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The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low ri...
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Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy competitive enough to invest in despite vanishing f...
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Gitika Chanchlani, GlobalData
February 1, 2012
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Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) is an upcoming renewable market that promises to provide cost-effective power generation at high levels of efficiency. The performance of a CPV system is dependant on the direct normal irradiance (DNI). Because of this major performance parameter,...
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In recent years, run-of-the-river hydropower projects have emerged as a viable, low-impact alternative to existing large-scale projects. Run-of-the-river facilities use conventional hydropower technology to produce electricity by diverting river flow through turbines that spin g...
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Solar players on both sides of the Pacific have been warily anticipating the Feb. 13 deadline when the Department of Commerce was set to announce whether it would impose duties on solar cells and modules coming in from China.
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Jamie Novak, Applied Nanotech, Inc.
January 27, 2012
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One dollar per watt: that's the mark the solar industry is hoping to hit in order to become cost-competitive with conventional energies. In a bid to reach this magic number in the next two years, various Asian manufacturers are striving to reduce costs by increasing volume produc...
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Charles W. Thurston, Contributor
January 26, 2012
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The U.S. geothermal power industry is poised for a bit more rapid growth now that the U.S. Department of Energy's geothermal development program is maturing with demonstration-stage pilots. This acceleration of growth also will be spurred on by an increasing number of municipalit...
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Marsha W. Johnston, Contributor
January 25, 2012
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Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility's control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in earl...
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Russell Ray, Contributing Editor, Hydro Review
January 24, 2012
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Kevin Frank was named chief executive officer and president of Voith Hydro Inc. in November 2010. Frank discusses technology, policy and the factors driving the hydropower market.
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So far, the complaint by American wind tower manufacturers against their competition from Asia has mirrored the solar industry petition filed in October.
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The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low ri...
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SolarTech Solar Leadership Summit
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27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (27th EU PVSEC)
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Helical Piles, an Efficient Foundation Alternative for Ground-Mounted Projects
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Women of Wind Energy's Mentoring Program Launch Party
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Corporate Solar Power Strategies: How Leaders are Moving from Experimentation to Scale
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FREE Webinar: Introduction to PV*SOL Pro/Expert
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Understanding Green Energy
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January 31, 2012
"Green Energy" is a hot topic these days even though it is not a very easy thing to define. Everyone thinks they understand what it means, but the term really means different things to different peop...
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Smart SMP Pyranometers
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January 30, 2012
Smart is what we call our new range of pyranometers. Kipp & Zonen recently revealed the next generation of solar radiation measurement, the SMP3 and SMP11. The SMP series of smart pyranometers are int...
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Ground Mount Solar
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January 16, 2012
Our ground mount solar PV mounting systems are designed and engineered for each customer's site specific conditions to minimize the field installation labor and require no field welding, drilling or o...
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Solar Power Conversion
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KACO blueplanet 00xi series
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FixZ-7™ Roof Top Mounting System
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January 3, 2012
The FixZ-7 is designed for flat trapezoidal sheet metal roofs (less than 10 degree slope). Such roofs are typically ill-equipped to support traditional solar systems. The FixZ-7 is designed to distrib...
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Park@Sol™ Carport System
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January 3, 2012
Parking lots are an ideal location for PV systems, allowing power production along with shading of vehicles. The Park@Sol solar carport system is designed to fit specific application requirements for ...
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PVMax™ Gound Mount System
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January 3, 2012
Using cast-in-place concrete block foundations, PVMax is a robust ground mount system that installs quickly on challenging terrains – like landfills – while keeping costs low.
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Alugrid™ Roof Top Mounting System
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January 3, 2012
AluGrid allows for PV modules to be mounted on flat roofs where the concentration of panels is important and where reduction of loading on the roof is required.
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Rittal Corporation optimizes server enclosure line
"We've reviewed the most important features required of enclosures in today's high-density IT environments and begun incorporating them into our standard product line for 2012 and beyond," explains To...
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Middlebury College adds solar trackers to its energy mix
This spring a solar energy system will join Middlebury College's biomass plant and wind turbine on campus.
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International rowing leader Concept2 adds AllSun solar trackers
Concept2, a world leader in rowing machines and racing oars, knows a little something about energy.
