Borrego Solar Systems, Reading Electric Plan 5 MW In Pa.

Borrego Solar Systems Inc., a designer and installer of grid-tied commercial and public-sector solar electric power systems, has formeda partnership with Reading Electric of Reading, Pa., to install morethan 5 MW of solar energy at 32 different local businesses acrosssoutheastern Pennsylvania. The selected sites include AdelphiKitchens & Cabinetry Inc. in Robesonia, Pa.; Heyco Metals Inc. [...]

SEIA Presents 15% By 2020 Plan, Solar Bill Of Rights At #cop15

Leaders representing the U.S. solar energy industry reportedthe potential of solar energy to meet 15% of U.S. energy needs by 2020.The presentation was made at a United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change press briefing in the Bella Center, where the UnitedNations Climate Conference (COP15) is under way. The "ExpandingSolar Energy in the United States" briefing [...]

New Plan to Spread Clean Energy in Developing Countries

Speaking yesterday at the Copenhagen climate conference, Department of Energy head Stephen Chu announceda $350 million plan to promote and deploy clean energy technologies indeveloping countries. Dubbed the Renewables and Efficiency DeploymentInitiative (REDI), the plan is the product of the Major Economies Forum(MEF), a grouping of industrialized countries that represent more than85 percent of global [...]

Massachusetts Readies New Solar Plan For January 2010

With ambitious initiatives such as its Solar Stimulus Programand a target of installing 250 megawatts’ worth of solar-generatingcapacity in the state by 2017, Massachusetts has shown itself to be avanguard in the U.S. push for solar, and the latest news to emerge fromthe Commonwealth further bolsters this reputation: having tapped outits $68 million state solar [...]

India to Announce National Solar Energy Plan

With climate change negotiationsset to begin in Copenhagen on December 7th, some nations are beginningto articulate commitments to renewable energy deployment in lieu ofadopting binding carbon emission reductions. Rapidly developingeconomies, in particular, are opposed to emission reductions as theyfear such caps will slow and limit economic prosperity. And so it goeswith India, which is expected [...]

E.U. Plan to Curb Emissions Favors Solar, But Not Everyone Is Happy

The European Commission released on Wednesday its plan to reduce carbon dioxide levels by directing €50 billion to clean energy research and development over the next ten years, with €16 billion ($23.5 billion) of that money reserved for solar photovoltaic power. The Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Planmay be the latest step in the European Union’s [...]

EU’s New Solar Plan Falls Short Says EPIA

TheEuropean Commission’s new proposal to boost solar technologydevelopment focuses too much on research and not enough on deployingcommercial technologies, said the European Photovoltaic IndustryAssociation (EPIA) Wednesday. The EPIA also voiced concerns that the proposal would not receivesufficient funding and is lobbying for more public money to be setaside to support the solar industry’s growth. The [...]

India Wants Their Ambitious Solar Plan as Long as Others Foot the Bill

The Indian government wants developed nations to provide seriousfinancial and technological support for its plan, which ultimatelycalls for India to have an installed solar capacity of 200 GW by 2040. In order to see the scope of India’s solar plan, one just has to lookat an analysis from the International Energy Agency, which statesglobal solar capacity [...]

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