Pratt & Whitney’s Waste Heat-to-Power Organic Rankine Cycle Solutions Now Eligible for the California Self-Generation Incentive Program State incentive program now includes ORC technology for Waste Heat-to-Power and CHP applications Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS), a world leader in Organic Rankine Cycle solutions for waste heat, biomass, geothermal and solar thermal power applications, announced [...]
NRG Energy, Inc. and First Solar, Inc. this week announced an agreement for First Solar to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for NRG’s 66 megawatt (AC) Alpine solar project in Lancaster, California. First Solar will also provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services. Electricity from the Alpine project will be sold under a 20-year power [...]
Saturday’s event launches Metropolitan 10th annual Solar Cup program, which concludes with three days of racing May 18-20, 2012 at Lake Skinner near Temecula in southwest Riverside County. Teams from 42 high schools (see accompanying list) in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties are participating in this year’s event. Solar [...]
In response to the growing demand from the United States and Latin America for Innotech Solar panels, Innotech Solar (ITS) has established Innotech Solar U.S.A., a sales entity in Vista, California. “With the decreasing costs of solar systems, we are increasing our focus on markets with a lot of sunshine, soaring electricity prices and high [...]
Bechtel has received Full Notice to Proceed for construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) project, one of the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) plants being built in the world. Bechtel is providing engineering, procurement, and construction services for the 250 megawatt (MW) facility located in San Luis Obispo County, north of Los Angeles. “Upon [...]
What: A stakeholder meeting on the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. The DRECP, a major component of California’s renewable energy planning efforts, will help provide effective protection and conservation of desert ecosystems while allowing for the appropriate development of renewable energy projects. Discussion of the draft [...]
In a major step in the development of the Imperial Solar Energy Center South, Tenaska Solar Ventures, the solar energy affiliate of Tenaska, has selected First Solar to be the technology provider and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project. First Solar will provide EPC services, using advanced thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules [...]
Washington D.C. — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the Energy Department finalized a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to Mojave Solar LLC for the development of the Mojave Solar Project (MSP). When complete, the 250MW solar generation project located in San Bernardino County, California will increase the nation’s currently installed concentrating solar power (CSP) [...]
enXco Signs Power Purchase Agreement for 31 Megawatt Solar Photovoltaic Project With Marin Clean Energy enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, has announced a Power Purchase Agreement with Marin Clean Energy for 31 megawatts of solar photovoltaic energy. The project will be located on six potential sites in Kern, Kings and/or Tulare Counties including a [...]
Magnolia Solar Corporation has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., has demonstrated high-voltage InGaAs quantum well waveguide solar cells, a unique structure capable of improving the performance of photovoltaic modules. Dr. Roger E. Welser, Magnolia’s Chief Technical Officer, summarized the latest technical results at the Solar Energy and Technology Conference in San [...]
Washington D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the Department has finalized a $197 million loan guarantee to SoloPower, Inc. The loan guarantee will support the construction and operation of state-of-the-art thin-film solar module manufacturing facilities at two sites in Portland, Oregon and an existing site in San Jose, California. When completed and at [...]
BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY FILES APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATION FOR Next-generation power tower plant design sets the bar in land-efficiency for utility-scale solar technologies Project to create thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in state and local tax revenue BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the [...]
Powered by the sun and Stanford ingenuity On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Stanford Solar Car Project officially unveiled Xenith, a solar-powered vehicle two years in the making that boasts several industry-leading technological innovations. The team will be competing in the prestigious World Solar Challenge this fall, putting Xenith to the test in a 2,000-mile race [...]
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