Oregon Institute of Technology has added five new faculty members, Ryan Wang, PhD, Feng Shi, PhD, Hope Corsair, PhD, Chad Stillinger, PhD, and Teshome Jiru, PhD, to its Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering (EEREE) department this academic year. Corsair, Stillinger and Jiru are located at Oregon Tech’s Portland metro-area campuses, and join four full-time [...]
SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants in the U.S., will build a 10-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array near Kingman, Arizona, to provide affordable renewable power to customers of UniSource Energy Services (UES). SOLON will provide the energy to UES through a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) that allows [...]
NEW YORK, NY. Solar stocks have been crushed in recent months as worries regarding the Eurozone’s debt raised concerns on solar’s growth prospects. Solar stocks are finally showing signs of recovery this week as EU debt negotiations are showing some progress towards an agreement. Based on a study looking at five major solar markets — [...]
Arizona Public Service Co. and First Solar announced the completion of the 17-megawatt (MW) Paloma Solar Power Plant — the first facility to reach commercial operation as part of the AZ Sun Program. Earlier this week, APS also placed the Cotton Center Solar Plant in commercial operation, the second AZ Sun facility to come online. [...]
GE’s GeoSpring™ water heater reduces utility bills, saves hundreds of dollars When the Western Arizona Council of Government (WACOG) applied for a $2 million grant from the Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers (SERC) grant, Director Jack Valentine chose to offer Region IV’s constituents an easy way to reduce their monthly bills. We decided to go [...]
BADAJOZ, Spain. GE unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today it and German fund KGAL are jointly investing EUR111.1 million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, Spain. The GE unit and KGAL agreed to invest structured equity in Extresol II, developed [...]
GE investing hundreds of millions of dollars to increase solar power across the grid from the utility to homes and commercial properties With the goal of making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on rooftops more affordable for home and building owners, a team of scientists and engineers from GE Global Research, the technology development arm for [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – The Sierra Club, the largest and most influential environmental advocacy group in the country, is pleased to announce the screening schedule and panel discussions at the first ever Green Festival in Los Angeles. The Green Cinema is a collection of informative and entertaining environmental documentaries, short films and theatrical trailers, in addition [...]
NEW YORK – Oriented toward the arc of the sun, Cornell University’s proposed New York City Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island will capture a large, daily dose of solar power and will use the Earth’s generous internal, thermal power as an additional energy source. The main educational building, a home for the Cornell and Technion [...]
LINCOLN, NE – Today Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman announced that he will call a special legislative session to consider rerouting a proposed pipeline that would pump Canadian tar sands crude oil, one of the world’s dirtiest fuels, 1,700 miles across six U.S. states to the Gulf Coast. The Governor and other Nebraska elected officials have [...]
Principal Solar, Inc, a publicly traded renewable energy holding company which concentrates its resources on rapidly advancing the inevitable, worldwide utilization of solar energy through a unique roll-up strategy, announced today that Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Doctor of Science (MIT), aeronautical engineer, retired United States Air Force Colonel, decorated fighter pilot, and legendary astronaut who served [...]
JUNO BEACH, Fla. – NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the competitive energy subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) and North America’s leading generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, announces the commissioning of the Hatch Solar Center, located in Hatch, N.M. The 5-megawatt Hatch facility is comprised of 84 Amonix 60-kilowatt units, and [...]
The Nigerian Million March Project has announced its intention to organize peaceful marches in major cities around the world to call attention to the Nigerian government’s failure to provide sufficient and reliable electricity to its 150 million citizens, despite the country being Africa’s largest oil exporter. The marches, scheduled for 24 October, are planned for [...]
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