Earlier this week, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu was present at the announcement of California’s goal to generate 1/3 of its energy needs with renewable energy, including solar power, by 2020. In fact, the USDOE itself announced a $1.18 billion loan guarantee to SunPower Corporation to develop a 250 megawatt (MW) solar power [...]
Could smog in L.A. be a thing of the past? Government officials and industry leaders certainly hope so. In order to reach its renewable energy target of 35% by 2020 (35% of all electricity from renewable resources), Los Angeles is looking for ways to rely more heavily on solar power. A new solar power plant [...]
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Abundant sunshine, favorable governmental conditions and locations near high-voltage electrical transmission lines make Boulder City, Nevada the perfect place for solar energy. In fact, the city council just approved the fifth solar power plant for the city, called the Black Hills site, in the El Dorado Valley Energy Zone. Boulder City Nevada is the site [...]
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The 30 megawatt Cimarron Solar Facility recently started commercial operations and is one of the largest utility scale solar power plant in the U.S. While New Mexico is not usually thought of as warm, it does have plentiful sunshine! The new solar PV plant generates electricity for about 9,000 homes. The solar facility was developed [...]
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It only makes sense that remote villages – difficult to reach and off-grid – should rely on renewable resources like solar power to provide light, heat and other modern conveniences. For the first time ever, solar energy will light up two Egyptian villages. The Egyptian government has adopted solar energy initiatives to encourage more solar [...]
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No matter where you are in the world, solar power can be harnessed for clean, fossil-fuel free energy. On the island of Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands), a utility scale solar facility draws on the sunshine from this area known as “Eternal Spring,” off the western coast of Africa. Even though its a [...]
The State of Idaho is known for its potatoes. But now, it could be home to a production plant for the thinnest solar cells currently available. Boise Idaho announced last month that it was bringing a 10-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) power plant to the region. Then, this week Transform Solar revealed that a thin film solar [...]
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After the shenanigans of the Copenhagen Climate Summit last week, its refreshing news to hear about some serious efforts undertaken by a Southern California company on the renewable energy front. Solaren Corporation is talking about reaching up 22,000 miles above the earth’s surface, into outer space, for solar power. There are two major benefits to [...]
