SCE launches solar rooftop project
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 | Southern California Edison (SCE) is spreading the renewable energy love with its new solar rooftop project. The company recently awarded contracts to 36 independent power producers to help install solar arrays on 31 rooftops and five ground-based sit ... |
Luminous Solar Cynergy Pavers Light up the Night in Dallas
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 | 17Seventeen is a stunning new sustainable building in the heart of Dallas that is “paving” the way for energy-efficient lighting through the use of Solar Cynergy’s self-contained, solar powered LED stepping stones. These brilliant solar pavers captur ... |
U.S. Navy Soars into Solar Energy Future to the Tune of $100 Million
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 | The U.S. Navy is getting serious about solar energy and has just awarded five contracts worth up to $100 million for the design, installation and management of solar arrays at Navy and Marine Corps facilities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico ... |
U.S. Navy awards $100 million contacts to boost future of solar energy
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 | Eco Factor: U.S. Navy grants contracts to design, install and manage solar arrays. The U.S. Navy’s association with solar power dates back in 2002 and this time around, it goes huge. The Navy has recently awarded five contracts worth up to $100 mill ... |
City of Corona Turns Bus Shelter into a Mini Power Plant
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 | City of Corona today unveiled to the public its newly installed solar bus shelter providing comfort to its public transportation customers while being capable of generating clean, renewable energy through a roof ornamented with highly efficient sola ... |
Utility-Scale Solar Power. In Rainy England?!
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 | Image credit: Ecotricity The introduction of solar feed-in tariffs in the UK caused great debate—with some claiming they were a rip off and solar was pointless in such a cloudy environment . Others clearly think differently, and Ecotricity—the renew ... |
Solar-Power Industry Hits Magic Number
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| In some places in the U.S. today, roof-rop solar photovoltaic, PV, technology already allows residential and commercial users to beat what their local utility charges for electricity generated from coal-fired power plants. ... |
SEPA Representatives Learn about Japanese Solar
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| This week 18 U.S. utility executives from Hawaii to Maine and all points in between are in Japan to see firsthand how the Japanese have worked to create a successful utility-scale solar landscape. The Solar Electric Power Association is leading the g ... |
Portland Now Has Largest Solar Array in the Northwest
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 | The largest rooftop solar array in the Pacific Northwest was finished this week. Portland General Electric (PGE) announced on Monday that it just finished the $14 million solar project that it started building in March. The array covers the roofs of ... |
DiCaprio Posts Pics Of Inception’s Solar Arrays
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 | The ‘razz received a nice little shout-out from Leonardo DiCaprio this afternoon on Facebook — with the actor promoting the article we wrote up on his involvement in bringing solar power to the set of his latest thriller Inception . In addition, Leo ... |
U.S. Utilities Get Solar Power Tour of Japan
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 | While the fossil fuel industry continues to wreak havoc over the American landscape in pursuit of coal , oil , and natural gas , U.S. utilities have started to make a collective shift toward safer and more secure sources of energy. Last spring, a u ... |
Residential Energy Storage Charges Up in California
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 | by David Link One significant trend in the electric utility market that is beginning to gather momentum is residential energy storage (RES). Like many renewable initiatives, California is the trailblazing state for RES. In 2006, Governor Schwarzeneg ... |
Solar Cool harnesses renewable energy to cool products
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 | Eco Factor: Solar-powered cooling machine concept. Designer Aija Golubeva has come up with a concept cooling machine that is fitted on a modified tricycle frame and uses solar energy to keep the contents below freezing point. Dubbed Solar Cool, the ... |
Decc calculator: go for nuclear or ramp up solar
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 | The new 'pathways' calculator lays out ways the UK could hit its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 Electricity generation in the UK will double. Cars, hot water and the heating of buildings will be electrified. A new nuclear ren ... |
WWF solar boat to protect marine life and environment
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 | Eco Factor: WWF boat is powered by photovoltaic panels on its roof. The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) has left no stone unturned to save wildlife. This time around, the leading wildlife and endangered species conservation organization is looking t ... |
