SolarCity, one of the top solar energy providers in the United States, recently announced its planned expansion to Nevada. With the support of Governor Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Office of Economic Development, the Solarcity expansion is predicted to create hundreds of new jobs in the area over the next several years. In … [continued]
Here’s some more top solar energy news from the week (other than our own stories — which you can find via the link above): Rooftop Solar Why Utilites Will Pay A Premium For Rooftop Solar: “A power company rang me up last week offering to increase my rooftop solar … [continued]
I just gave a presentation today to a class of renewable energy graduate students which mentioned solar PV’s tremendous growth over the past several years and its projected growth in the coming years. As the U.S. Solar Market Insight: Third Quarter 2012 report released today shows, the US Solar industry is indeed still … [continued]
The Moapa River Indian Reservation will be hosting a new 250MW solar plant soon. It is expected to be operational by 2016. Two thousand of the reservation’s 71,680 acres will be used for the 910,000 solar panels. The land that will be used for the plant is northeast of … [continued]
Part of Obama’s “We Can’t Wait” renewable energy strategy, the 7 projects have been deemed “nationally and regionally significant.” If completed, they would add 5 GW of max rated clean, renewable power capacity to the US total. […]
Ted Turner (or Turner Renewable Energy) and Southern Company have teamed up to acquire and put on line a 20-MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Nevada, the Apex Solar Project. The project was built by SunEdison. “Construction of the solar array began in October 2011 and commercial operation is expected … [continued]
The world’s first geothermal-solar power plant was dedicated in Fallon, Nevada at the beginning of the month. “The Stillwater geothermal project, which received $40 million in tax support under the Recovery Act, has harnessed innovative technologies to add solar energy to the facility and provide 59 megawatts (MW) of combined capacity to … [continued]
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting. 2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH has developed a floating platform designed to be used for offshore … [continued]
A lot of new, large, solar and wind power projects have been announced, finished, or funded in the past day or so, so I thought I’d do a combined post on all of these together. Washington’s Largest Wind Power Project, the 343-MW Lower Snake River Wind Facility-Phase I, began commercial operation … [continued]
Because of all the media attention about solar power, most people think of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. People in or on the fringe of the clean energy business might know about the Chinese’ so called “dumping” of low cost PV panels onto the U. S. market; about how schools … [continued]
