As I did in the middle of the month, sharing some stories with you that I never had the opportunity to get to but think you might like to check out. Hope you enjoy them… Clean Transport Can Streetcars Save America’s Cities? In a down economy, pursuing the American dream … [continued]
I know, Mridul normally covers our India stories, but I like to cover one from time to time myself as well. Gujarat, an Indian state, announced plans earlier today to invest over 105 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) in a 500-MW solar park. No small news. “The proposed park will be … [continued]
The Indian government recently provided subsidies worth $10 million for projects aimed at promoting the use of solar energy in rural areas. The subsidies went to projects which distributed solar lanterns and installed solar home-lighting systems in villages across the country. In a statement released by the Ministry of New … [continued]
An interestingly novel way of comparing solar power with nuclear power finds that solar easily bests nuclear. Ken Zweibel has an analysis at The Solar Review, that compares the two kinds of electrical energy, in terms of how much power is packed into each gram of its respective material: cadmium … [continued]
I covered Network for New Energy Choices’ 2009 Freeing the Grid report last December. A good report on “which states make it easy for people to sell electricity to the grid and which make it difficult.” NNEC now has the 2010 Freeing the Grid report out. As a little reminder, NNEC (in … [continued]
The Pittsburgh Steelers have partnered up with a local environmental initiative to bring a solar powered tire pump to fans tailgating at this Sunday’s game versus the New York Jets. The matchup is also among the home games in which the Steelers have teamed up with aluminum giant Alcoa to … [continued]
California regulators have just approved yet another 650 MW of solar thermal power for the state. The California Energy Commission (CEC) has voted to license the 500-MW Palen project and the 150-MW Rice project in Southern California, which now brings to nine the number of solar thermal power projects approved … [continued]
Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base flipped the switch on its first solar power installation in 2007, a 14-megawatt behemoth that was the largest of its kind at the time. The Air Force must have been pleased with the performance of solar energy in the three years since then, because according … [continued]
Okay, so everybody knows about Hoosiers basketball and the Indy 500, but those two sports powerhouses might soon have to take a back seat to another Indiana superstar: solar power. The largest thin film solar plant in the U.S. is slated to be developed in Tipton, Indiana and it will … [continued]
Michael Kanellos at Greentech media has a story about an interesting concept for energy reduction that is new to me: switching a data center to DC power. SAP is making some energy retrofits to save money, and while the three biggest savers are the usual ones that we all know … [continued]
