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India Has Allocated 1172 MW Of Solar Power In Three Years

February 26th, 2013 | by Joshua S Hill

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) revealed that they have assigned 1172 megawatts (MW) of grid-connected solar power [&hellip

EPIA Challenges European Students To Create Videos To Dispel Solar Myths

February 16th, 2013 | by Chelsea

Pop quiz: Is Germany is sunnier than the USA? Is solar getting more expensive? Are solar panels useless on cloudy [&hellip

IEA Says Energy Industry In Troubled Water With Future Water Usage

February 11th, 2013 | by Chelsea

It’s an easily forgotten necessity of energy production: the billions of cubic meters (BCM) of freshwater that is necessary for [&hellip

Haiti’s Solar Powered Hospital

February 1st, 2013 | by Chelsea

Maintaining steady electricity flow in hospitals is literally an issue of life and death. In places where electrical power is [&hellip

WWF Report Finds Solar Land Use Doesn’t Conflict With Conservation Goals

January 17th, 2013 | by Chelsea

Oh, naysayers, brace yourselves for this doozy! The World Wildlife Fund has come out with a report that land used [&hellip

Capacity of Planned and Operating Microgrids Continues to Grow

May 14th, 2012 | by Joshua S Hill

A new report shows that, as of the second quarter of 2012, the number of microgrids either planned, proposed [&hellip

Solar Power to Pay Nevada City’s Debt, Government Costs for Decades

February 8th, 2012 | by Silvio Marcacci

Boulder City, Nevada is best known as the home of Hoover Dam, once the largest hydroelectric power plant in the country. But the rapid expansion of solar power projects is quickly making a name for the city as the first solar-financed town in America.

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Solar Power Less Expensive than Analysts Purport

December 8th, 2011 | by Joshua S Hill

(Editor’s note: this is NOT even taking health, energy security, and environmental costs into account — not what this [&hellip

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International Solar PV Nearly Doubled, PV Growth Doubled in 2010

February 17th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) has reported that solar photovoltaic (PV) power increased by 16 GW in 2010 around [&hellip

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Solar & Wind Energy News of the Last Week (or So)

February 5th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

Along with cleantech politics news and other cleantech news from the past week or so, here’s some news on wind [&hellip

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World’s Largest Solar Park to be in South Africa?

October 26th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan

Sunny South Africa wouldn’t be a bad place to put a big solar park, and the government there knows it. [&hellip

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Solar Industry Has a Record Year, but Expecting to Climb Much Higher in 2010

March 31st, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan

[social_buttons] The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) released figures yesterday showing that the global solar photovoltaic industry had a record [&hellip

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World's Largest Solar PV Farm in Italy Soon

March 14th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan

US solar energy company SunEdison has announced final plans to build the largest photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the world,.. [&hellip

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Solar PV Firm Bets on Bioplastic

January 7th, 2010 | by Derek Markham

Shrink Nanotechnologies is one of several companies that is using bioplastics to find a new way of making devices that [&hellip

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Dried-Up Owens Lake to Get Remedial Solar Array

December 9th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer

In probably the first ever example of using solar for environmental remediation, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power wants to try using a small 50-MW photovoltaic plant at Owens Lake for dust control