Renewable Energy News

200th solar-powered radio site installed by Alcatel-Lucent
Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
In sunny regions, solar power is a reliable and eco-friendly alternative to traditional diesel generators, whose dependency on the oil market makes …
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World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona in 2011
Inhabitat – USA
The Arizona solar power plant has been named Solana, which means “a sunny place” in Spanish, and will be located 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, …
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Solar Power Heats Up: Another Plant Planned for Southwest
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
By John G. Edwards By JOHN G. EDWARDS A giant Spanish company contracts to build a solar power plant that will generate electricity for a Southwestern …
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Akeena Solar Continues to Expand Southern California Footprint
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
“With the right kinds of programs in place, an estimated 50 percent of all new electricity in the US could be generated by solar power within eight years. …
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Pacific Park to Replace Famous Solar-powered Wheel
The Lookout News – Santa Monica,CA,USA
Starting May 8, the Santa Monica Bay skyline will go dark for 14 days as the two-acre seaside amusement park dismantles the world-famous solar-powered …
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Regenerating From Wasted Energy
Korea Times – South Korea
The government is giving out subsidies to encourage the supply of renewable, eco-friendly energy such as wind power and solar power. But at the same time, …
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Canadian Solar Building Silicon Wafer Plant
Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
So far, it has grown into a global provider of solar power products. Currently, more Chinese investors are swarming into PV industry, …
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Victoria to get solar power plant
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A project to build a solar power plant in Victoria with $79.5 million promised by the former Howard government has been launched by new Climate Change …
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Best 1-Year Performer: First Solar
Wall Street Journal – USA
Many industry observers expect solar power to become common, propelled by falling costs, a desire for greater domestic energy security and a push to address …
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Solar to power homes in northern Vic
ABC Online – Australia
Energy company TRUenergy has committed almost $300 million, towards a solar power station set for northern Victoria. Construction will begin in the Mildura …
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Google News Alert for: Solar Power

Turning our homes into suburban powerhouses
NEWS.com.au – Australia
Urban ecologist Herbert Girardet says if three conditions are met each house can become a solar power station where houses produce more energy than they …
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Photovoltaics startup raises $10 million
EETimes.com – USA
Israel has been stepping up its investments in solar energy, and groups are planning the first solar power generating station, which is due to be built in …
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AIS rolls-out solar powered base stations
Telecom Paper (subscription) – Houten,Netherlands
Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) has introduced solar power units for base stations. The solar powered base stations are part of the ‘Green …
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Proposed solar project could have helped SA: union
SABC News – Johannesburg,South Africa
Solar power needs to be one of the solutions that they need to start implementing now to ensure that we do have enough electricity over the long-term. …
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Energy incentives push by SA Govt
ABC Online – Australia
… cent of Australia’s population but we have about 50 per cent of the nation’s wind power and nearly 50 per cent of the nation’s solar power,” he said. …
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Reasons to see red over green energy
Guardian Unlimited – UK
This works by rewarding those who produce power from wind or solar power with an above-market payment guaranteed for 20 years. The additional cost is spread …
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Renewable power’s rise has Nevada in place to capitalize
Las Vegas Review – Journal – Las Vegas,NV,USA
By JOHN G. EDWARDS Gene Cattaneo, a Las Vegas renewable-energy entrepreneur, believed solar power’s day was coming as surely as the sun would rise the next …
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Knowledge is power — solar power
Charlotte Sun-Herald – Charlotte Harbor,FL,USA
Students involved in Charlotte Academy’s after-school math and science club have been building knowledge with power — solar power that is. …
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US has more sun but Europe has more solar power…for now
ZDNet Blogs – USA
A new study of the Concentrated Solar Power industry shows Europe to be far ahead, with major growth in the US a couple years away. …
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JOWDER DISCUSSES SOLAR POWER GENERATION WITH JAPANESE DELEGATION
Bahrain News Agency – Bahrain
THEY DISCUSSED THE SOLAR ENERGY POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY USING PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF SHARP IN THE MANUFACTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF …
