OPENING REMARKS OF NRC CHAIRMAN GREGORY B. JACZKO AT THE COMMISSION MEETING TO DISCUSS INSPECTIONS, TESTS, ANALYSES AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA Good morning. The Commission meets today to discuss the inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria for potential new reactor construction, a program otherwise known as ITAAC. Like all of our activities related to construction oversight, [...]
SHEC Energy Corporation and Cleanergy have signed an MOU for the joint development of a high-efficiency solar Stirling engine. SHEC Energy’s high-efficiency solar receiver technology will be coupled with Cleanergy’s proven Stirling Engine technology to develop the world’s most advanced Solar Stirling Engine offering. Engineers from both SHEC Energy and Cleanergy gave design approval to [...]
San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) has signed a 25-year power-purchase agreement (PPA) with a subsidiary of CSolar Development, LLC (CSolar Development), a renewable energy company managed by Tenaska Solar Ventures, to procure up to 130MW of renewable power. The solar photovoltaic energy will come from a proposed facility in Imperial County. The ground-mounted [...]
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This is the last of two parks contracted with the Government of Cape Verde. The park occupies an area of 13 hectares PV Modules were produced by Martifer Solar at its plant in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal Martifer Solar, owned by Martifer SGPS, SA, and the Ministry of Economy, Growth and Competitiveness of Cape Verde [...]
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Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative EcoBuild America The Department of Commerce’s Sustainable Manufacturing team will be at Ecobuild this year! Please come by our booth (#738) between December 6-10 at the Washington D.C. Convention Center for information on SMI tools, resources and upcoming events. SMI email list members can register for free VIP Exhibit and Keynote admission [...]
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AFP – South Africa’s plan to build what could become the world’s biggest solar project has drawn keen interest from investors even though it is still in its infancy, an official said Friday. More than 400 investors and solar industry insiders from around the world converged on the town of Upington in South Africa’s arid [...]
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Will India be a bigger concentrated solar thermal power than China? Last year there was very little talk of India becoming one of the biggest markets for CSP. Today the question on everybody’s lips is: Will India be a bigger CSP power than China? As the founder of CSP Today and organizer of the 1st [...]
SolFocus and Vision Electro Mechanical Company to Build the Largest Solar Power Plant of its Kind in Saudi Arabia Project is milestone for the commercialization of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology in the Middle East Bahra, Saudi Arabia and Mountain View, Calif., October 25, 2010 – SolFocus, the leading developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, [...]
Solar Trust of America, LLC today announced that its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium, LLC, has secured a Record of Decision (ROD) from the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approving the Blythe Solar Power Plant’s Right of Way Grant. The ROD is the final regulatory milestone in the federal permitting process and [...]
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Con Edison Development, a unit of Consolidated Edison, Inc., and Panda Power Funds today broke ground on a 20-MW solar electric generating station in Pilesgrove, N.J. The solar farm will have the capacity to power more than 5,100 homes with renewable energy. The shovel-ready project will create over 100 construction jobs with mobilization expected to [...]
Suntrough Energy is a California-based solar thermal energy technology company with a strong emphasis on facilitating project development and execution. The company sources and provides equipment, develops technology, and leverages their experience to offer turnkey solutions to developers, utilities, water districts, power plant owners, and industrial customers looking to diversify and complement their existing generation [...]
The 234-year-old Philadelphia Navy Yard—which has morphed from defunct naval shipyard to bustling business district—is going through yet another metamorphosis: into an energy-efficient campus. State and federal officials decided that the 200 office buildings—a mix of historic and new structures occupied by organizations from the Department of Defense to Urban Outfitters—and the fact that is [...]
Solar Trust of America says its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received unanimous approval from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate its 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Thermal Power Project in Riverside County. This would be the largest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility in the world, the company says. The project [...]
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