The Obama administration just announced a handout of $2 billion to build solar panels. The development of this type of energy is politically sexy. Jobs are created to build and maintain the panels, which scream eco-friendly every time they appear on camera.
No one is criticizing the initiative, but it overlooks a power source boasting far [...]
A lot of focus in North Dakota lately has been on traditional energy with the discovery of the Bakken and Three Forks formations.
But, a summit at Bismarck State College today is reminding people that our state also has a lot of renewable energy potential.
Speakers at the renewable energy summit say the country needs [...]
“Graetzel cells” could advance the renewable energy revolution
Scientist and professor of photonics and interfaces at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Michael Graetzel, won the Millennium Technology Prize of $1.07 million for his dye-sensitized solar cells, also known as “Graetzel cells.”
These new dye-sensitized solar cells are low in cost, and can work on a broad scale. Graetzel cells [...]
Nevada is serious about going solar.
The state already has more solar energy per capita than any other, but with its small population that hasn’t meant much to solar developers and manufacturers.
Enter the state Office of Energy.
It announced this evening plans to contract with solar photovoltaic installers and developers in the state to build solar installations [...]
Ohio House and Senate agree on new tax policy for power projects.
COLUMBUS — Negotiators for the Ohio House and Senate on Thursday, June 3, appeared to reach agreement on tax breaks aimed at bringing “green energy” projects to Ohio as the legislature worked to finish up and recess for the summer.
Also, the House approved a [...]
Jason Ross makes his living installing solar power panels on homes and businesses. His Brookfield-based company, Ross Solar Group, has work lined up for the immediate future.
But Ross said the state’s Clean Energy Fund has only about $1.5 million to offer homeowners as incentives to add solar panels to their homes.
“That will pay for 20 or 30 [...]
Construction is ongoing at the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Indiantown recently.
INDIANTOWN — Florida Power & Light Co.’s newest solar-energy plant will have enough mirrors to cover 80 football fields. But those mirrors will focus sunlight onto surfaces that add up to slightly less than the area of a single football field.
That [...]
SunEdison, a Beltsville firm that develops solar energy plants around the world, is teaming with one of the industry’s largest private-equity companies in a joint venture that could generate up to $1.5 billion in new projects.
The deal with First Reserve comes as the price of manufacturing photovoltaic cells has dropped sharply in the past 18 [...]
Photovoltaic solar panels, solar thermal panels and solar shingles stole the show in displays all across the Green Festival. The human rights organization Global Exchange and Green America, a national environmental group respectively, jointly sponsored the show. .
But how does sustainable energy really work for a home, how much does it cost and is it really practical for [...]
President Obama visits a solar cell factory in California on Wednesday, touting a federal loan guarantee that is helping the company to add jobs.
The visit is part of a broader push by the White House to promote alternative forms of energy. But in the wake of the massive Gulf oil spill, some observers say Obama [...]
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