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In Focus: Floating Solar Panels
Japan is one of the few bright lights for the solar industry this year, with its new aggressive feed-in law. With developers rushing in, there’s room for innovation rather than the scrimping we’re seeing elsewhere. One of the more interesting concepts are floating solar plants. A domestic home developer, West Holdings, plans to build 10 floating solar [...]
Denmark Reaches 2020 Solar Goal Ahead of Schedule
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the country is adapting solar technology at a much quicker rate than anticipated. This year, interest in solar technology has soared: “the solar cell capacity will be a hundred times bigger this year compared with 2010.” Every month, another 36 MW of solar capacity is added to the grid [...]
Sun Boxes Hit the Big Screen
Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks are amazing! If you remember – in June – we posted about the awesome Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks. Well good news for those of you who want more. Installation artist Craig Colorusso has finished his film featuring Sun Boxes, Cubemusic, and MB 89. The film will be premiering at The Camden International [...]
Solar Maps Out Power in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City joins the ranks of other cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, LosAngeles County, Anaheim and Portland which have solar maps. The Solar Salt Lake Project, an innovative partnership among Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UtahClean Energy and other partners; as well as through work with CH2M HILLand funded by the [...]
America’s Largest Rooftop Solar Installation Comes to Salt Lake City
For the moment, this is as flashy as it gets. Salt Palace ConventionCenter in Salt Lake City, Utah will be home to a 2.6 megawatt solarsystem. This massive set of panels will produce 25 percent of the largebuilding’s electricity needs. Bella Energy is performing theinstallation, and NexGen energy is funding it. A rooftop solar energy [...]