First Solar will build a 250-megawatt solar power plant in the California desert, while work begins on Canada’s largest PV project ever.
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Renewable Energy Patents Are Surging
Solar and wind energy technologies see fivefold increases in annual patents, but researchers say policy support will be needed to keep the ball rolling.
Renewablue Blazes A Clean Energy Trail In CO Real Estate
EarthTechling interviewed founder James Welch Mitchell to learn how Renewablue is helping Coloradans embrace clean energy technologies for less.
Nighttime Solar Power Arriving In United States
Sundown won’t mean the end of power production at the big Solana Generating Station in Arizona, in a testing phase now and about to go into commercial operation.
Shutdown’s Clean Energy Impact Small – For Now
The federal government shutdown’s impact on renewable energy figures to be minor, at most, unless it drags on for several weeks.
Giant Solar Tower In California Powers Up
Developers of the Ivanpah power tower project say the plant “produced its first output of energy when the Unit 1 station was synced to the power grid for the first time.”
Big Solar Is Having A Banner Year In US
As of the end of August, new U.S. utility-scale solar capacity for 2013 stood at 1,774 megawatts – already surpassing the 1,476 megawatts installed in all of 2012.
Connecticut Green Energy Buy Comes Cheap
A competitive process to offer clean energy to Connecticut yields wind and solar at an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt-hour.
China Solar Edge: Scale, Supply Chain, Not Cheap Labor
Scale and supply-chain advantages are the keys to cheap solar manufacturing in China, a new NREL/MIT study asserts.
Finance Firm Sees Wind, Solar Cost Plunge
An analysis by financial advisory firm Lazard finds that cost of energy from wind power has dropped faster than expected, by 50 percent in the past four years.
Regenerative Energy Car Tech Spreads To Suspension Systems
Regenerative braking to return energy to a vehicle’s battery is being joined by a new form of recovery technology based in a car’s suspension system.
Army’s Big Renewables Buy Turns To Solar
Solar energy becomes the second of four technologies being awarded under the $7 billion Renewable and Alternative Energy Power Production for DoD Installations MATOC.
Geothermal, Solar Put Oregon Tech On All-Renewables Course
With geothermal and solar power projects on course, Oregon Institute of Technology could soon be heated and powered completely by renewable energy.
Obama’s Solar SunShot Could Deliver Big Time
The U.S. program to reduce the price of solar could put emissions reductions and cheaper electricity within reach by 2050, according to new research.