Washington, D.C. – As part of the President’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, the Energy Department and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program have announced up to $1.3 million for training programs to provide commercial building professionals with critical skills needed to optimize [...]
WASHINGTON–An economic analysis prepared by The Brattle Group and released today finds that a 100% tariff on imported solar PV cells and modules from China would result in as many as 50,000 net lost jobs in the U.S. over the next three years. Furthermore, retaliatory tariffs placed on U.S. exports of polysilicon to China would [...]
AUSTIN, Texas and Pennsylvania.– Solar Community, a national provider of solar power solutions, is expanding to Pennsylvania and 6 other East Coast states. Sales teams were carefully developed for each state. The addition of the Pennsylvania solar team marks an important milestone in an aggressive nationwide expansion plan creating over 250 green jobs in 8 [...]
MELBOURNE, Florida. National Solar Power today announced the company has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County, Florida. Under the agreement, National Solar Power will build an up to 100MW solar energy project on property in Liberty County—adjacent to the company’s Gadsden County, Florida solar farm project. The project, representing a $350 [...]
SAN JOSE & FREMONT, California. eIQ Energy and Boots on the Roof today announced a partnership to introduce eIQ Energy’s vBoost module technology to Boots on the Roof’s solar photovoltaic (PV) training programs. To start that process, eIQ Energy has contributed a dozen vBoost converter modules to the Boots on the Roof solar training program. [...]
Certified PV installers to earn recertification credit through Zep Systems Installation and Design training Zep Solar Inc. (“Zep Solar”), developer of the first comprehensive platform for PV system installation, this week announced it has registered three new PV continuing education courses with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners’ (NABCEP). NABCEP certified PV installers [...]
SunPower Corp. today announced that the company has broken ground on a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake) in California. The plant is expected to create 140 jobs during construction, and generate the equivalent of more than 30 percent of NAWS China Lake’s annual [...]
In a unique, first-of-its kind generation-to-manufacturing proposal, CPS Energy is entering into negotiations for a power purchase agreement from one of the nation’s largest solar projects. The project will mean new corporate headquarters and U.S. manufacturing operations for global companies in San Antonio. The offer from OCI Solar Power is expected to result in 400 [...]
SPI Solar, a leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) solar developer and engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) services provider, announced today that it has been awarded an EPC contract by Seashore Solar Development, LLC (“Seashore Solar”), a New Jersey-based solar development company. As EPC contractor, SPI will design, engineer and construct an 11.3 megawatt fixed ground [...]
WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the approval of two renewable energy projects that further advance President Obama’s initiative for a rapid and responsible move to utility-scale production of renewable energy. The projects – a solar plant in California and a wind farm in Oregon – will be built on [...]
Department of Energy Releases its 2011 Critical Materials Strategy. Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week released the 2011 Critical Materials Strategy. The report examines the role that rare earth metals and other key materials play in clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, electric vehicles, solar cells and energy-efficient lighting. [...]
Matinee Energy Starts Construction of the Solar Power Plants in Benson, Arizona BENSON, Arizona. Ground breaking by Matinee Energy, Inc. at Benson, AZ site took place today for the construction of solar power plants. This site is designed to convert abundant sun-intensity into 120MW of electricity. Powerful global construction conglomerates support Matinee Energy efforts to [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) project at two U.S. Department of State facilities in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The project, awarded by the State Department to Honeywell, will implement energy efficiency and water conservation measures at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington, D.C., which [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
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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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