Archive for the ‘Utility-scale Solar Power’ Category
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
As Congress begins debate on the Climate Bill, those attending Solar Power International 2009 got an update on solar progress in Washington. The 11:00 am session on issues that affect everyone in the industry was surprisingly under-attended. Perhaps that reflects a dazzling exhibition hall and our perennial frustration with Congress.
John ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Co-authored by David M Adams of Buildings and Energy and Norman Brand, Ph.D., J.D, with support from Marsha Shenk, a pioneer of Business Anthropology
As tens of thousands arrive in Anaheim, California for the Solar International Convention there is lots to talk about: Renewable Portfolio Standards, Feed-in Tariffs, the Stimulus Package, ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
On Sunday, October 11th, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed new legislation that creates a solar Feed-in Tariff paralleling solar policy in the EU. A Feed-in Tariff (FiT) is a premium price paid for renewable energy, in this case solar power. Under the new law, if you build a solar facility ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Will Cap and Trade legislation, often called 'The Climate Bill', effectively enable new renewable energy power plants like wind and solar? Or, will a complex system of pollution permits and permit-trading actually favor upgrades to existing fossil fuel technologies?
Last Friday, GWF Energy LLC, an independent power producer, announced a ten-year ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
On Thursday, September 17, BrightSource formally announced that they are abandoning efforts to build a solar farm on 5,000 acres of public land in the Mohave desert near Ludlow, California. Though the announcement ended months of contentious - and at times, bitter - conflict between a well funded and well ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
In a September 15th NY Time op-ed piece, Thomas Friedman makes that case that innovative solar technology is invented in the US, but only finds manufacturing customers overseas, primarily in China and Germany.
Applied Materials, he writes, is a US company that makes the machinery that produces microchips and another silicon ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Oregon, ranked 27th by population, is ranked 9th in US solar energy according to the Solar Energy Industry Association. At the close of 2008, Oregonians had installed 4.8 MW, a 330% increase over 1.1 MW in 2007. Oregon is 7th overall in cumulative US installations with 7.5 megawatts.
This is due ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
On August 13 of this year, Renewable Ventures (formerly MMA Renewable Ventures) announced a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with NV Energy, Inc. Renewable Ventures will fund, own, and operate a 26-megawatt solar power plant northeast of Las Vegas. The Apex, NV plant is expected to provide 200 new jobs ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
In about 65 days, the US Treasury will begin to issue cash grants to owners of solar power systems of all sizes. The grant is equal to 30% of the project's cost. This includes households, solar developers, businesses, commercial buildings, and utilities. The grant is scalable. On a $34,000 home ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
The Green Wombat today alerted the Twitter world to a San Jose Mercury News post that California's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, opposes two pieces of legislation pending in the California legislature. Together, the two bills would play a significant role in achieving California's climate goals, the Million Solar ...
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