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People of the 10th anniversary Top Solar Contractors list: Mark Hagerty, Michigan Solar Solutions

Solar Power World

How’d you get started in solar? In about 2003 I started investing in solar, wind and fuel cell… The post People of the 10th anniversary Top Solar Contractors list: Mark Hagerty, Michigan Solar Solutions appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Is Wave Energy Ready to Climb Out of the ‘Valley of Death’?

GreenTechMedia

In August, Ocean Power Technologies of New Jersey trumpeted more than one and a half years of continuous operation for one of its PB3 PowerBuoy wave energy converters, powering underwater vehicles for Italian oil firm Eni in the Adriatic Sea. Ocean Power Technologies' PowerBuoy technology has undergone testing since 1997.

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Report: Renewables are Suffering from Broken US Transmission Policy

GreenTechMedia

transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power. electricity system may be stymied by a lack of transmission to carry wind and solar power from where it’s most cheaply generated to where it’s needed. Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, has a simple explanation for why U.S.

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Xlinks Revives Desertec’s Dream, With a Few Twists

GreenTechMedia

As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets. led renewable energy developer Nur Energie to propose investing in Saharan concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity instead.

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Clean Hydrogen From Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address. Since then, billions of dollars have been invested in an attempt to realize this vision. Depending on the process, blue hydrogen can be produced from fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from nuclear power. Hydrogen’s appeal is obvious.

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July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun…

Clean Energy Trust

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. Building neat things is hard?—?Tesla