KB Home to Include Solar Power Systems as Standard Feature

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KB Home , one of the nation’s premier homebuilders, today announced that it will include solar power systems as a standard feature of its Built to Order™ homes in select communities in Central Florida. The systems can help KB homeowners reduce their monthly energy bills by as much as 50% when compared to a typical [...]

Cape Canaveral creates Clean Energy Jobs in Solar Technology with Florida Power & Light

Florida Power & Light Company changed the Space Coast skyline this morning by demolishing the most visible structures at its 42-acre, 45-year-old Cape Canaveral Power Plant, as it prepares to build the Cape Canaveral Next Generation Clean Energy Center, which will open in 2013. FPL’s Next Generation Clean Energy Center will use about 33 percent [...]

New Solar Thermal Concentrator called the Solar Tracer Generates Clean Electicity

LadyBug Resource Group has announced that its subsidiary, New Solar Electricity Corporation, is developing a novel solar concentrator called “Solar Tracer,” which will use concentrating solar power technology to capture energy from the sun and transfer it in the form of heat to run steam turbine generators. The company believes that its Solar Tracer will [...]

Spain becomes New World leader in Solar Thermal Power

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Renewable SAMCA’s La Florida solar thermal plant Spain has overtaken the US as the world leader in solar thermal power generation. With the opening of the new 50 MW La Florida plant in Alvarado, Badajoz in the west of the country, Spain’s total installed solar thermal power capacity is 432 MW, 10 MW ahead of [...]

New Clean Energy Jobs and Less Smog Days in North Carolina Thanks to Solar Power

North Carolina could see fewer smog-alert days, as many as 28,000 new jobs, and a 10 million ton reduction in greenhouse gas pollution by achieving an ambitious but attainable goal for solar power. Relying on solar energy Solar power curbs pollution while safeguarding public health and driving our economy into the future. In fact, a [...]

Home Solar Energy Systems meet up with Internet Enabled Remote Access Technology

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Alternative Energy Partners, Inc has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire energy management company Shovon, LLC .Alternative Energy Partners is focused on sourcing, marketing and distributing renewable alternative energy solutions, including on-site solar thermal energy production. Shovon has developed Web Enabled Internet ready Remote Access Relay Modules and a home energy management [...]

World’s First Hybrid Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Facility Nearing Completion

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At a time when many U.S. power companies are trying to design carbon capture systems for their existing coal fired generating plants Florida’s largest utility company is spending  money to revitalize a natural gas generator by combining it with Concentrated Solar Thermal technology. In a move that validates the companies stated commitment to reduce their [...]

Florida Solar Energy Center Invites Students to Tackle the Global Energy Challenge

Florida students have creative ideas for solving some of the world’s greatest energy challenges, and their solutions were demonstrated recently at the eighth-annual EnergyWhiz Olympics. More than 500 students throughout Florida converged May 1 at the University of Central Florida’s Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) in Cocoa to compete in the day-long competition that showcased [...]

Cyclone Power Technologies & Renovalia Team up on Solar Thermal Generation

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Cyclone Power Technologies has signed a license agreement with , S.A., based in Madrid, Spain. The signing of this license with one of the world’s leading companies in the field of alternative and solar power marks a major milestone for Cyclone and its award-winning technology. Under the agreement, Cyclone will design with Renovalia a compact, [...]

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