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Latin America’s Largest Solar Plant Being Constructed by SunEdison
SunEdison is constructing a 100MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Chile for the mining and steel group CAP. The plant, which will be located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, will be the largest of its sort in the Latin American region and one of the largest in the world. It will produce as much [...]
Atlantic Wind & Solar Receives Approval on Largest PV Project in South America
West Virginia corporation Atlantic Wind & Solar (OTC: AWSL), with affiliate and co-developer Atlantic Energy Ecuador, reported this morning that they have received formal notice from the National Electricity Council of Ecuador (CONELEC), confirming two initial photovoltaic (PV) projects in the Province of Esmeraldas are to proceed under Ecuador’s feed-in tariff program. The $150 million [...]
WOW: 1% of Land Covered With Solar Could Power The World
Solar PV can meet 100% of electricity demand on just 1% of land by 2050, says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In 2010, they produced a report showing that a combination of energy efficiency and renewable energy can supply the world’s energy by 2050. But how much land would that take to make that huge jump feasible? And how would [...]
Volkswagen’s Passat: Built with Solar
Volkswagen started getting power from the Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park yesterday, the biggest solar system installed by an automaker in the US. The Passat sedan will now be made using solar in the greenest auto manufacturing plant in the world, the only one to earn LEED-Platinum. It is also Tennessee’s biggest solar system. 33,600 solar panels made by [...]
U.S Army Announces Biggest Solar Project Yet
While the US government signed a contract for its biggest wind farm, the US Army dedicated its biggest solar PV project, which is also the world’s largest low concentration photovoltaic solar plant. The 4.1 megawatt solar farm is operating at Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Combined with a 375 kilowatt solar carport, solar will still only supply [...]
Bonnaroo Goes Solar The Crowdfunding Way
There are different ways to crowd-source the funding of a solar or clean energy project. There are emerging peer-to-peer lending platforms like Solar Mosaic which connect investors to solar projects. Unlike Kickstarter, Solar Mosaic seeks to provide a return to its investors. Perhaps more simply, there’s what the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, [...]
New York Announces Big Solar News
Some BIG solar news from New York! Today, in his 2013 State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo made some significant solar proposals. Proposals that will work to fundamentally transform the state’s solar market while broadening access to solar, enabling the industry to scale and reducing the cost.The Governor called for a major expansion of [...]
Heliostat Technology from BrightSource
The Ivanpah Solar project just celebrated installation of the 100,000th heliostat, but what, you may ask, is a heliostat? The word ‘heliostat’ comes from the Greek words helios (sun) and stat (stationary), meaning a device that tracks the sun from a stationary point. In order to harness the energy of the sun, we must first [...]
UPDATE: Ivanpah Project 75% Complete
The 377 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating Station (SEGS) being built by BrightSource for NRG Energy has reached a significant milestone with construction now more than 75 percent complete. Since construction on this (concentrating solar power) CSP—or solar thermal—project got underway earlier this year it’s been going at a breakneck pace. By August, construction reached [...]