New system uses wind, solar water heating and 7 other upgrades for hospitals, hotels, prisons and universities A combined research effort of Wind Inc., CorPlan Corrections, Visions Southwest, Solaire and Environmental Solutions has resulted in a new coordinated “renewable energy” system that can save large facilities, such as prisons and hospitals, huge amounts in energy. [...]
The Era of Low-Cost, Easy-to-Get Oil is Over What: Peak Oil News Conference When: Thursday, October 7 at 12:30 p.m. (Please note time change.) Where: National Press Club, Edward Murrow Room
The California Energy Commission today approved the construction of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project in the Mojave Desert. It is the fourth solar thermal power plant licensed by the Commission in the past month. In a unanimous vote, the Energy Commission adopted the presiding member’s proposed decision (PMPD) that recommended licensing the facility [...]
Solar Trust of America says its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received unanimous approval from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate its 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Thermal Power Project in Riverside County. This would be the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility in the world, the company says. The project [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). Eliminated during the last administration, SEAB is being re-established under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 12-member board comprising scientists, business executives, academics and former government officials, will serve as an independent advisory committee to DOE Secretary [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Justice Department announced that Plains All American Pipeline and several of its operating subsidiaries have agreed to spend approximately $41 million to upgrade 10,420 miles of crude oil pipeline operated in the United States. The settlement resolves Plains’ Clean Water Act violations for 10 crude oil spills [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. The FEIS marks a second permitting milestone reached by BrightSource’s Ivanpah project this week. On Wednesday, the company announced that a [...]
It’s no secret that India’s new ‘solar mission’ is the most ambitious solar energy development plan in the world. By 2022 the country aims to be generating 20 GW of energy from sunlight – this will make India the producer of almost three-quarters of the world’s total solar energy output. Building on the success of [...]
Secretary Steven Chu announced this week that the Department of Energy is extending the application deadline for the July 2009 energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies solicitation.The new Part 1 application deadline is October 5, 2010. This gives companies an additional six weeks to apply for a loan guarantee under Section [...]
Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil. Unlike photovoltaic technology currently used in solar panels – which becomes [...]
For CSP development the most suitable land with environmental resources are under the control of the US Bureau of Land Management. Add this to the aggressive RPS state targets across the Southwest USA and it makes it an ideal location for CSP developments.Despite this natural fit, actually securing BLM land is not easy, and it [...]
Gov. Jack A. Markell, D-Del., has signed into law four renewable energy bills that constitute the Clean Energy Jobs package, which is designed to expand employment in renewable energy and put protections in place for ratepayers. The bills will facilitate the potential installation of approximately 250 MW of new solar photovoltaic systems by 2025, according [...]
Cool Energy, Inc., a developer of clean energy heat and power generating systems, today announced that Xcel Energy will be providing research and analytical support for the first planned pilot field installation of the SolarFlow(R) System in a commercial building located in Boulder, Colorado. The SolarFlow System is a combined heat and power (CHP) generation [...]
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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