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 [...]
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 [...]
NRG Energy and BrightSource Energy Partner on Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System: 392-Megawatt Facility in California Will Be World’s Largest Solar Thermal Facility When Completed NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, NRG Solar, executed a letter of intent to partner with BrightSource Energy to construct, finance, own and operate the largest solar thermal [...]
SRS Energy, a leading developer of designer solar products, was recently featured on DIY Network’s This New House. The segment highlights their innovative Sole Power Tile™, the first curved solar roof tile designed to integrate seamlessly with profiled clay roof products. “SRS Energy has received tremendous response from homeowners around the globe that have chosen [...]
Representatives from the offices of Assemblywoman Anna M. Caballero (California’s 28th district) and Congressman Sam Farr (California’s 17th district) honored the City of Hollister and solar project developer ClearSpot Energy for helping create jobs based on green energy at the official groundbreaking ceremony on October 6, 2010. The groundbreaking ceremony celebrated the start of 10 [...]
Eskom generates approximately 95% of the electricity used in South Africa and approximately 45% of the electricity used in Africa. In an effort to meet the rising demand for electricity, Eskom has embarked on a massive build programme of R385 billion over the five years to 2013. In order to explore new generation options, find [...]
RUBENIUS, an energy services company based in the United Arab Emirates, says it intends to build an energy-storage facility based on sodium-sulfur battery technology on a 345-acre site the company recently purchased in Baja California, Mexico. The cost of the facility is estimated to exceed $4 billion. The company says it will offer the energy [...]
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) approved on October 5 the first large-scale solar energy plants ever to be built on U.S. public lands. The approval of two developments in California grants the U.S.-based companies behind the projects access to almost 6,800 acres of public lands for 30 years to build and operate [...]
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
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