WASHINGTON, DC – Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President and CEO Rhone Resch has released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s FY 2011 budget for the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Program.
“This budget conveys the administration’s commitment to the continued growth of the solar industry as we help put Americans back to work across the country, especially in areas like America’s manufacturing centers that have been hit hardest by the recession. As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provisions, solar installations continued to grow by 40 percent and created nearly 20,000 jobs in 2009, highlighting that solar is one of the best policy investments around.
On Thursday 21 January, Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, accompanied by a delegation of political representatives, visited the joint stand of the companies SENER and Torresol Energy at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), the renewable power trade.
Petratherm advises that its wholly owned subsidiary, GeoSolar Limited, has been renamed Heliotherm Limited to reflect that its primary role is solar thermal technology development.
1,500 m2 of large collectors from solar specialists TiSUN were installed during the refurbishment of Hungary’s biggest municipal housing block
Through a charitable donation of $3500, First Light Solar (a division of FLS Energy), an Asheville-based solar energy company, becomes key sponsor of Mars Hill College Cycling and helps create a Green Cycling Team in the process.
Cool Energy, Inc., a developer of clean energy heat and power generating systems, today announced the performance of its Stirling engine, called the SolarHeart® Engine, has surpassed its specified electrical power output of 1,500 watts.
Bechtel Construction Company and two labor organizations today announced an agreement for the construction of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System, a 440-megawatt solar thermal power facility in southeastern California.
Only four months after breaking ground, Tessera Solar and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) showcased the highly anticipated Maricopa Solar power plant at a special event for key partners, stakeholders and media. Maricopa Solar is the first commercial project for the SunCatcherTM concentrating solar power (CSP) technology designed and manufactured by SES. Joining in the celebration were Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and officials from Salt River Project (SRP), local and state government, the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, utility customers, suppliers and NTR plc, Tessera Solar and SES’s majority shareholder.
Public acceptance of solar water heating around the world is increasing as people work to reduce their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprints. Solar heating has been widely used on small scale for many years in countries such as China and Africa. The U.S., as with all forms of renewable energy has been much slower to adopt this technology but recently some good news has been announced in the state of California.
SHEC has been a world leader in clean renewable hydrogen research and is about to become one of the world leaders in hydrogen production with its innovative use of the sun’s energy to create hydrogen from landfill gas. Not only will SHEC create a valuable fuel source, but it will do so by using a form of renewable methane and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites.
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mubadala Development Company, and SENER, a leading international multidiscipline engineering company, with offices in Abu Dhabi, has secured US$760 million project finance loans for the construction of its twin Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants – Valle 1 and Valle 2 – in Andalucía, Spain
Solar thermal energy has the potential to supply a significant fraction of the world’s energy needs if we learn to harness it effectively and to store its energy for use when we have times of high demand. An Australian company has been working on a technology that may be able to do just that. Solar Fusion Power has designed a complete system which can absorb the sunlight during the day and produce continuous, cost competitive, electricity. Its novel design allows for modular configuration for large scale solar power production, in GWatt quantities.
