Alternative Energy Partners , provider of comprehensive alternative energy solutions, is pleased to announce that Cliff Bream will be joining its Board of Directors. Bream is an accomplished executive and investor with over 25 years’ experience leading industry giants in a variety of sectors. After beginning his career at Proctor & Gamble, he moved on [...]
NJR Clean Energy Ventures (NJRCEV), a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today announced an agreement with Adler Development of Edison, NJ to lease space atop four, fully occupied buildings in central New Jersey for rooftop solar systems. The $17 million project, developed with United Solar’s technical expertise, will be capable of generating 3.9 megawatts of [...]
Solar Thermal Power Market Forecast to 2020 – Utilities to Drive Future Developments in the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Market report provides in-depth analysis of the global solar thermal market and provides forecast estimates up to 2020. The research analyzes the key trends, major issues and growth opportunities in the global solar thermal market. The [...]
Hybrid Energy Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HYBE) announced today it has revised upwards the revenue projections and the market value of its core asset holdings based on Presidents Obama’s call last Friday for Congress to expand a clean energy tax. Obama told an audience at the University of Nevada that a $5 billion increase in clean [...]
A new solar farm will soon enable Tennessee’s Knox County officials to harvest sunshine to meet the hot water demands at the county’s 1,036-bed detention facility. Officials anticipate that the new solar thermal system, one of the nation’s largest for domestic hot water according to FLS Energy – the solar company with which Trane worked [...]
This year, Oncor has nearly doubled incentives for residential systems and expanded customer eligibility to include businesses, organizations and public facilities for its 2010 Solar Water Heating Program. “Oncor’s had an overwhelming success with its solar programs,” said Michael Stockard, Director of Oncor Energy Efficiency Programs. “Due to the huge amount of interest from our [...]
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved Southern California Edison’s (SCE) 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with CA Solar 10 LLC, which is owned by Solar Millennium LLC. The project will consist of two 242 MW facilities that will use solar thermal trough technology to generate an estimated 1,100 GWh of energy annually. CA [...]
Lt. Governor Becky Skillman has announced the opening of the Indiana Solar Thermal (IST) grant program that will make $150,000 available to help offset the cost of installing large Solar Thermal water systems. The program is designed to introduce alternative and renewable energy technologies to specific sectors of hot water users. Hoosier businesses, not-for-profit organizations, [...]
Rep. Jay Insee, D-Wash., has introduced the Americans Making Power Act (AMP Act), which would establish a national standard for net metering. The legislation would allow Americans to feed back into the grid excess renewable power they generate through homes and small businesses. This legislation would also encourage a more diffuse means of energy production, [...]
Bayer MaterialScience AG, ALANOD Aluminium- Veredlung GmbH & Co. KG, its subsidiary Alanod-Solar and the DTNW (North-West German Textile Research Center) worked together in a consortium for several years to develop a special protective coating for aluminum mirrors used in solar thermal applications. Bayer MaterialScience has now sold its relevant patents and know-how to ALANOD, [...]
Xcel Energy is now operating a first-of-its-kind demonstration of a hybrid solar-coal approach, using solar thermal parabolic-trough technology integrated with a coal-fired power plant. The project, located at Xcel Energy’s Cameo Generating Station near Grand Junction, Colo., is designed to increase the plant’s efficiency, decrease the use of coal, test the commercial viability of concentrating [...]
10,000 American Flags Planted in Front of Washington Monument Washington, D.C. – Today, veterans, union leaders and environmentalists gathered in the shadow of the Washington Monument to call on President Obama to end America’s dependence on oil. Starting as an online campaign planting 50,000 virtual flags, volunteers began last night planting 10,000 actual American flags [...]
Solar EOS in partnership with SNRY Solar is offering a variety of technical and business training courses for those interested in building their solar energy business. The goal is to create a level of understanding of the core concepts necessary to work with all solar systems, including solar thermal domestic hot water and photovoltaic. To [...]
SkyFuel First in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Industry to Offer Insurance-Backed Warranty
Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
Abengoa and JGC’s Thermal Solar Power Plant, Solacor 1, Comes Online
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
RSS
FeedBurner Newslette
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
