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Glass and Green Building

SolarFeeds — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:50:44 +0000

A look at today’s architecture and design magazines, or at new construction projects in NYC, confirms that the current material of choice is glass. Floor-to-ceiling windows, 360° views, natural daylight, connecting inside to the outside are the design vocabulary du jour. Glass, and lots of it, is intended to convey modernity, sophistication, and, increasingly, green [...]

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How China Will Transform The Energy Industry

SolarFeeds — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:56:46 +0000

When I started in the energy business back in the early 1980’s, the utility paradigm was to continually build more power plants to serve growing customer loads. This lead to environmental and economic difficulties, especially as the cost of completing planned nuclear power plants skyrocketed. At the utility where I worked, Pacific Gas and Electric, [...]

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New Project Will Forecast Solar Generation

SolarFeeds — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:30:03 +0000

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $1.7 million to a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Cool Earth Solar Inc. (CES) to conduct a community-scale renewable energy integration demonstration project at the Livermore Valley Open Campus. The central idea of the project is to use solar forecasting to make photovoltaic power generation more [...]

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In Focus: The Potential of Los Angeles Solar

SolarFeeds — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:59 +0000

Drive the freeways, ride the train from San Diego to Union Station, or fly into LAX and you cannot miss the obvious – Los Angeles has tremendous, untapped potential for solar growth. Now a new report from Michelle Kinman at the Environment California Research & Policy Center, seeks to layout the case for Solar in [...]

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Tesla Reports Profit, Stock SKYROCKETS

SolarFeeds — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:56 +0000

Tesla, the American electric car manufacturer, has been all over the news lately, with its announcement that it has made a quarterly profit for the first time in ten years. In 2011, Tesla reported a loss of $50 million, and in the first quarter of 2012 they were $90 million in the red. However, their [...]

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