WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the availability of a report by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the possible impacts of new emission standards for the control of regional haze. DOI commissioned the study and will provide it to the [...]
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 [...]
Amonix Inc., the leading designer and manufacturer of utility-scale concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems and lead investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), announced their interim management plan in succession with the tragic passing of Amonix CEO, Brian Robertson. Robertson was a solar pioneer with significant expertise in the solar industry. He joined Amonix [...]
Ciralight Global Inc. today announced that it received approval from FINRA granting the company the trading symbol of “CGHA” and approval to have common stock quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board. In the next few days, their initial market maker, Wilson-Davis & Co., Inc. will begin entering bid and asked quotations for the common stock [...]
Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, officially launched the Clean Technology Accelerator program in California. Developed and managed by the Canadian Consulate General in San Francisco, the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) program aims to provide qualified Canadian technology companies with access to unique resources and contacts to help them grow on a global scale. [...]
Sunvalley Solar, Inc., a leading provider of solar power technology and solar integration systems, announced that it has signed a commercial solar installation contract with Aqua Farming Tech, Inc. in the city of Thermal, California.
The University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) has announced that the construction of a 2.8MW fuel cell with enough capacity to power 2,800 homes has begun on its campus as part of a renewable-energy project with the City of San Diego and BioFuels Energy to turn waste methane gas from the Point Loma [...]
SunReports Inc., a provider of performance-monitoring solutions for residential and small commercial PV and solar thermal installations, says it has met the California Solar Initiative (CSI) Thermal Program’s requirements for monitoring systems.
Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of silicon ingots, wafers and photovoltaic cells and modules, said it is opening a new office in Cheshire, Connecticut, the company’s second location in North America. Solarfun also maintains a facility in Costa Mesa, California.
The 2010 Green Governor of the Year Award was presented to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, by Lex Heslin, President and CEO of Beautiful Earth Group. The award was established by Beautiful Earth Group, a leading sustainable energy, products and services company, to annually honor a Governor who shows the greatest leadership, courage, understanding and [...]
NextEra To Replace Thousands Of Altamont Pass, California Wind Turbines California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced an agreement to upgrade the quarter-century-old wind turbines in Altamont Pass to make them more efficient and less deadly to migratory birds. The turbines were constructed in the Altamont Pass Wind Resources Area in Alameda and Contra [...]
Dec 8 2010 | Posted in
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Bechtel joined BrightSource Energy in a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a groundbreaking project that will usher in a new era of advanced solar power in the United States.The ceremony was held in California’s Mojave Desert next to the Ivanpah site. Ian Copeland, president of Bechtel’s [...]
Cal Poly Pomona University is celebrating becoming carbon neutral at its 16-acre John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies with an event called “Plug into the Sun: Green Light to Carbon Neutral.” The milestone was made possible by the installation of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy systems from California-based Amonix, Inc., the recognized leader in [...]
Oct 28 2010 | Posted in
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