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SOLAR INDUSTRY ANNOUNCES AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN UTILITY SCALE SOLAR POWER GENERATION 2012
– Solar Power Generation USA (www.solarpowergenerationusa.com), the industry's leading utility-scale solar power conference, today announced the winners of its Solar Power Generation Awards
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Fast Tracking Commercial Offshore Wind Power in the US
Echoing President Obama's State of the Union call for additional clean energy development, the US DOI and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken a major step towards commercial-scale offsh...
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The offshore wind industry elite meet in London to address critical supply chain matters
Keen always to address the most high-priority industry matters, Wind Energy Update is pleased to announce that its 2nd Annual Offshore Wind Supply Chain Conference, taking place in London this Februar...
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Live Webinar: FICO 560+ Home Improvement Financing
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NLP Solar Sales Training Live Webinar February 8th & 9th
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AREDAY 2012: Renewable Energy Access for All
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February 2, 2012
AREDAY 2012 (American Renewable Energy Day), the premier Summit for renewable energy and climate change solutions, has announced dates for the 9th annual event August 18-21 in Aspen, CO http://areday...
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Be Part of a National Workforce Conference in 2012
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Sol 10 Featured in Clean Energy Authority
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February 3, 2012
Clean Energy Authority recently published an article on Sol 10, our new 10-year fixed price SREC pricing agreement in Massachusetts. Long-term contracts in MA have been hard to find, an...
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Experts Predict End of Month for Ontario FIT Review Update
By late February the renewable energy industry should have direction from the Ontario government on some of the major changes ahead for the province’s landmark feed-in tariff program. “I a...
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The Interconnection Landscape Changes Yet Again: FERC Conditionally Accepts the California ISO's Interconnection Queue Reform Phase 2
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February 2, 2012
On January 31, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) conditionally accepted additional reforms to the California ISO’s Generator Interconnection Procedures (GIP) that significa...
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New DOE Resource Assessments Nudge Wave and Tidal Energy Forward
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February 2, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) recently released two new nationwide resource assessments for wave and tidal energy projects in the U.S. The reports, funded by the DOE and prep...
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Town Hall Forum at SolarTech Solar Leadership Summit March 7th & 8th
Dear valued Members, Partners, and Industry Colleagues -
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Weighing Both Sides of the China-U.S. Solar Panel Manufacturers Trade Dispute
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by Sol Systems LLC
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February 1, 2012
In recent years, the price for solar PV panels has plummeted, falling 30% in 2011 alone. The drop in prices can be attributed in part to cheap, imported panels produced by Chinese manufacturers w...
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To Get Funding, Prove Your Geothermal Solution is Viable
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January 31, 2012
In its recent report entitled, “Geothermal Energy: International Market Update” the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) stated that “both the number of countries producing geothermal...
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Evaluating Institutional On-site Clean Energy
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January 31, 2012
Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, uni...
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Atlantic Canada's First Electric Car
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January 31, 2012
Anyone reasonably familiar with sustainability and the environmentalist movement is probably familiar with the concept of the electric car. The EV has been touted as the solution for reducing green ...
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Psst! Solar Fred Marketing Tip: Film Your Solar Projects in Time Lapse
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January 27, 2012
I have no idea why people love time-lapse videos. Our eyes are certainly attracted to things that move quickly, and for some reason it’s fun to see people in hardhats and machines building a s...
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NewScientist’s January 28 issue is likely to unsettle clean energy advocates — but it is worth the read.
The cover article, “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever,” ...
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It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and perfor...
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In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers' wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchas...
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Photovoltaics World Magazine
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Denise Rael, FlexTech AllianceRael
February 3, 2012
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Flexible photovoltaics (PV) have the potential to reduce the cost per Watt of solar energy and improve lifetime performance of solar modules.
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Miasolé says it has created a 17.3 percent "champion" thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, results obtained in its own labs and not (yet) independently ver...
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Today the Obama administration moved forward with plans to develop the enormous offshore wind energy resources along the Mid-Atlantic coast, using a "Smart for the Start" approach designed to expedite...
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By late February the renewable energy industry should have direction from the Ontario government on some of the major changes ahead for the province’s landmark feed-in tariff program. “I a...
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You may have heard it before, but it is worth mentioning again: In residential communities, solar is contagious. But a recent study, "Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels," condu...
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Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind techn...
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