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Saudi Arabia Getting 41GW of Solar?
Saudi Arabia’s energy advisor is recommending the country diversity its energy mix by adding 41 gigawatts (GW) of solar, 17 GW of nuclear, 4 GW of geothermal and waste-to-energy capacity over the next 20 years, reports Reuters. Electricity consumption is rising rapidly because of its growing population and subsidies. It’s now supplying electricity from crude [...]
Grisham City Hall Installs Solar Trees
A couple of new trees, which may not provide shade, are being installed at the Gresham City hall. We are not referring to the real trees, but the two new solar trees that are specially designed by Spotlight Solar, a company with specialization in making sculpture like solar systems with artistic flair not only for [...]
How TERI is Transforming Solar in India
Like many countries around the world, governments tend to be slow getting necessary protocols through. Even if evidence proves a positive good for the health and happiness of a nation, often it just takes a push in the right direction to get the gears in motion. The advancements with solar PV in India are not only a [...]
CSP Technology: Down But Not Out
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has had a tougher time of late than its photovoltaic cousin. But they say you can’t keep a good technology down. That’s reaffirmed by a new Pike Research report: “Concentrated Solar Power.” The report, written by Pike Research Senior Analyst Peter Asmus anticipated that revenue from the CSP market will rise [...]
50 Megawatts of Solar Comes to Bulgaria
Ukraine made headlines earlier this week after announcing a new wind project, now another former Eastern Bloc country is making its own renewable energy headlines: Bulgaria. Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) just signed a series of deals that would supply 20 MW worth of modules for solar power plant installations all over the Bulgarian countryside. One [...]
Big Banks Doing Some Big Financing for Renewable Energy
Burning coal to make electricity is the largest source of carbon emissons in the US and we’re the 2nd largest coal producer in the world. In the latest edition of “Dirty Money,” which rates the largest US banks on financing coal generation (mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired power generation), almost all get D’s, and no bank gets better than [...]
New Jersey Warehouse Unveils Massive Rooftop Solar Project
This New Jersey solar project is the largest rooftop solar range in the country and prides on a huge twenty five acres of nine MW solar panels on its rooftop. Solar power had been hit hard by the economic recession and the growing supply of cheap natural gas, but once the Holt family, who owns [...]
Small Solar: Back in Favor
We have long been supporters of small solar rather than big utility-scale plants that cover thousands of acres. As federal subsidies in Europe and the US contract, lenders are wary of risks, panel prices are falling further, and utilities are less interested because of low natural gas prices, small solar projects between 1-20 megawatts (MW) are [...]
India Opens World’s Largest Solar Park
We had always wondered why Southeast Asia and Africa were so far behind on solar technology considering how most of the region is far more suitable for tapping the sun’s endless riches, when compared to Europe and North America. Part of the problem is the economic constraints that come attached while lack of political will [...]