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US Solar Industry Adds Jobs at 6.8% Pace

By Andrew Burger On September 22, 2011 — 9 Comments

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Why We Should Democratize the Electricity System — Part 5 – Overcoming the Roadblocks

By John Farrell On September 22, 2011 — 4 Comments

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Obama Issues Veto Threat to Defend Clean Air Act

By Susan Kraemer On September 22, 2011 — 2 Comments

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New Kind of 40% Efficient Solar Farm Gets $90 Million DOE Loan Guarantee to Cogentrix

By Susan Kraemer On September 21, 2011 — 8 Comments

The largest High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) project in the world is being funded by the DOE with a $90 million loan guarantee for the Cogentrix Alamosa Solar Generating Project. The first 20 years of the electricity it will generate has already been bought under a PPA (power purchase agreement) by the Public Service Company of Colorado. More than 80 percent of its components will be sourced from the United States. HCPV is new form of utility-scale solar that has barely been developed, but it has great potential because it has almost twice the efficiency of regular solar PV. Cogentrix HCPV is rated at 40% efficient. By comparison, most coal plants are typically rated at 30% efficiency. The $90 million in funding represents the tail end of almost $40 billion in loan guarantees, loans, or conditional guarantees by the US Department of Energy (DOE) powered by the Obama administration stimulus Recovery Act. One famously went bad, $0.5 billion to Solyndra. But the more than 40 DOE loan guarantees have

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