OAKLAND, Calif. – Courtney Dittmar was thrust into a tough Bay Area job market in 2009 when she lost her job of nine years at a university library. After two years of unemployment, a friend connected her with the nonprofit GRID Alternatives, which runs a Solar Intern Program funded by a $120,000 grant from Pacific [...]
Bloom Energy breaks ground on new Manufacturing Center in Delaware, and announces new customers leading the way in energy innovation Sunnyvale, CA – April 30, 2012 — Bloom Energy®, a provider of clean, reliable, affordable power, today broke ground on a new Bloom Energy Manufacturing Center in Newark, Delaware. Located on the 272-acre site formerly [...]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that projects completed by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) in 2011 saved New York taxpayers $9 million and created more than 3,000 jobs across New York State. Last year, NYPA provided $186 million in financing for energy efficiency and clean energy projects at nearly 2,600 public facilities throughout [...]
Everyday Energy (everydayenergy.us) recently hosted an Introduction to Solar Photovoltaic Installation course for residents of Los Robles Apartments, an affordable housing community owned by Community Housing Works. This two-day training is part of Everyday Energy’s ongoing partnerships with their affordable housing clients to create training programs that help those hit hardest by the bad [...]
Bremerton, WA, like many towns in the country, has been hit hard by the economic downturn. RePower (a multi-jurisdictional initiative in Bainbridge, Bremerton and Kitsap County) is a community-based effort helping create local jobs for contractors by offering in-home assessments and energy-efficiency improvements that increase the comfort, health and safety of local homes. Contractors, such [...]
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. Â 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 [...]
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