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Created on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Solar power, Climate Change, Winter, ski resort
May 22 -- Now that it's almost summer, snow might be a diminishing thought on most people's minds, but as Jeremy Jones recently pointed out to the U.S. Senate and President Barack Obama, the state of winter ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: SolarCity, solar power, renewable energy, military, rooftop solar, clean energy
May 15 -- SolarCity and Forest City Communities announced last week the start of a project providing solar energy for 6,500 military homes at the Marine Corps Base and the Navy Region in Hawaii, located ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Elon Musk, SolarCity, renewable energy, clean energy, solar power, solar energy
May 14 -- Sun Concept, Ampulse, Evergreen, Solyndra: the long list of defunct solar companies is enough to give pause to anyone trying to enter the business. But at least one company, SolarCity, has ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: LA, Los Angeles, renewable energy, clean energy, solar power, solar energy
May 14 -- Los Angeles’s power utility, which serves about 1.5 million customers, will seek bids from developers for 250 megawatts of solar power to comply with a California requirement to get 25 percent ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 08 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Oregon, solar energy, solar power, renewable energy, clean energy, OSEIA
May 8 -- The Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association has just published a major new peer-reviewed study, Vision to Integrate Solar in Oregon (VISOR). Bonneville Environmental Foundation was the ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 06 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Churches, solar power, St. John's Lutheran Church, Texas, renewable energy, clean energy, environment
May 6 -- St. John's Lutheran Church constructed its towering sanctuary nearly a century ago when congregations spent money to build grand, impressive structures for worship services. Modern heating and ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 02 May 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Massachusetts, clean energy, renewable energy, solar power, Deval Patrick
May 2 -- Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration has set a new goal for solar energy installations in Massachusetts after reaching its initial target four years early. Patrick said the state’s new goal will ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: wind power, wind energy, Ohio, Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, AEPs, energy efficiency, clean energy, solar power, ALEC
April 16 -- In 2008, Ohio committed to generating more than 12 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. At the same time, the state set a goal of improving energy efficiency by 22 percent by ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 15 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: renewable energy, clean energy, NFL, solar power, wind power, solar panels, wind turbines, Philadelphia Eagles
April 15 -- The Eagles' newest player is a real powerhouse. The stats are electrifying: On a recent sunny day, this bulky unit churned out 21,033.7 kilowatt hours, nearly enough to power two average homes ... [ +++ ]
Created on Monday, 15 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: renewable energy, clean energy, FERC, solar power, solar energy, wind power, wind energy
April 15 -- Renewables are leading again. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects has just released a report for the first three months of 2013. The report is called the ... [ +++ ]
Created on Friday, 12 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: SEIA, solar energy, record generation, solar power, utilities, renewable energy
April 12 -- Now, for the first time, solar energy accounted for all new utility electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. grid in March, the Solar Energy Industries Association is announcing. >>View ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: NREL, finance, solar power, solar PV, renewable energy, investment
April 10 -- NREL has launched an initiative to build an open-source database from solar facilities across the country, giving the private market tools to develop investment vehicles to tap low-cost public ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 03 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: school solar, solar power, RE schools, solar PV, RE benefits, renewable energy
April 3 -- Solar will save $3.5 million over the next 25 years for Dublin High School in Dublin, Georgia; $5.3 million over the next 20 years for Barstow school district in Barstow, California; alongside ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 03 April 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Southern California Edison, solar power, state policy, solar PV, utility renewables
April 3 -- Southern California Edison’s recent decision to cancel a 10-megawatt solar project at College of the Desert’s west valley campus is part of the utility’s ongoing efforts to backpedal on a state-mandated ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Mosaic, solar funding, crowd funding, solar power, solar PV
March 27 -- Oakland-based Mosaic figured out that pricy solar panels are much more affordable when the crowd chips in. >>View Article [ +++ ]
Created on Friday, 22 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Apple Inc., data center power, renewable energy, fuel cells, PV, solar panels, solar power, distributed generation
March 22 -- Apple Inc now runs its largest U.S. data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 20 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: solar energy, solar power, New Jersey, record solar, renewable energy
March 20 -- The more than 20,300 solar projects installed statewide with the help of subsidy credits include residences, businesses and government facilities, along with landfills and brownfields, according ... [ +++ ]
Created on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Solar Power, Arizona, Arizona Corporation Comission
March 5 -- Is there such a thing as too much solar power? Are too many individuals and businesses putting solar panels on their roofs? Is it time to call a halt to the burgeoning solar energy industry, ... [ +++ ]
Created on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Honda, solar panels, home solar, solar power, renewable energy
February 20 -- Automakers have long resorted to incentives like zero-percent financing, rewards points and rebates to inspire customer loyalty. Now Honda is offering a different deal: inexpensive home ... [ +++ ]
Created on Friday, 15 February 2013 / Industry News
Tags: Texas, Austin, San Antonio, solar power, solar energy, state policy, clean energy
February 15 -- San Antonio and Austin are using their municipal power companies to push solar electricity generation, and other Texas cities should support state policies boosting solar power, Austin-based ... [ +++ ]
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