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Tennessee Solar Brightens Up
The Department of Energy has given the green light for Tennessee to use federal stimulus money for solar power projects.Rather than funding residential solar installations–which we hope willbe the next use of spare energy funds within the state–the $62 millionwill be used for a 5 MW solar power generation plant an hour northeastof Memphis, and [...]
Kyocera Sakura Solar Energy Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Kyocera Corp.’s Sakura Solar Solar Energy Center, located in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is marking25 years in the solar energy business. The center was established inAugust 1984 for research and development of solar power generatingsystems. At the time of the establishment of the Sakura SolarEnergy Center, the use of solar power generating systems was [...]
Southern California Edison Offers Free Solar Info Sessions
Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the administrators of theCalifornia Solar Initiative, is now hosting free 90-minuteinformational sessions for homeowners interested in solar panelinstallations. Each session will last an hour and a half and will coverall the bases of residential solar installations: technology, cost,benefits and incentives. The Los Angeles Times reports the following dates for [...]
Arizona’s El Pueblo Neighborhood Center gets solar
With the El Pueblo Activity Center crowded with kids at noon on ahot summer day, it’s a small wonder the building would be using moresolar energy than at any other time. Now, however, the buildingis also producing electricity through 465 solar panels on the roof,enough to power 14 homes and supply 20% of the activity [...]
LAVA Studio to design the city center of Masdar City
Eco Factor: Sustainable city center for a totally sustainable eco-city in the desert. Australian studio LAVA has won an international competition to design the center of Masdar,a completely sustainable city in the desert. The design will include acentral plaza, five-star hotel, long stay hotel, convention center,entertainment complex and retail facilities. Thewinning design from the company [...]
Nottingham University’s China campus zeroes carbon emissions
NottinghamUniversity’s plan to expand in Ningbo, China, has seen the developmentof a new Center for Sustainable Energy Technologies, which is designedby Mario Cucinella Architects.Just like the work the center is expected to perform, the architecturetoo boasts the use of sustainable sources of energy like photovoltaicenergy, solar thermal energy and wind energy. Theunique design of the [...]
Solar Heats Up In Central Florida
As seen in… (click on the photo to read the story on the Sentinel’s website.) Central Florida’s solar industry growing hotter MaureenMcHale is marketing and public-relations manager and Edgardo Rodriguezis executive vice president with Advanced Solar Photonics in Lake Mary,which plans to ramp up production later this month. (ROBERTO GONZALEZ,ORLANDO SENTINEL / June 19, 2009) [...]
Satcon (SATC) Provides Inverters For Large Rooftop Solar Installation In Orange County
Satcon (SATC), a leading provider of distributed power solutions is announcing today that it has installed four 250 kW PowerGate Plus inverters at the Orange County Convention Centerin Florida for its 1.1 MW rooftop solar installation, the largest inthe southeast United States. The solar installation was designed andbuilt by Johnson Controls (JCI) and is expected [...]