The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Vote Solar Initiative (Vote Solar) today released the annual Solar Means Business report identifying major commercial solar projects and ranking America
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Case-studies prove off-grid renewables adaptability to developing and emerging countries
The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), the only international business association focused on the promotion of off-grid renewable energy solutions for rural electrification in developing countries, has published today its most recent edition of
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Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Results
NREL developed and applied a systematic approach to review literature on life cycle assessments of concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. NREL developed and applied a systematic approach to review literature on life cycle assessments of concentrating solar power (CSP) systems, identify primary sources of variability between these assessments, and, where possible, reduce variability in greenhouse … Continue reading Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Results
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Crystalline Silicon and Thin Film Photovoltaic Results
professional essay Over the last 30 years, hundreds of life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been conducted and published for a variety of residential and utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems with wide-ranging results. The inconsistencies in these results can be attributed to the technologies evaluated
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Europe on track to meet renewable energy goals
European Union Member States are showing mixed progress towards three climate and energy targets for 2020, even though the EU as a whole could reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 21% in 2020 with the set of national measures already adopted. These findings come from new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessments. writing services The European Environmental … Continue reading Europe on track to meet renewable energy goals
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Google invests $103M in solar power plant
Google is the part owner in several clean power projects that sells electricity to utilities in California. Today Google has announced that they have agreed to invest $103 million in a solar power plant in California that sends electricity to the San Diego Gas & Electric utility when it is completed in 2014. This project … Continue reading Google invests $103M in solar power plant
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Molten Salt receiving tubes to Archimede ISCC Plant in Sicily
Molten salts are considered as the preferred HTF to enable the necessary technology leap that the CSP industry is expecting. Archimede Solar Energy (ASE), Massa Martana (Perugia), Italy, has supplied the 4th release of Molten Salt receiving tubes to Archimede ISCC Plant in Sicily, the world
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Solar Power in Pakistan
In 1931, the year he died, Thomas Edison told his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” It’s time we took Edison’s words to … Continue reading Solar Power in Pakistan
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Abengoa
Solana is the first concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the U.S. with a thermal energy storage system that is able to generate electricity for six hours. Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has announced that Solana, the world
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Large-scale solar power projects in the United States have made great progress in delivering competitively priced electricity
The price at which electricity from large-scale solar power projects in the western United States is being sold has fallen by more than two-thirds in the last five years, according to a new report released today by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The report
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Saudi Arabia to Start Solar-Powered Desalination in 2014
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) last week announced plans to start producing desalinated water using solar energy in 2014. “The company will start producing 30,000 cubic meters daily using solar power next year,” said Abdallah ben Abdel-Aziz al Sheikh, deputy head of SWCC. “Solar power technologies will be deployed in new desalination plants … Continue reading Saudi Arabia to Start Solar-Powered Desalination in 2014
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Introduction to Solar Energy
Many believe that solar energy is a late twentieth-century phenomenon. Let It Shine: The 6000 Year-Story of Solar Energy will change this misconception. Let It Shine shows, for example, that six thousand years ago the stone-age Chinese built their homes so every one of them made maximum use of the sun
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German solar PV, wind energy peak at 59.1% of electricity production on October 3rd, 2013
German solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy peaked at 59.1% of the nation’s hourly electricity production slightly before 12:00 PM on October 3rd, 2013, according to an analysis by renewable energy consultant Bernard Chabot. This was the result of healthy PV output on a particularly windy day, combined with reduced electricity use on a German … Continue reading German solar PV, wind energy peak at 59.1% of electricity production on October 3rd, 2013
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Cost of photovoltaic has dropped 99% since 1977
The price of solar photovoltaic cells has dropped 99% in the past quarter century. So in an increasing number of markets around the country, solar is at or very close to grid parity. Consider Colorado. The Denver Business Journal reported last month the results of months-long competitive bidding process: Xcel Energy Inc. is proposing to … Continue reading Cost of photovoltaic has dropped 99% since 1977
Continue readingEgypt to receive bids for construction of first solar power plant
According to a report released by the Ministry of Electricity, the project is part of the Ministry’s five-year (2012-2017) solar energy plan. The plan will seek to increase Egypt’s energy production by 3,500 megawatts, 2,800 of which will be produced using concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, with the remaining 700 megawatts produced via photovoltaic … Continue reading Egypt to receive bids for construction of first solar power plant
Continue reading100 MW solar power project in Punjab
Secretary Energy Usman Bajwa on behalf of the Punjab government and Marcus Heel on behalf of Pan Africa signed the MoU under which British company will set up a project of 100MW in Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park, Bahawalpur. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Punjab government and British company Pan Africa at a ceremony, … Continue reading 100 MW solar power project in Punjab
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Thermochemical energy storage for concentrated solar power plants (TCSPOWER)
With EU funding of the project 'Thermochemical energy storage for concentrated solar power plants' (TCSPOWER), scientists are developing ways to store the Sun's thermal energy for electricity production during the night. Concentrated solar power (CSP) is particularly well suited to accommodating intermittent demand as it can be combined with large-scale thermal energy storage. Although simple … Continue reading Thermochemical energy storage for concentrated solar power plants (TCSPOWER)
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New Arizona Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant Keeps Producing Electricity After Sun Goes Down
Unlike other solar-powered electrical plants, the new Solana Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) keeps the sun's energy working after dark to produce electricity for APS customers across Arizona. Unlike other solar-powered electrical plants, the new Solana Generating Station keeps the sun's energy working after dark to produce electricity for APS customers across Arizona. The three-square-mile facility … Continue reading New Arizona Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant Keeps Producing Electricity After Sun Goes Down
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Concentrating Solar Power Gemasolar celebrates its second anniversary with an excellent operational record
Gemasolar is the first concentrated solar power (CSP) plant to use central tower receiver and heliostat field technology in combination with a molten salt thermal storage system. Gemasolar, the solar thermal plant owned by Torresol Energy, will complete on October 4 October its second year in operation since its official opening. During this time, the … Continue reading Concentrating Solar Power Gemasolar celebrates its second anniversary with an excellent operational record
Continue readingThird Quarter Solar Photovoltaic Installations Reach Record High of 9 Gigawatts
During the third quarter of 2013 (Q3’13), end-market demand from the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry reached a new Q3 record of 9 GW. This record demand represents an increase of 6% compared to last quarter (Q2’13) and is almost 20% more than the same quarter last year (Q3’12), according to findings in the latest … Continue reading Third Quarter Solar Photovoltaic Installations Reach Record High of 9 Gigawatts
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