Solar Thermal Energy Systems & PV Power Generation – Rooftop Installations at the University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is installing its first solar energy systems to provide the campus with electricity and hot water. This is the first wave of solar power installations that will soon be commonplace on the campus. A photovoltaic array has been installed on a popular walkway adjacent to the campus tennis courts. The [...]

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Solar Hot Water Heating and Rock n Roll come together in Athens Georgia

Ed Roland of the American rock band Collective Soul recently had a Power Partners Solar™ water heating system installed in his home. The system was installed by Power Partners Solar™ dealer Energy Conservation Solutions (ECS). The environmentally conscious singer is very pleased with his new solar water heating system. “Doing what’s right for the environment [...]

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Energy and Defence – Bedfellows for Clean Energy?

At a White House Forum on Energy Security this week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense to accelerate clean energy innovation and enhance national energy security. America’s military pays a high price in terms of added [...]

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Advances in Solar Thermal and Solar PV Announced

Hybrid Energy Holdings, Inc. recently reported independent advances in solar cell research that have virtually doubled the conversion ratio of sunlight to energy, thereby significantly reducing the effective cost of its solar energy solutions and the cut payback time frames in half. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Minnesota [...]

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Rooftop Solar Energy Systems to Create Green jobs in New Jersey

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 [...]

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Senator Harry Reid and Congressman Dean Heller introduce a Clean Energy Jobs bill for Nevada

Nevada Senator Harry Reid and Nevada Congressman Dean Heller today introduced companion bills in the Senate and House of Representatives that would create a new revenue source for Nevada’s county and state governments and diversify local economies by creating new clean energy jobs. Senator Reid also introduced a bill that would ensure expanded development of [...]

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Obama’s Commitment to Clean Energy to Create Jobs in Solar Thermal Energy and Solar PV

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 [...]

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Tennessee Jail House Switches to Solar Thermal Energy to save Money on Natural Gas

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 [...]

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HelioTrough wins Concentrated Solar Power Innovation Catagory

At the end of June the participants of the 4th Concentrated Solar Power Conference in San Francisco voted for HelioTrough, the Solar Millennium Group’s newest collector generation, for the award in the “CPS Innovation” category. The HelioTrough collector, which was developed by Flagsol GmbH, the joint venture between Solar Millennium AG and Ferrostaal AG, together [...]

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Hybrid Energy plans for Solar Thermal Energy & PV Consumer Applications

Hybrid Energy Holdings, Inc. recently reported the signing of a formal Development and Distribution Agreement wherein KS IP Holdings, LLC (KS-IPH) acquired exclusive development and distribution rights for specific consumer applications of the Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Thermal technology Intellectual Properties (IP) previously acquired by HYBE. The Company believes PV and Solar Thermal Market, particularly [...]

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One Clean Energy Company Positions itself for the high growth Solar Thermal Power market

Hybrid Energy Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HYBE) reports today it commenced patent protection process on the first nine Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Thermal technology Intellectual Properties (IP) recently acquired as part of the Technology Transfer Agreement and Joint Development Agreement with KS IP Holdings, LLC, a private company specializing in clean energy technologies. The Company believes [...]

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Solar Thermal Power Plant Components cross Europe for Andasol 3 Project

The condenser for the power plant block of the Andasol 3 Solar Thermal power project arrived at the building site near La Calahorra on Monday. Also the turbine for the Andasol 3 power plant has already reached the Mediterranean coast in the south of Spain. At the same time, the generator that was built in [...]

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Phoenix Landfill Concentrated Solar Thermal Project to come Online late 2012

The City of Phoenix, Arizona is working a solar thermal project that when completed will be the city’s largest ever solar project. The solar thermal technology will be purchased from Tessera Solar. The utility-scale solar plant is being constructed at the city’s only active landfill, at SR 85 in Buckeye, Ariz. It will result in nearly $1 billion [...]

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