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Showing posts with label Solar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solar. Show all posts
Thursday
Friday
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona
Digg:
"The lucky sunny state of Arizona is about to become home to the world’s largest Solar Plant! Thanks to a just-announced contract between Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the enormous solar plant called Solana will power up to 70,000 homes, and will be the first example in the country of a major utility..."
Digg:
"The lucky sunny state of Arizona is about to become home to the world’s largest Solar Plant! Thanks to a just-announced contract between Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the enormous solar plant called Solana will power up to 70,000 homes, and will be the first example in the country of a major utility..."
Saturday
Does going solar pay off?
See also: Steal Us, It's Free!
Does going solar pay off?
Excerpt:
"Even as states ramp up incentives, the payback for homeowners remains elusive....
Despite the minuscule amount of solar power generated today -- roughly one-thirtieth of 1% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. -- recent technological advances and a continued decline in the price of solar systems are prompting more homeowners to ask if this renewable energy source is now worth the investment.
Analysts say they are still crunching the numbers when it comes to deciding whether residential solar systems, also referred to as photovoltaic or PV systems, make economic sense. The answer hinges on how much and how fast solar can cut a homeowner's utility bills and thus how long it takes to pay off the initial investment to add solar panels to a home."
http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Green/Article_mw.aspx?cp-documentid=3609262
Does going solar pay off?
Excerpt:
"Even as states ramp up incentives, the payback for homeowners remains elusive....
Despite the minuscule amount of solar power generated today -- roughly one-thirtieth of 1% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. -- recent technological advances and a continued decline in the price of solar systems are prompting more homeowners to ask if this renewable energy source is now worth the investment.
Analysts say they are still crunching the numbers when it comes to deciding whether residential solar systems, also referred to as photovoltaic or PV systems, make economic sense. The answer hinges on how much and how fast solar can cut a homeowner's utility bills and thus how long it takes to pay off the initial investment to add solar panels to a home."
http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Green/Article_mw.aspx?cp-documentid=3609262
Tuesday
Nanosolar Ships First Panels
Nanosolar Ships First Panels
Excerpt:
"Posted by Martin Roscheisen, CEO
After five years of product development – including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction – we now have shipped first product and received our first check of product revenue."
http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/12/18/nanosolar-ships-first-panels/
See also: New York Times - Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost
Excerpt:
"Posted by Martin Roscheisen, CEO
After five years of product development – including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction – we now have shipped first product and received our first check of product revenue."
http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/12/18/nanosolar-ships-first-panels/
See also: New York Times - Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost
Monday
How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power
How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power
Excerpt:
"Europe is considering plans to spend more than £5bn on a string of giant solar power stations along the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
More than a hundred of the generators, each fitted with thousands of huge mirrors, would generate electricity to be transmitted by undersea cable to Europe and then distributed across the continent to European Union member nations, including Britain."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/02/renewableenergy.solarpower
Excerpt:
"Europe is considering plans to spend more than £5bn on a string of giant solar power stations along the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
More than a hundred of the generators, each fitted with thousands of huge mirrors, would generate electricity to be transmitted by undersea cable to Europe and then distributed across the continent to European Union member nations, including Britain."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/02/renewableenergy.solarpower
Tuesday
EPIA Says Solar Power Can Help the Developing World
EPIA Says Solar Power Can Help the Developing World
Excerpt:
""The photovoltaic technology has proven to be one of the best solutions to bring flexible and long term solutions for rural electrification in the poorest areas of the planet. Therefore the EC [European Commission] must ensure that their initiatives address the real energy needs and the suitable technology to provide sustainable access to electricity. A main criterion is to reinforce support to small and medium sized projects," said Ernesto Macias, Vice-president of EPIA and president of the Alliance for Rural Electrification."
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50543&src=rss
Excerpt:
""The photovoltaic technology has proven to be one of the best solutions to bring flexible and long term solutions for rural electrification in the poorest areas of the planet. Therefore the EC [European Commission] must ensure that their initiatives address the real energy needs and the suitable technology to provide sustainable access to electricity. A main criterion is to reinforce support to small and medium sized projects," said Ernesto Macias, Vice-president of EPIA and president of the Alliance for Rural Electrification."
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50543&src=rss
Wednesday
From Silicon Trash to Solar Energy
From Silicon Trash to Solar Energy
Excerpt:
"Yesterday IBM announced a new semiconductor wafer reclamation process pioneered at its Burlington, Vermont manufacturing facility. The new process uses a specialized pattern removal technique to repurpose scrap semiconductor wafers -- thin discs of silicon material used to imprint patterns that make finished semiconductor chips for computers, mobile phones, video games, and other consumer electronics -- to a form used to manufacture silicon-based solar panels."
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50443&src=rss
Excerpt:
"Yesterday IBM announced a new semiconductor wafer reclamation process pioneered at its Burlington, Vermont manufacturing facility. The new process uses a specialized pattern removal technique to repurpose scrap semiconductor wafers -- thin discs of silicon material used to imprint patterns that make finished semiconductor chips for computers, mobile phones, video games, and other consumer electronics -- to a form used to manufacture silicon-based solar panels."
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50443&src=rss
Tuesday
Google's Love for Solar May Extend to Other Renewables
Excerpt:
"When it comes to bragging rights and solar power, Google's on top: it has the largest corporate installation of solar-powered electricity yet.
But that apparently is just the beginning. The search giant is also considering other forms of renewable energy, according to Robyn Beavers, the director of environmental programs at Google. Google intends to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from renewable forms for its operations by 2012."
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807330-7.html
"When it comes to bragging rights and solar power, Google's on top: it has the largest corporate installation of solar-powered electricity yet.
But that apparently is just the beginning. The search giant is also considering other forms of renewable energy, according to Robyn Beavers, the director of environmental programs at Google. Google intends to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from renewable forms for its operations by 2012."
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807330-7.html
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