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DEK to illuminate solar energy sector
EMSNow (press release) – Stetchworth,England,UK
DEK has announced a new strategic business focus in the Solar Energy market and detailed some compelling initiatives for photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacture. …
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Commentary: It’s time to think about the nation’s new energy future
The Daily Advertiser – Lafayette,LA,USA
The green-city will be the home to 50000 people and will be mostly powered by solar energy. Regarding US efforts toward energy independence, Peter Morici, …
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Global Warming Solutions plans hybrid solar plant
Gizmag – Victoria,Australia
Additionally, transforming solar energy into electricity more efficiency will result in a decrease in the cost of solar power. LETG modules could also be …
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Glasstech Forms New Solar Systems Business Unit, Includes Several …
Glass on Web – San Floriano del Collio,Italy
Michael Ondrus Named Director Of Solar Energy Systems. Versatile Equipment Provides Flat and Bent, Heat-Strengthened or Tempered Perrysburg, Ohio, …
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ENERGY FLASHES
Mother Earth News – Topeka,KS,USA
… psychologist says that people who once took pride in having the first color television set on the block are now installing solar energy systems. …
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Retired professor teaches simple ways to use solar energy
Nevada Appeal – Carson City,NV,USA
Solar energy will be a key to help the country to break its reliance on fossil fuels, he said, but more time in the sun just feels good, too. …
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The Current State of the Solar Energy Sector
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
There are 2 well known technologies: Thin Film which includes First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ:ENER), and many exciting private …
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Renewables – Time to Act. 2
Malta Independent Online – Malta
By 2020, we must install the equivalent of 52 offshore 3.5MW wind turbines or find four to six square kilometres to install solar energy installations. …
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Team aims for super charge from solar energy
London Free Press – Canada
By KATHERINA DEHAAS, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA Solar energy may be free — but converting it to usable power doesn’t come cheaply. Now a team of London-based …
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US work force continues to move to green-collar jobs
Seattle Times – United States
Last year set a record, with 314 megawatts of new solar capacity installed in the US, said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association …
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Speaker to address wind power potential
Rapid City Journal – Rapid City,SD,USA
Mike Trykoski, chairman of the board of the South Dakota Energy Infrastructure Authority, will talk about “Issues Affecting Wind Power Development in South …
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Carbon commitment is fine, but action would be better
Scotsman – United Kingdom
Instead, the future is being dictated by big business pushing for development of large-scale, onshore wind power stations which will radically change our …
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Wind Power: What impact on the European Grids?
Sia Conseil Energy Blog – Brussels,Belgium
The decentralized nature of wind power comes into contradiction to historical structure for centralized national grids. Areas for wind turbines …
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Wind Generator Notes
Mother Earth News – Topeka,KS,USA
Brief introduction, including a windplant design service and the wind power digest. Section include… ROWLAND MORGAN SAYS: “YOU TOO, MAY BE ABLE TO SELL …
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Revolutionising energy sector
The Post – Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan
Solar energy is a very much sustainable way of power generation. Wind power has competition with traditional fossil power in most of Europe and parts of …
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Google’s latest search: Renewable energy
New Zealand Herald – New Zealand
It has invested another US$10 million in Alameda, California-based Makani Power, which is developing high-altitude wind technologies. …
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Your Letters | Readers Respond
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
In my view, the biggest problem with wind power generation is the fickle nature of the wind itself. Wind energy will always be a highly fluctuating source, …
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Student’s project: tilting for windmills
Boston Globe – United States
“It’s easy to fall asleep when talking about zoning, but if you don’t have it, the market [for wind power] is just bottlenecked,” said Ron Stimmel, …
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Google News Alert for: Solar Energy

Moser Baer to invest $1.5 bn in solar power
Economic Times – Gurgaon,Haryana,India
NEW DELHI: Betting big on power generation through solar energy, Moser Baer India is investing about $1.5 billion in increasing its thin-film photovoltaic …
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Is solar energy a viable solution to reducing oil dependence?
