Nearly two years after the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the energy industry, some of the biggest companies in the world are busy pointing their legal fingers at one another in court over who has to pay what in claims, damages and fines over the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue. Sandia scientists, in partnership with Jamie Johnson of Solar Power Electric™, [...]
Southwest Solar Technologies Inc. announced today its development program for a solar thermal technology that will serve industrial needs for process heat and steam. The solar thermal application leverages the Company’s solar dish and other core competencies and will be a new addition to its product portfolio. Industrial heat accounts for a very large share [...]
GreenVolts, Inc., provider of the industry’s first and only complete and fully integrated solar system, today announced a strategic partnership with Independent Solar Developers (ISD), a turnkey solar system developer, owner, and operator that specializes in providing solar energy solutions for Southern California agricultural applications. Using solar energy for agriculture is a large and untapped [...]
A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity — not changes in solar activity — are the primary force driving global warming. The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth’s energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth’s surface and the amount returned [...]
The market for solar installations based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film panels will nearly double in size to $2.35 billion in 2015, as manufacturers signaled a breakout year in 2011 by taking advantage of falling production costs, improving module conversion inefficiencies and increasing adoption in commercial rooftops, according to a Lux Research report titled, “Sorting [...]
This week, the Sierra Club’s Voter Education Fund released the latest video for the Club’s Real Republicans project. This installment contrasts the candidates’ actual words about the dangerous Keystone XL project with the influence Big Oil money has had on their political careers. Click here to watch. “These candidates have a lot to say about how much they [...]
California’s overlooked treasure contains “mud pots” that emit mostly CO2, which can be used with the company’s breakthrough technology to produce renewable natural gas SANTA BARBARA. The developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen and natural gas using water and solar power, today announced that the numerous “mud pots” found in and around [...]
The recent increase in South Africa’s power tariffs in, together with greater policy and regulatory certainty has made the country a more attractive renewable energy investment prospect than ever. London, CSP Today Independent Power Producers (IPPs), both in Europe and on the greater African continent, are clamouring to enter the next big CSP market. For [...]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III office in Lisle, Illinois, has activated its incident response center and entered monitoring mode due to an Unusual Event declared at the Byron nuclear power plant Unit 2. The event was declared due to a loss of offsite power at 10:18 a.m. CT. The two-unit plant is operated by [...]
America’s 3,000 fossil fuel-burning power plants continue to produce two-thirds of the region’s electricity and, at the same time, generate the majority of certain harmful air pollutants and emit more greenhouse gases than any other industrial sector. North American Power Plant Air Emissions, a new report and database released today by the Commission for Environmental [...]
GlassPoint Solar, the leader in solar enhanced oil recovery, has received the Platts Global Energy Commercial Technology of the Year award. Open to commercially applied innovation, GlassPoint’s solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) solution was selected for its practicality, reliability and overall commercial success. “In the past year, we’ve brought solar EOR from concept to commercial [...]
Historic ‘mercury and air toxics standards’ meet 20-year old requirement to cut dangerous smokestack emissions WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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