's £100 solar PV bet • George Monbiot: There is no 'green treachery' in questioning this solar panel rip-off The Guardian web pages are reverberating to the clash of arms between George Monbiot and UK supporters of feed-in t ...

Yokohama Tires funds Sunstang solar car program
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission all-electric vehicle fueled by solar energy. Yokohama Tire Canada is funding the Sunstang car program at the University of Western Ontario. The program, which is being developed by a team of engineering students, will be ex ...

On Rooftops Worldwide, a Solar Water Heating Revolution
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by Lester R. Brown The harnessing of solar energy is expanding on every front as concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossi ...

Start-Up Makes Solar Cells Cheap Enough to Compete with Fossil Fuels
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The most efficient solar tech on the market today is the silicon solar cell. There’s just one drawback–implementing the tech costs up to $4 per watt, almost four times the cost of fossil fuel-derived electricity. Luckily, an innovative new production ...

Concentrated Solar Power Isn't Just for Deserts, It Could be for Walls Too
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Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it's referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse's Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this technolog ...

Solar PV failed in Germany and will fail here
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Our tariff plan is near-identical to Germany's – that's the one that produced woeful amounts of energy, jobs and innovation Jeremy Leggett: I accept George Monbiot's £100 solar PV bet Let me begin with a plea to tone down this debate on feed-in tari ...

Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas consolidates the financing of its first solar thermal plant in Badajoz, Spain
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The achieved financing for the project rises to EUR 275 million. The technology developed by Aries positions the company as the standard of international efficiency in the development of concentrated solar power projects. ...

Italy green-lights largest PV solar plant in Europe
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SunEdison's 72-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant finds a home in Italy's Veneto region. ...

Solar Headwinds, Part I
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How Solar PV is like Ethanol Tom Konrad, CFA High levels of competition in the the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry mean that buy-and-hold investors should look elsewhere. In May 2007, I published a competitive analysis of the corn Ethanol industry ...

Canada's Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
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Photo: Google Maps Loblaw Couldn't Resist Ontario's Generous Feed-in Tariff? Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 10 ...

SunPower Gets 200MW Order From Southern California Edison
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by Alison Kroulek SunPower just announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide SunPower T5 Solar Roof Tiles to generate up to 200 megawatts of solar energy. With this contract, SunPower will provide 80 percent of the energy needed for Sout ...

Sundrop Fuels Uses Concentrated Solar Heat to Vaporize Biomass
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The technology sounds ultra-futuristic: concentrated solar heat that can vaporize biomass (wood, crop waste, etc.) into synthetic fuels. But the process, developed by Sundrop Fuels, is real, and it can produce twice the amount of gasoline or diesel t ...

10 MW Dubai Skyscraper Generates 10 Times More Renewable Energy Than It Needs
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Alanod-Solar Unveils Laser Welding Solar Thermal Production Facility
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Alanod-Solar this week, unveiled a high capacity laser welding facility located in North Ridgeville, Ohio. This facility will manufacture and distribute the company's laser welded Miro-Fin absorber fins for solar thermal collectors. ...

Energy saving begins at home: a Renewable Energy Specialist installs a double dose of solar power at his own house
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It's no surprise that professionals working in any renewable energy field are aware of the practical, carbon-saving benefits of installing solar energy in their own homes. For Tony Almond, boss of Planet Energy Solutions, that meant a double dose of ...