Solar Hot Water for Homes The SolarBeam can provide solar hot water for in-floor heating and radiant heating by providing free hot water to the boiler. At a location that has a solar radiation of 900 w/m2, 1 SolarBeam can heat 1,000 liters of water from 12 C to 60 C in 4 hours. This [...]
NORESCO Adds Innovative Solar Generation System to Energy Savings Performance Contract With the State of Hawaii NORESCO, a national leader in energy efficiency and energy infrastructure solutions, has increased its energy savings performance contract with the State of Hawaii to include $2.9 million for a photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity generation system at the Kalanimoku Building [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing the final series of actions that will ensure that the largest industrial facilities can get Clean Air Act permits that cover greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions beginning in January 2011. These actions are part of EPA’s common sense approach to GHG permitting outlined in the spring 2010 [...]
(Phoenix, AZ) – Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) has announced the use of a $1 million grant for a project to make large-scale solar electricity generation more cost-effective. Pioneered by internationally recognized and celebrated University of Arizona (UA) researcher Roger Angel, the “energy telescope” project uses principals of optics and large telescope design in an innovative way [...]
The City of San Jose announced today that it will host a free community open house for the San Jose Green Vision Clean Energy Showcase, a new, interactive innovation center housing installations of cutting-edge clean energy technologies available on the market today and in the future. San Jose residents, the Silicon Valley community and all [...]
SunMaxx Solar announced today the company will soon be starting a large solar thermal system installation in the United States at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. Located approximately 60 miles from the state capital of Austin, Fort Hood covers a total of 340-square miles and supports multiple units, a corps headquarters and a [...]
Southern Nevada’s First Non-Solar Renewable Energy Project Completed Ormat Technologies, Inc. and Kern River Gas Transmission Company today dedicated southern Nevada’s first non-solar renewable energy project, the Goodsprings Energy Recovery Station. Located 35 miles south of Las Vegas, the Goodsprings Energy Recovery Station is the first renewable energy project owned by NV Energy. The project [...]
Solar MHD, Inc. is developing a patented new type of generating power-plant, which it describes as “a very promising new technology for electric power generation”. The technology is based on the principal of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which uses magnets to extract electricity from superheated charged plasmas. The technology can produce electricity from any heat source, but [...]
Zions Bancorporation and its subsidiary National Bank of Arizona (NBA) announced today the launch of Zions Energy Link, a division that will specialize in the sustainable energy finance sector. Zions Energy Link will provide simple, streamlined and cost-effective financing solutions for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, [...]
SunPower Corp. this week announced an agreement with Iberdrola Renewables to design and build a 30-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant, the San Luis Valley Solar Ranch, on 216 acres of private, former agricultural land in Colorado’s Alamosa County. Expected to be fully operational by the end of 2011, construction will begin this year and [...]
The University of Houston has received a $1.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to help design the next generation of technologies for the alternative energy industry. In all, the ONR awarded a total of $1.5 million to UH, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of New Mexico to develop new thin-film [...]
CSIRO will begin installing 450 large mirrors, called heliostats, for Australia’s largest solar-thermal tower system at the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales. The heliostats are part of an advanced new solar technology developed by CSIRO and manufactured by Central Coast company, Performance Engineering Group.By developing such technology CSIRO aims to [...]
Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection were on hand today at celebrations marking three different clean energy projects – including the largest rooftop solar array in North America — to deliver the message that renewable energy sources and technologies that are more efficient represent the economic future of Pennsylvania and America. DEP Secretary John [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
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Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
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