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Bowdoin College Awarded Grant for Solar Hot Water System
Bowdoin College, the nationally known liberal arts college inBrunswick, Maine, several weeks ago received a $50,000 grant from thestate’s Public Utilities Commission to install a solar hot water system. Bowdoin’s goal is to use the system to offset emissions from itssteam-to-water heat exchanger system, which uses natural gas to run theschool’s dining hall. The solar hot [...]
Utilities Get Grant for Solar Research
Two prominent utility companies are teaming up to research ways tobenefit consumers and the environment by producing more efficient photovoltaic panels than ever. Anannouncement from Hawaiian Electric Company in Honolulu says that itwill work with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Californiato make photovoltaic panels more productive and efficient while keepingthem reliable enough to serve [...]
NREL Using $2.79 Million Grant To Study Solar Grid Integration
TheCalifornia Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has awardedapproximately $2.79 million in California Solar Initiative Research,Development, Deployment and Demonstration program grants to theDepartment of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tohelp the state stimulate solar energy research and build a sustainablesolar market. The grants awarded to NREL are part of thecommission’s first solicitation for projects that focus [...]
Mustang Solar Receives Thin-Film PV Research Grant
Mustang Solar, a Sarasota, Fla.-based subsidiary of Mustang Vacuum Systems, has been awarded $2 million from the Renewable Energy and Energy-Efficient Technologies Grant Program of the Florida Energy & Climate Commission. Thegrant will be used to supplement Mustang Solar’s further development oftheir advanced PV deposition technologies, aimed at transitioninghigh-efficiency solar cell lab processes to industrial [...]
Ferro Awarded $1 Million Grant for Solar Cell Research
Ferro Electronic Materials, a leading supplier of materials forfabricating photovoltaic solar cells, has been awarded $1 million bythe Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) to develop advanceddurability sealing systems for solar cells. In this project,Ferro will engineer a vitreous frit system to provide reliableair-tight and water-tight seals for second- and third-generationthin-film solar cells. Ferro will collaborate [...]
Astralux wins GEO NEED Grant for Alamosa Farm Solar Project
Gov. Bill Ritter announced the award of 14 New Energy EconomicDevelopment (NEED) grants to recipients across Colorado for renewableenergy and energy efficiency projects that will help create and retainjobs, strengthen local economies, and save money and energy. TheColorado Governor’s Energy Office created the grants from fundsavailable from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Astralux [...]
Solar Industry Lobbies For Manufacturing Tax Credit, Cash Grant
SeveralU.S. Senators have introduced a bill to provide a tax incentive tosolar energy equipment manufacturers in a bid to create new jobs. The Solar Manufacturing Jobs Creation Act, introduced by Sens.Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., would givemanufacturers access to a cash grant program created by the stimuluspackage this year to help finance solar [...]
Winners In DOE’s $3.4B Smart Grid Grant Program
The Department of Energy on Tuesday named 100 smart grid projects as winners of $3.4 billion in stimulus grants – and it looks like the smart meter industry is going to be happy. That’s because a lot of that money is going to deploy two-way communicating electricity meters to customers, according to the list of [...]
Sacramento Lands Federal Solar Energy Grant
As observers are pointing out,to date, only a fraction of the federal stimulus funds have been doledout. A full two-thirds of the $787 billion promised by Washington isstill left to be disbursed in 2010. The lag is even more pronouncedwhen it comes to government investment in clean energy development: asBloomberg reports,the U.S., China and other [...]