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Anti-American Interest Crowd Endangers U.S. Economy, National Security
Last Wednesday’s New York Times had a troublingly familiar article, yet another example of how China, and not the United States,“increasingly dominates the manufacture of clean energytechnologies…including the production of million-dollar wind turbines.”Even worse, according to this article, “The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, makingthe [...]
Native American Renewable Energy Models
Some stories so exuberantly shout out, ‘pay attention to the historyhere!’ that readers don’t need a browbeating interlocutor to insist onsuch a focus. As an election approaches that politically sophisticatedpeople are saying is going to be a comeuppance for ‘liberals,’ I wouldargue that an examination of important elements of the American pastsuggest that other matters [...]
LG Electronics Enters North American Solar Market
LG Electronics Inc. says it has entered the North American commercialsolar market. The company says it plans to expand its global solarbusiness to $2.4 billion by 2015 and to invest $820 million over thenext five years in its solar cell research and manufacturing. "The U.S. is one of the fastest-growing solar markets in the world [...]
How American Homes Use Solar Energy
We’re going back to basics here. Those of us who follow solar oftenget most excited about creative ways to apply the technology– like solar phones to serve rural India. However, understanding the potential for solar within the good oldUnited States means we sometimes need to refresh our memories on how,exactly, those PV systems and thermal [...]
The American Power Act of 2010 (APA)
The American Power Act of 2010 (APA), as released by Senators Kerry and Lieberman on May 12, 2010, regulatesemissions of greenhouse gases through market-based mechanisms,efficiency programs, and other economic incentives. The Energy Information Administration released a summary of the APA’s key provisions, including the following analysis: APA Title I consists of incentives designed to accelerate [...]
Pictures: The American Solar Challenge 2010
Last month, teams of collegestudents raced their solar-powered cars though four states in theMidwest. Students from all over the world designed, built and drove solar-powered cars in the competition. The American Solar Challenge 2010 (ASC2010) took off from Broken Arrow,Oklahoma, on June 20th and ended in the Chicago suburb of Naperville onJune 26, 2010. Last weekend, [...]
ET Solar launches new black module product line in North American markets
ET Solar Group Corp., a Nanjing-based photovoltaic system turnkeysolution provider and integrated manufacturer of PV products, announcedit has received approval and listing from the California EnergyCommission (CEC) for its new line of black frame and black back sheetcrystalline solar modules for the North American markets, including both US and Canada. The product line includes both [...]
2010 American Solar Challenge Underway
The 2010 AmericanSolar Challenge (ASC2010) is officially underway! On Saturday, solar-powered vehicles took off at noon from BrokenArrow, Oklahoma, en route to the Chicago suburb of Naperville. ASC is acompetition where students design, build and drive solar-poweredvehicles in a rally event. This year’s event marks the 20th anniversaryof the ASC. In an effort to promote [...]
Intertek doubles its North American solar PV testing capacity
Intertek, a leader in testing, inspection and certification services,announced that the company has doubled the photovoltaic (PV) testingcapacity in their Lake Forest, CA lab. The expansion is inresponse to growing demand for PV products and the company’s dedicationto providing the industry’s fastest project turnaround. The state of the art testing laboratory is equipped with solar [...]