Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The combined energy produced is enough to power over 1.6 As we face the challenges of climate change and a growing global population, sustainable energy sources like solar power play a pivotal role in securing a cleaner, more resilient future,” says Bryan Didier, partner and managing director of renewable energy for Monarch Private Capital.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. , in its CIGS solar technology, a significant increase from the 10.8% standard efficiency measured for production material in 2012. The post Ascent Solar Product Trials Reach 15.2 Percent Cell Production Efficiency appeared first on Solar Industry.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2012, solar roof mount manufacturer QuickBOLT (SolarRoofHook at the time)… The post Manufacturers transition to minimal-flashing solar roof mounts appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 24, 2020

The 2012 hurricane cost New York $41.9 billion in recovery and mitigation expenses, and millions in the Northeast were without power for almost two weeks. When Hurricane Isaias hit earlier this month in the middle of a pandemic, concern was… The post Contractors Corner: SUNation appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

American Indian land comprises approximately 2% of the United States but contains an estimated 5% of the country’s renewable energy resources, according to a 2012 DOE Department of Indian Energy report, “Developing Clean Energy Projects on Tribal Lands.”

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

While attending the 7th Annual Michigan Energy Innovators Gala, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 4465 and 4069 and Senate Bill 47 that will reinstate the property tax exemption for renewable energy systems that was previously in effect from 2002 until 2012.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

Since 2012, there’s been a surge in meal-kit delivery options. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents. Optimize your solar power plant. When you get meal-kits delivered to your home, are they a net benefit to the environment?

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Solar rooftop mount provider QuickBOLT is expanding its presence in both the East Coast and Midwest after introducing a new and improved product at Solar Power International 2019. Over 600,000 QuickBOLTs have been sold in the United States since 2012.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2020

Bologna-based Mario Cucinella Architects has crafted the House of Music, a solar-powered community landmark in the nearby commune of Pieve di Cento that celebrates the town’s long-standing musical tradition. Read the original post: Solar-powered House of Music mimics the shape of an orchestra.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. EIA’s numbers also break records for both wind and solar in terms of annual capacity additions. generation capacity in 2020.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company was founded in 2012, but two years ago EnergyAid began offering solar maintenance and repair services. In the past two years, the company has become a leading provider of solar system services in California.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. But developers have found business cases worth investing in, such as saving clipped solar power , arbitraging wind power and hitting peaks in the energy market.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

Key insights from the study on the current status of selected renewables are as follows: Solar PV : The dramatic decline of solar PV costs in the last decade have been driven down significantly by technology innovation, which has also helped to enhance the performance of products.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The uptick in installations means there are now more than 1,265,000 registered solar power installations across the UK, with about 1.1 Trade body Solar Energy UK estimates the UK now has at least 15GW of solar power capacity in place, two thirds on the ground and the remainder on residential and commercial roofs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

VIDEO: CEO of solar-powered lamp charity joins James Murray for a chat ahead of the upcoming BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

Chile is one of just two countries in the world that is likely to offer opportunities this year for developers of concentrated solar power (CSP) projects that use the sun’s heat to spin turbines that generate electricity, rather than sunlight to generate electrons.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The company has used the stable cash flows from its regulated Florida power utility (70% of revenue) to help finance its investments in renewables (30% of revenue). In the process, NextEra became the largest producer of wind and solar power in the world. NextEra’s dividend is considered as safe as an investment-grade bond.

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Mosaic

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Partnership to deliver solar power at a lower price per watt to homeowners across the U.S. residential solar and energy-efficient home improvement projects, today announced a unique, multiple-year partnership with one of the fastest-growing residential solar power providers in the country, Freedom Forever.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Liz Truss has also given speeches to the ASI.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

But a piece of it lives on with founder John Schaeffer, who left the company in 2013 and bought back control of the Solar Living Center, a lush compound in Mendocino dedicated to teaching sustainable lifestyles, including solar power, permaculture and natural construction techniques. "I

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution. This week, the Fresno-based developer launched a $100 million Agriculture Energy Infrastructure Fund, aimed at combining low-cost solar power-purchase agreements with the backup power of energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

As of 2020, it was responsible for the transmission of that 450 GW of installed wind and solar power. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

lower than consumption in 2019, and was approximately equivalent to 2012 oil consumption levels. Solar capacity increased by 127 gigawatts (GW), while wind capacity grew 111 GW. Together, wind and solar power now have a global capacity of 1,441 GW. Oil still accounts for nearly a third of the world’s energy consumption.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 20, 2021

Baserange was started in 2012 by Blandine Legait and Marie-Louise Mogensen. Another textile mill, in France, relies on 80% solar power to run the factory. For Baserange, its goal to manage a transparent, ethical and environmentally -friendly garment company is supported by a network of similarly-minded factories.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since 2010, wind power has grown from providing under one per cent to providing 10 per cent of electricity in Brazil, and provided 15 per cent of the EU's electricity demand in 2019. But as seen in major emerging economies, as well as in Europe, these new technologies are now actually cutting energy costs.

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TIME Ecocentric

MARCH 5, 2014

You don’t get any brighter than the reflecting mirrors at the just-opened Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, in California‘s Mojave desert. By the end of 2013, there were more than 440,000 operating solar electric systems in the U.S., with more than 12 GW of photovoltaic (PV) and nearly 1 GW of concentrated solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

But the negative impact of aging on wind and solar power plants is being reduced, thanks to maturing technologies and commercial practices. Researchers at Berkeley Lab have taken a new look at how wind and solar generators are performing in the field, leveraging data from the sizable U.S. utility-scale wind and solar fleets.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

We now know, courtesy of the International Energy Agency, that solar power has indeed become the cheapest form of electricity in history for most countries. Between 2012 and 2020, fossil fuel companies have lost £123bn of their value, demonstrating that they are losing their footing as a dominant market force.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

led renewable energy developer Nur Energie to propose investing in Saharan concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity instead. The company’s TuNur project was supposed to start delivering power to the U.K. That didn’t put others off trying to follow suit, though. In 2016, the rising cost of new nuclear in the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

They include the solar hopeful Nanosolar , which like Solyndra was betting on thin-film PV—a technology that barely gets a mention nowadays. The company has since changed hands a couple more times, most recently landing with LS Power for an undisclosed sum.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Completed in August 2018 by David Baker Architects , the solar-powered project has earned LEED Platinum certification and includes 40 flexible live-work lofts — a new housing type for Union City. Spanning an area of nearly 290,000 square feet, The Union Flats is a high-density community with 243 modern, practical rental homes.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Also due this year is the commissioning of the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Chile and Latin America, developed by Cerro Dominador with funding from EIG Global Energy Partners. Cerro Dominador connected its plant to the grid on Jan.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The meters that minigrids use need to be cheap, rugged and reliable, and they must be able to adjust to the often unstable operating conditions of solar-powered standalone grids. Remote minigrids are a tough market for a traditional smart meter vendor. SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.-based

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

billion) in grant funding since 2012. company in 2010, and Australian concentrated solar power (CSP) technology developer Ausra was sold to French energy giant Areva the same year. So far, ARENA has supported 538 projects with AUD $1.58 billion (USD $1.08 Australia’s promising UltraBattery technology was bought by a U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. The second was tremendous growth in the availability of cheap renewables like wind and solar power. Since 2007, consumption of renewable power in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

NREL estimates these voluntary clean power sales have grown from virtually nothing in 2012 to 4.4 Portland General Electric offers both a relatively low-cost option based primarily on wind power and a premium option sourced from local solar power, for example. Utility voluntary procurement.

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