American Solar Direct (ASD), a leading residential solar provider in California, will showcase its end-to-end services – including its very affordable leasing options – to consumers attending the Green Festival Los Angeles 2011, being held Oct. 29-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. American Solar Direct’s appearance at this very popular festival comes at a [...]
“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over in all facets of people’s lives from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe including Tuvalu, Peru, England, Uganda,Kenya, Belgium, Denmark , Germany and the [...]
2011 will go down In the CSP history books as an excellent year. Following announcements for 2 loan guarantees in late 2010 to construct Ivanpah (a tower CSP plant by BrightSource Energy) and Solana (a parabolic trough with 7 hours storage by Abengoa), 2011 has come with an unprecedented levels of support by the DoE [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Tyco Electronics (TE) launches the UL 1741-Listed pre-wired SOLARLOK combiner box for faster, error-free residential solar panel installations. The five-string combiner box offers 30-second, error-proof terminations through factory pre-wired TE SOLARLOK connectors, which have polarity keyed housing to help prevent mismating. Additionally, its light-weight, low-profile design, which includes four pre-drilled knock-out selections, [...]
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 [...]
The solar industry has immense potential for a tropical country like India where around 45% of households, mainly rural ones, do not have access to electricity, says our new research report Indian Solar Energy Market Outlook 2012. The industry has witnessed rapid growth over the past few years and is projected to grow further in [...]
Urban Green Energy Brings “New Light” to San Francisco Urban Green Energy, the leading manufacturer of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), today announced the launch of Sanya, a hybrid wind and solar powered LED lighting solution, perfect for lighting streets and parking lots.
Project will be the largest photovoltaic solar field in the world when completed; Enhances NRG’s growing Arizona business NRG Energy, Inc. and First Solar, Inc. has announced that NRG, through its wholly owned subsidiary, NRG Solar, has agreed to acquire the 290-megawatt (MW) Agua Caliente solar project from First Solar. The project is scheduled to [...]
Massachusetts Approves Cape Wind/National Grid Power Purchase Agreement Cape Wind passed another major milestone today with the approval by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) of the 15-year Power Purchase Agreement with National Grid to buy Cape Wind’s energy, capacity and renewable energy credits. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said, “Massachusetts is now in [...]
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 [...]
Foster Wheeler AG is a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier which prides itself on delivering technically advanced, reliable facilities and equipment. The company announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design and supply a solar steam generator system (preheaters, drum-type evaporators, and [...]
Ditlev Engel, President and CEO of Vestas Wind Systems A/S and convener of the working group for creating green jobs, is asking every G20 Head of State for a date – one hour in their calendar over the coming months. Mr Engel and working group colleagues offer to personally present tailor-made recommendations specific to each [...]
Ameresco, Inc. has announced a partnership with the city of Englewood, Colorado, has unveiled a new solar initiatives and energy conservation program. Ameresco and Englewood partnership is designed to reduce costs and generate renewable energy for the municipality. This extensive, two-tiered program includes the installation of a solar energy system and an energy conservation program. [...]
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
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
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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