Sol Systems Launches Utility-Backed SREC Solar Finance Program Sol Systems, a solar renewable energy credit (SREC) aggregator, has introduced a new three-year, fixed-rate SREC financing option for Massachusetts residents and businesses. In Massachusetts, system owners can cover approximately 25% of system costs through an SREC agreement with Sol Systems. Sol Systems says it gives homeowners [...]
A California Energy Commission siting committee is recommending approval of the planned Rice Solar Thermal Energy Project in Riverside County. In its presiding member’s proposed decision (PMPD) released today, the committee said the proposed 150-megawatt plant, as mitigated, will have no significant impacts on the environment and complies with all applicable laws, ordinances, regulations, and [...]
Bergamo Acquisition Corp. has announced that Bergamo Harbinsons Energy, Ltd, a Joint Venture Company with Bergamo Acquisition Corp. USA, has entered into a joint development agreement with Andri Urja Pvt, Ltd, Delhi. The joint agreement is for the development of an advanced 5 MW Solar Hybrid Thermal Power Plant at the net sale price of [...]
Sopogy, Inc., a leader in MicroCSP™ solar power technology development, manufacturing and installation, will supply its proprietary micro-scaled concentrated solar thermal collectors to the Keahole Solar Power (KSP) five-megawatt plant in Kalaeloa located on Oahu’s Leeward Coast. The project, named “Kalaeloa Solar One”, is a partnership between the State of Hawaii’s Department of Hawaiian Home [...]
Austin Energy, an electric utility based in Austin, Texas, says it has $4 million in funds for solar energy incentives for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Incentives are available for residential and commercial solar electric and solar hot water energy systems. This year, residential customers are eligible for solar electric rebates at $2.50/W, [...]
The CSP Today site visit to the concentrated solar power facility at NREL on October 29th in Denver has almost sold out of places. This will immediately follow and only be open to delegates of the CSP Yield Optimization Conference (Denver, October 27-28), and registration will close this week. CSP Today’s recent USA conference attracted [...]
The U.S. Dept of Energy announced this week that it will award $188 million—including $73 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding—to small businesses in 34 states to develop clean energy technologies with potential for commercialization. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR), the selections [...]
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 [...]
For CSP development the most suitable land with environmental resources are under the control of the US Bureau of Land Management. Add this to the aggressive RPS state targets across the Southwest USA and it makes it an ideal location for CSP developments.Despite this natural fit, actually securing BLM land is not easy, and it [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is seeking project proposals from companies to invest up to $11 million in solar energy technology development and commercialization. The Photovoltaic (PV) Technology Incubator program aims to shorten the time line for companies to transition prototype and pre-commercial PV technologies into pilot and full-scale manufacture. This [...]
Hybrid Energy reports today the continuing appreciation in the market value and income potential of its Photovoltaic (PV) and Solar Thermal technology recently acquired as part of the $18M Technology Transfer Agreement and Joint Development Agreement with KS IP Holdings, LLC. In its recent report ‘United States PV Market 2010,’ published July 26th, Solarbuzz forecasts [...]
Microsemi Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high performance analog/mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, and Spelsberg, in conjunction with its partner, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE,announced the development of a disruptive new technology for photovoltaic (PV) solar modules. The technology was demonstrated at InterSolar 2010, July 13-15, 2010, in San [...]
This country spends, in a typical year, $350 billion importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries. While this is no doubt good news for the Saudi royal family, one of the richest in the world, it is bad news for the average American. The vast majority of the American people understand that now [...]
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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