120 Solar Jobs For Veterans Vs. 35 Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs
Support our troops: while Keystone fans obsess over 35 oil jobs, 120 solar jobs are already waiting for military veterans in a new solar training program.
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Nothing Can Stop The US Solar Industry Juggernaut Now
The Energy Department has come up with $59 million in seed money to get the US solar industry cracking on the next stage of growth.
Thin-Film Solar Company Siva Power Wins DOE Sunshot Award
Siva Power, based in San Jose, California, has won a competitive award from the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative. The award includes a $3 million grant to help develop its thin-film solar power technology. Siva is developing copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells using a co-evaporation process. If this … [continued]
Community And Home Solar Remain Great Investments
Originally published on Cost of Solar. If you’re considering buying into a community or home solar project in the future, then you may want to do it within the next year or so. Both the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have recently found that home … [continued]
Why Do Some US States Have Higher Rooftop Solar Installation Than Others?
Why do some states outperform others so much when it comes to solar installations? In an effort funded by the US DOE’s SunShot Initiative, NREL researchers used statistical analysis and detailed case studies to better understand why solar market policies in certain states are more successful and lead to higher … [continued]
NREL & SolarCity Join Forces In Hawaii
Originally published on Solar Love. Hawaii is one of the hottest solar markets in the world. Good solar resources, high electricity prices, and low solar panel prices have made it one of the first markets to hit “grid parity.” But there are still challenges getting the utilities to accept and … [continued]
Solar Grid Storage Wins US DoE SunShot Incubator Award & Funding
One of the market pioneers in solar energy storage systems/solutions, Solar Grid Storage, has won one of the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative awards+funding, according to a recent press statement. The funding that accompanies the “Incubator” award — $968,120 in this instance — is to be used for the … [continued]
US Energy Department Awards $2 Million To Cogenra Solar Via SunShot Initiative
The US Department of Energy has awarded $2 million in funding to the high-performance solar technology company Cogenra Solar through its Energy SunShot Initiative, as per a recent press release. Cogenra is reportedly planning to use this award to scale up its record-setting Dense Cell Interconnect (DCI) technology, via the … [continued]
“Solarmojo” For Solar Employee Benefits, 60-Day Discount For All Americans!
“Solarmojo” sounds a bit like fantasy, but using the term as a promo code will get you a chance to cut your electric bills in half, starting today. Online solar panel cost consultants from Geostellar, a West Virginia company, have worked with the WWF species conservation organization to set up … [continued]
Solar System Prices Decreased By 20% In 2013
RenewEconomy. A new report from the US Department of Energy has revealed that system prices for distributed solar PV in America dropped by between 12 and 19 per cent nationwide in 2013 – and will likely fall by a further 3-12 per cent this year, depending on system location and … [continued]
