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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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 [...]
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An affordable housing development in Brecon has been dubbed super-green due to its eco-friendly use of air source heat pumps and solar thermal energy technology. The development meets Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Development. Various options were weighed up including exhaust air heat pumps, considered too big for the compact apartments, and individual [...]
First Published Friday, 3 September 2010 10:18 pm – © 2010 Dow Jones SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Duke Energy Corp.’s (DUK) Brazilian unit said Friday it is seeking authorization to change its company statute in order to expand beyond hydroelectric power generation. The company will ask Aneel, Brazil’s electricity regulator, to approve the change in [...]
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Kalahari Greentech, Inc. released a statement this week detailing a report prepared by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Engineering Experiment Station, which found Kalahari Greentech’s Solar Collector to be up to 74% efficient; that’s four times the efficiency of commercial photovoltaic cells. The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s top research universities, [...]
SEMA, the Solar Engineering & Manufacturing Association, will hold a meeting on September 22, 2010 at 5 p.m. in Milpitas, CA featuring internationally recognized consultant Paula Mints, who will discuss the global photovoltaic technology outlook. The presentation will cover PV supply and demand, price and technology, and forecasts for the next five years. It also [...]
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AwardsWashington, D.C., U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announced the awarding of $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to the FutureGen Alliance, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox, and Air Liquide Process & Costruction, Inc. to build FutureGen 2.0, a clean coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO2) storage network. The [...]
3TIER, a provider of renewable energy information services, has introduced a suite of solar prospecting and assessment products for India. The products are based on 3TIER’s proprietary solar data set. The products enable project developers to quantify the long-term availability and variability of solar resources with or without observational data, 3TIER says. 3TIER’s solar data [...]
Solar Thermal Magazine is a cosponsor of the upcoming CSP today Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit in New Delhi and we will be reporting updates to this first of a kind event, on a regular basis. Here is an excerpt from a recent interview conducted by CSP today. Ahead of the First Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit India, [...]
In the first program of its kind in Arizona, 32 residential solar installers became the first to achieve the designation of Qualified Solar Installer (QSI) from Arizona Public Service Co. These installers passed a challenging series of technical, professional and administrative courses; hold the appropriate licenses with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors; and have achieved [...]
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Cool Energy, Inc., a developer of clean energy heat and power generating systems, today announced that Xcel Energy will be providing research and analytical support for the first planned pilot field installation of the SolarFlow(R) System in a commercial building located in Boulder, Colorado. The SolarFlow System is a combined heat and power (CHP) generation [...]
Developing CSP projects in the US is a very challenging business, and the stages involved from getting it from the drawing board to construction phase, on average take up to 4 years. The secret to success is based upon essential pillars being in place. These pillars are 1) CSP site secured 2)Connected to transmission line [...]
The Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its Volther hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The hybrid system allows extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water while optimising efficiency, the company says. Historically, the main drawback of many conventional photovoltaic (PV) systems has been the high initial [...]
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