A new report, released yesterday, shows that clean car and truck research, development, and production are already creating 155,000 jobs in the United States, and they could create a ton more green jobs in the coming years with proper policies….
BrightSource Energy, which is working on a massive solar power plant in California, the Ivanpah solar power plant (one we’ve written about numerous times over the years), filed to build two more large-scale power plants in California on Friday. These are each supposed to be almost twice the size of Ivanpah, 250 MW compared to 130 MW.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) have tapped BMW subsidiary, DesignworksUSA, to create a new fleet of train cars to replace those that have been diligently serving the Bay Area since 1972. The new trains “are expected to be the lightest and most energy-efficient for their performance in the world.”
One of the nation’s largest solar lead generation companies, Clean Energy Experts, just announced that it has launched a new website, Solar-California.org to help CA homeowners save money by investing in solar. According to the company press release, the goal of the site is to “present facts about solar power, how to prepare for a solar installation, available financing and leasing programs, current solar tax rebates and incentives in California, and estimates on the costs of a system.”
Driving an electric vehicle can be a little stressful if you have to worry about your car’s charge running out in the middle of nowhere. Enter Mitsubishi, who has recently announced the debut of a solar-powered charging station at their headquarters in Cypress, California.
The Abengoa Mojave Solar Project that we covered two years ago when it signed a 600 gigawatthour annual power contract with PG&E has just got the BLM permit approval for its 250 MW solar thermal project in California, Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today. In several hurdles jumped recently, … [continued]
Since putting itself on the market for renewables with its 33% renewable energy requirement, California has become like a wildly popular debutante, with a superfluity of suitors offering what Energy Prospects is calling a “glut” of renewable projects to meet the need. Three times more would-be renewable energy projects are … [continued]
These look pretty cool. And apparently they are getting popular in San Diego. They are small wind turbines combined with solar panels from DyoCore. The name of this product is SolAir.
I know, solar panel records are set almost everyday these days, it seems. One reason solar power costs have already dropped over 20% this year. But who doesn’t love a “new solar panel record set” story?
Interested to know which solar panel companies make the most sales in California? Well, the California Solar Initiative (CSI) has compiled and revealed data on just that.
