Tag Archives: states
Study: US Solar Power up 63% in ‘08
If anyone still doubts that solar is the power of the future (otherthan oil barons, coal kings and the jokers in Congress), a new reportfrom the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) might do the trick. In the 17-page study released this week,author Larry Sherwood has assembled an impressive collection of dataproving that (as Sherwood writes), [...]
Chip Companies using Acquisitions to Enter Solar Market
Acquisition – not developing technology in-house – is the beststrategy for entering the solar market, according to a survey ofsemiconductor companies. The survey, conducted by Greentech Media and the PV Group (part ofSEMI), sought to gauge the views of chip and solar companies on settingup manufacturing in the United States. Most of the 106 respondents saidthey [...]
Solar Power and State Renewables Standards
A number of U.S. states require electricity providers to derive aminimum percentage of their power from renewable sources by a certaindate. Such a requirement is often referred to a renewable portfoliostandard, or RPS. Currently, 24 states, plus the District of Columbiahave formalized RPSs in place, while five other states have legislatedmore informal goals aimed at [...]
G8 Summit support for clean energy economies
G8 Summit leaders in L’Aquila, Italy (news.sky.com). TheU.S. is ranked seventh in the G8 Climate Scorecard, for governments ofeight nations of the northern hemisphere including: Canada, France,Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom, in a recentlyreleased studyby the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and global insurance company AllianzSE. This rating for the U.S. was a [...]
Solar Fred Insights: All Solar is Local
Today,someone from Gambia visited my site. Where the heck is Gambia? Turnsout that it’s a tiny sliver of a country in Africa. This visit remindsme that all solar is local, especially when it comes to the costs. Howlocal is solar? It’s not just your city, your little town, or even yourhouse. In some ways, the [...]
Southwest Becoming The Land of Solar
In June, the OpenSolar team embarked on a road trip across thesouthwestern United States along fabled Route 66. The route takes youthrough the epicenter of solar thermal power plants in the Mojave desert region, including the original SEGS plants at Kramer Junction, Harper Lake and Daggett. Central station solar thermal is hot [...]
Suntech Power Plans to Start U.S. Panel Production in Early 2010
The Chinese solar company isnow choosing among four sites for its first, 100-megawatt factory tobuild solar panels in the United States, says an executive. SuntechPower plans to announce in a few weeks the site of its first factory inthe United States, and expects to start production in the first quarterof 2010, said Roger Efird, president [...]