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Solar industry manufacturing consortium PVMC and NREL aim to help reduce the installed cost of thin-film CIGS solar PV by 75%, an effort that falls right in line with targets set out in PVMC’s thin-film PV industry roadmap and President Obama’s SunShot Initiative.
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The US solar market and industry is growing fast, diversifying, and broadening out geographically, a clear sign solar energy is coming into the US energy mainstream, according to SEIA-GTM Research’s 2012 year in review.
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The US solar energy market and industry fired on all cylinders in 2012 despite headwinds in Congress, a fragile economic recovery, internal industry turmoil, and ongoing opposition from fossil fuel and utility industry players, according to SEIA-GTM’s Solar Market Insight 2012 year in review.
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The Efficiency Resource Fund’s partners aim to bridge the financing gap for small- and medium-sized businesses looking to make energy efficiency improvements. Doing so could yield significant reductions in US carbon emissions and generate lots of green jobs, as well as returns for investors.
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The carbon tax debate continues in the US Congress as sponsors and stakeholders assert carbon-pricing legislation would address the most challenging, and interrelated, problems facing the US today. Amounting to a tax on carbon emissions, the discussion draft’s sponsors are soliciting public feedback on how best to allocate proceeds.
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Building capacity – capacity in terms of human resources, particularly – is key to driving the transition to a clean green energy system and society forward. Under the Obama Administration, federal government agencies – the EPA, Departments of Energy, Interior, Defense, and others – have been playing a leading role in blazing the trail toward a clean-energy, low-carbon society. Aiming to keep US clean energy development and growth going strong, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) … Read More
Taking a holistic, integrated approach to sustainable data center design and construction, NREL’s HPC data center will be the first to achieve a Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.06 or better. It will also be the first petascale HPC to use warm-water liquid cooling, making extensive use of waste heat to warm the interior and exterior of NREL’s new Energy Systems Integration Facility.
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Looking to put an abandoned, open pit iron mine to good use, Toronto’s Northland Power intends to transform the former Bethlehem Steel site between Ottawa and Toronto into a 400 megawatt (MW) pumped hydro power storage facility.
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Establishing a single national policy and regulatory standard for residential solar energy systems that grants “homeowners the right to install a standardized, under 10 kW system, using UL-listed components, following National Electrical Code standards, installed by a qualified contractor subject to a single local inspection,” should be the first step taken, SFN contends.
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