Helium – Andover,MA,USA
Most of my time that summer was spent unfreezing air conditioners and fixing the solar collectors that were used to heat the water for the hotel, …
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“You are better off just burning oil, coal and gas in generators.”
Seattle Times – United States
One has to grasp the vast energy demand of this country to realize that wind, wave and solar energy can only supply a token amount of the power we generate …
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Q&A: ‘There is no monogamy in energy‘
Times of India – India
I think an energy solution based on thorium is very important for India. Where then does India’s future lie in energy security? In solar energy, beyond …
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Germany’s First “Solar-Powered City”
Donga.com – Seoul,South Korea
Marburg in Hessen has become the first city in Germany to require all new buildings to install a solar energy heating system. House owners in Marburg, …
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Israel to hold tender for solar energy plants
Reuters UK – UK
The two solar energy plants will supply 250 megawatts of electricity, equal to 3 percent of Israel’s electricity consumption. The ministry is also planning …
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Plan to conserve energy solar power based lights for Pakistan …
Unique Pakistan – Karachi,Sindh,Pakistan
The government has decided to use solar energy-based lights on all important buildings, like Prime Minister House and Secretariat, as part of energy-saving …
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Work starts on Gulf ‘green city’
BBC News – UK
The city will be mostly powered by solar energy and residents will move in travel pods running on magnetic tracks. Abu Dhabi has one of the world’s biggest …
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Storing Energy Using Graphite
The Oil Drum – USA
The Canberra Times recently published an article, rather misleadingly entitled “Generating solar energy in the dark”, which looked at the use of purified …
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‘Green energy‘ myths are just holding us back
Daily Press – Newport News,VA,USA
Take concentrated solar energy — which uses massive lenses and mirrors to “concentrate” the sun’s rays to quickly produce cheap electricity. …
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New Law Offers Solar Savings
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG – Honolulu,HI,USA
Councilmember Charles Djou spearheaded the measure, which adds to the savings already associated with buying photovoltaic solar energy systems. …
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Power Plays
Wall Street Journal – USA
By YULIYA CHERNOVA and JONATHAN SHIEBER Solar power has been one of the hottest areas of alternative-energy investment in recent weeks, …
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Crist in Town for Solar Power Project
WWSB – Sarasota,FL,USA
Crist is teaming up with FPL to initiate Florida’s largest solar power system. The system will collect energy from the sun, and convert it into 100% …
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XL Telecom focuses on export market of solar panels
Equity Bulls – Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
XL is focusing emerging Grid Connected Solar Solutions, which is growing at a fast pace recently as against conventional Stand alone Solar Power Systems. …
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Government to lift all corners of the country out of the dark
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
The second is through the use of renewable energy sources such as hydro and solar power, which are available everywhere. Those kinds of energy can be used …
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Vibrating raindrops may power our homes
ABC Science Online – Australia
It could also be used with solar power to scavenge as much energy from the environment as possible, or to power tiny, wireless sensors designed to monitor …
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Moser Baer to invest $1.5 bn in solar power
Economic Times – Gurgaon,Haryana,India
NEW DELHI: Betting big on power generation through solar energy, Moser Baer India is investing about $1.5 billion in increasing its thin-film photovoltaic …
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Red-Tape is Stifling Growth in the Solar Power Sector
RenewableEnergyAccess.com – Peterborough,NH,USA
They hear many stories about how well the solar power sector is doing in America. Unfortunately, when they take a peek, renewable energy is an expensive …
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Nuclear power regains respect among Ukrainians
Helium – Andover,MA,USA
Environmentalists fought for the alternative solar and wind plants. The solar power plant at Scholkino first generated electricity in September 1985, …
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Feb 09 K4RY Moves Station to Solar Power
ARRL – Hartford,CT,USA
Operating on alternative power sources such as generators, batteries and solar power is a useful skill, whether for fun or when Amateur Radio is pressed …
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Sunny Propositions
Northender (subscription) – Oyster Bay,NY,USA
According to them, technology has advanced to the point that solar power is now a workable energy alternative; and it is up to the public to make elected …
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