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CPV Startup REhnu Grabs SunShot Grant
REhnu, a solar company that spun out of the University of Arizonaoptics department, was awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help bring its technology to market. REhnu received one of 10 SunShot Incubator awards and was the only company working in the high-concentration photovoltaics realm, according to a release [...]
Natcore Teams with NREL on Black Silicon
The US Department of Energy has pledged $150,000 to fund a partnership between Natcore Technologies and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to commercialize NREL’s black silicon. Natcore, which recently moved into a lab at the Kodak facility in Rochester, N.Y., uses a patented liquid phase deposition to build solar cells and will combine that technology [...]
Clean Power Research Grabs $850K Grant
Research will soon be conducted by Clean Power Research, which develops analytic tools for the renewable energy industry, in order to determine how much cloud cover affects the performance of large solar-power arrays. Clean Power Research will conduct the research thanks to an $852,260 grant from the California Public Utilities Commission to develop new simulations [...]
Senate Passes Extension of Tax Grant Program
The U.S. Senate passed of a one-year extension of the Department ofTreasury Section 1603 tax grant program in their tax bill compromise. Senators Cantwell, Feinstein, Ensign and LeMieux led the effort toextend the grant program which has to a large extent helped drive thegrowth of solar in the U.S. in the last year. The United States [...]
Renewable Energy Grant Likely to Be Extended
The word out of Washington late this week was that senators and theObama Administration have agreed on a plan to extend the U.S. TreasuryDepartment’s Treasury Grant Program for another year. As it stands, the program gives a 30 percent cash rebate tocommercial developers of renewable energy systems. The program wasinitially a 30 percent tax credit [...]
Property Owners Race to Cash in on Commercial Solar Grant
In 2009, the United States federal government converted a 30 percenttax credit for business owners who power their property with solarenergy into a 30 percent treasury grant. What’s the difference? Theproperty owners receive a check reimbursing them for 30 percent of theproject’s cost within 60 days of completing the installation rather than waiting to use [...]
Solar Industry Wants Congress to Extend Cash Grant Program
The cash grant program for renewable energy projects is due to expire at the end of this year, unless Congress chooses to extend the stimulusfunding during its lame duck session. The U.S. Treasury’s "Section 1603" Renewable Energy Grant Program allows project developers to collect cash up front for 30% of capital costs,rather than waiting to [...]
Solar Industry Pulls for Extension of Federal Solar Energy Grant
Leaders of the U.S. solar industry will have one last shot at convincing the current Congress to extend a key federal solarincentive before a new Republican-controlled congress takes over at thebeginning of 2011. Most indications are that the solar grant option —which has for the past two years provided cash grants worth 30 percent of commercial [...]
Connecticut Reopens its Renewable Energy Grant Program
Connecticut has been on fire with renewable energy incentives. With the introduction of a more generous solar thermal program and a commercial solar PV program for projects over 50 kW AC, the news just keeps getting better andbetter. Yesterday, the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) announcedthe reopening of the On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation (OSDG)program. OSDG [...]