Two Solar Companies Poised for Growth as EU Debt Negotiations Turn Positive

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NEW YORK, NY. Solar stocks have been crushed in recent months as worries regarding the Eurozone’s debt raised concerns on solar’s growth prospects. Solar stocks are finally showing signs of recovery this week as EU debt negotiations are showing some progress towards an agreement. Based on a study looking at five major solar markets — [...]

World Solar Car Challenge

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The World Solar Car Challenge is all about energy management.  In this year’s event in Australia, the teams departed Darwin aiming to be the first to arrive in Adelaide, some 3000km to the south.  Based on the original notion that a 1000W car would complete the journey in 50 hours, solar cars are allowed a nominal [...]

Japan’s First National Project for Overseas Solar Thermal Power Generation

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Agreement to conduct a joint solar thermal power project with Tunisia Mr. Tadahiro Matsushita, Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Mr. Mohamed Nouri Jouini, Tunisian Minister of Development and International Cooperation, agreed during their meeting that both countries would conduct a joint project for solar thermal power generation in Tunisia. This project [...]

Annual Award Winners for Sustainable Development for Cities utilizing Clean Energy

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The U.S. Department of Energy recently honored the winners of the 2010 Lou Wozar Annual Awards at the Sister Cities International annual conference in Albuquerque, N.M. These awards recognize some of the most effective international city-to-city partnerships that advance the use of clean energy and drive innovations in sustainability. On July 31, 2010, DOE’s Office [...]

India on it’s way to 20,000 Mwatts of Solar Energy Generation by 2022?

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Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Shri SushilKumar Shinde , Union Minister for Power today jointly unveiled the guidelines for selection of new solar power projects under the 1000 MW solar power scheme in the first phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This would put India in league [...]

Utility Executives Head to Japan to Learn about Solar Power Integration

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The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), an educational and research non-profit focused on helping utilities integrate solar into their energy portfolios, will lead 18 utility executives and managers to Japan on its third annual Solar Fact Finding Mission from July 25 to 30. While abroad, the delegation will meet with Japanese utilities, government officials, and [...]

China Announces Plans for New-Energy Demonstration City

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China’s central government has approved proposals to establish a national-level new-energy demonstration city in Turpan in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and the first low-carbon demonstration township in the Jujiapu Financial District of Tianjin, according to Zhang Baoguo, head of the National Energy Administration (NEA). Zhang said that the central government has approved the national-level new-energy [...]

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 [...]

Mitsubishi Electric to Invest 7 Billion JPY in Smart Grid Technology for Renewable Energy

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will invest a total of 7 billion yen by March 2012 in a project to build facilities within the company’s production sites in Japan for experiments designed to establish advanced smart grid technologies. The project will contribute to the company’s efforts to support the adoption of sustainable power [...]

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