ROCKVILLE, Md. The Tower Companies announced recenlty that they are the recipient of the National Capital Region chapter of the US Green Building Council’s 2012 Awards of Excellence for Project of the Year for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance for Blair Towns, the first LEED certified multi-family apartments in the country in January 2004. Blair [...]
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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GUELPH and TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 16, 2012. Canadian Solar Inc, one of the world’s largest solar power companies, today announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has expanded its relationship with Penn Energy Renewables Ltd. with an additional 10MW (AC) turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”) contract and operations and maintenance (“OM”) agreement for [...]
Clean Power Finance, the online marketplace for residential solar financing and leading provider of solar sales software, has been awarded two grants from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the SunShot Initiative. The grants, announced today at the DOE’s SunShot Initiative Summit in Denver, Colo., support Clean Power Finance’s efforts to build software [...]
Henderson County to save $81K in energy costs through partnership with Asheville-based SolTherm and grant from NCSEO Henderson County Detention Center, a 543-occupant detention facility, will cut hot water costs by 45% through the installation of a solar energy system from Asheville-based renewable energy firm, SolTherm. “The project couldn’t have been a better fit for [...]
IRVING, Texas–Fluor Corporation FLR-1.82% announced today that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power Group, has awarded the company a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing operations and maintenance services (O&M) for its new nominal 125-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility [...]
NRG Energy, Inc. and First Solar, Inc. this week announced an agreement for First Solar to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for NRG’s 66 megawatt (AC) Alpine solar project in Lancaster, California. First Solar will also provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services. Electricity from the Alpine project will be sold under a 20-year power [...]
In October 2011, BrightSource Energy filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission for the development of a three 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power plants (750 megawatts nominal combined) in California’s Riverside County. If approved, the Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Facility (SEGF) will use BrightSource’s proprietary LPT solar thermal energy system and [...]
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to [...]
Energy service providers help to pinpoint gaps in energy efficiency and opportunities for renewable energy and to optimize energy supply, whether for a single facility or an entire real estate portfolio. Ameresco, Inc. , a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today it has been reaccredited by the National Association of Energy Service [...]
International PV experts gather in San Jose Nov 30 –Dec 1 to discuss how to drive down LCOE and boost MW output through improved balance of systems engineering. What is the future for utility scale solar? According to recent reports and commitment from utilities in the Southwest and East coast USA, the future is optimistic. [...]
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Renewable Social Benefit Funds (RSB Funds) has unveiled a solar energy financing program exclusively for nonprofit and tax-exempt entities in the U.S. that will guarantee solar power at a 5% savings compared to the cost of traditional power. RSB Funds has partnered with Pacific Edison, Golden Power Partners and Martifer Solar USA for the implementation [...]
Aug 1 2010 | Posted in
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At the CSP Yield Optimization Conference and Expo you will learn how to maximize your plant output through crucial strategies including… * Maximize Your Megawatts – hear proven tactics to ensure you are getting the best output from your CSP plant and are being as cost-competitive as you can * Optimizing Plant Performance – discover [...]
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