Some top clean electricity reading for your Tuesday (& more?) pleasure: Solar America’s Top Solar Cities Rankings Might Surprise You (Also: Top 10 Cities For Solar Power) Vivint Solar Employee Sent to ‘Casual’ Roundtable Meeting Gets a Shock Colorado Utility To Bring Solar Power To Low-Income Families Yingli Solar Profits Rise 53.4% in 2014, Ships Over 3.3 … [continued]
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Originally published on EIA. California has become the first state with more than 5% of its annual utility-scale electricity generation from utility-scale solar power, according to EIA’s Electric Power Monthly. California’s utility-scale (1 megawatt (MW) or larger) solar plants generated a record 9.9 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity in 2014, … [continued]
By John Perlin I gave a lecture in March at the University of California, San Diego, on the evolution of solar architecture and technology over the millennia, based on my recent book, Let It Shine, starting with the Neolithic Chinese reckoning of the sun’s path throughout the year and how they made use … [continued]
Get your clean electricity fixin’s here (after scrolling through our own clean electricity stories): Solar Energy Rooftop/Small-Scale Solar Make Cities Solar Hubs, Says Stanford Study New Homes Must Be Ready For Solar Panels Says San Diego SolarCity Hits Record 4GWh/Day Energy Generation SolarCity To Offer Integrated Microgrid System Bringing Solar … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. One of the top solar energy companies in the world, SunPower, is close to completing what will be the “world’s largest solar power plant” in Southern California, according to recent reports. The 579 megawatt (MW) Solar Star project is now mostly online, and is on … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The first departure date from Myanmar for Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) has been updated by Solar Impulse to be March 26. While we wait for the 5th flight of the round-the-world attempt that will carry the sun-powered airplane from Mandalay, Myanmar, to Chongqing, China, it might be fun to see what Martin Saive … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. To celebrate the arrival of the Solar Impulse airplane in Mandalay, Solar Impulse says Swiss pilots and co-founders of Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, were elated to announce a partnership between ABB, the world’s leading power and automation technology group, and PACT, an international NGO, to bring solar energy to … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) took off for its fourth flight, from Varanasi (Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, VNS/VIBN) in the Republic of India to Mandalay (Mandalay International Airport, MDL/VYMD) in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, at 23:52 UTC. Solar Impulse says Bertrand Piccard flew the zero-fuel airplane … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. Solar Impulse says the 4th stopover in the round-the-world attempt will be in Myanmar, Mandalay, where Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) will be grounded for three days. Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar and the last royal capital of Burma, will give the team warm, dry days with an abundance of sunshine to charge the solar cells on … [continued]
