Sustainable Energy Financing for Renewable Power and Energy Efficiency Projects

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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, [...]

Researchers find a Stable Way to Store and Release Solar Thermal Heat on Demand

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Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Researchers at MIT have revealed exactly how a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, which was discovered in 1996, works to store and release heat on demand. This understanding, reported in a paper published on Oct. 20 in the journal Angewandte [...]

Yingli Green Energy Invests in 700 Mwatt of Solar PV Manufacturing Capacity

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand “Yingli Solar,” this week  announced its new 700 MW capacity expansion projects to be located at Baoding headquarters and in Hainan province. Yingli Green Energy plans to [...]

California Winery’s Invest in Solar Thermal and PV, Cogeneration Systems Company

Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems and renewable energy service solutions, has been awarded a $1.5 million research grant from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration Program. The funding will support the accelerated development and commercial deployment of Cogenra’s proprietary solar cogeneration technology and will finance the company’s demonstration [...]

Saving Money on Your Home Energy Bill – Major Effort Announced in Weatherization

At an event with homeowners and workers who benefited from the program, today in Manchester, New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden announced a major Recovery Act milestone—the weatherizing of 200,000 homes under the Recovery Act. As a result of the Administration’s unprecedented commitment to energy efficiency, more than 200,000 low-income families have been able to [...]

Solar Industry Calls on Senate to Include Bipartisan Solar Provisions in Energy Bill

WASHINGTON, DC – Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, released the following statement recently calling on the U.S. Senate to include solar provisions that enjoy bipartisan support in the pending energy bill: “We applaud the Senate for bringing legislation to the floor to address the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico. [...]

Advances in Solar Thermal and Solar PV Announced

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Hybrid Energy Holdings, Inc. recently reported independent advances in solar cell research that have virtually doubled the conversion ratio of sunlight to energy, thereby significantly reducing the effective cost of its solar energy solutions and the cut payback time frames in half. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Minnesota [...]

Oregon Issues 11 Awards for Renewable Energy, Thermal Systems & Fuel Projects

The Oregon Department of Energy has issued 11 awards in a competitive process to study the feasibility of specific and new renewable energy, heat, and fuel projects in Oregon. Eleven projects in nine counties received funding ranging from $20,000 to $50,000, at a total commitment level of $351,000. The purpose of the CREFF program is [...]

California Sues Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over Clean Energy Finance Action

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has filed a lawsuit against government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for their actions taken against property-assessed clean energy finance (PACE) programs in the U.S. “As the nation struggles through the worst recession in modern times, California is taking action in federal court to stop the regulatory [...]

U.S. Concentrated Solar Power Market described as ” Set to Explode”

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A new report from Market research takes a hard look at the potential for solar energy in the U.S. After its best year ever in 2008, the world solar market struggled to survive a tumultuous 2009. What looked like a yawning drop for the solar photovoltaic (PV) market in the first half of the year [...]

G20 needs to Support Solar Thermal Energy and Abandon Big Coal and Oil Handouts

Toronto G20 solar thermal magazine

As BP’s oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, G20 heads of state, due to meet in Toronto this weekend, are planning to dilute last year’s commitment to phase out subsidies to Big Oil and Big Coal, according a copy of the draft statement seen by the environmental groups, Greenpeace and Oil Change [...]

Australian Solar Thermal Companies Struggle for Government Support

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A recent article from”Beyond Zero Emissions”  suggests that all is not well with the Solar Thermal Industry in the “land down under” . It appears that the federal government is eager to show new support for the industry after cristism for allowing a solar thermal Australian startup company ( Ausra) to be purchased by a global energy company. The government [...]

South Carolina’s Solar Academy will train a Solar Thermal and PV Work Force

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Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc. (SNRY 0.14, +0.02, +21.62%) , with businesses in solar project development, distribution and workforce training, received $704,110 in grant funding to be used for a solar rooftop array on its showcase facility in South Carolina. “Our expansion in the state of South Carolina continues with the addition of a $1.5 million [...]

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