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Silevo Tops CA’s List of PV Manufacturers
Silevo, a maker of next generation silicon photovoltaics, announced that it has topped California Energy Commission’s (CEC’s) module rankings for layered silicon PV modules—not bad for a company that just came out of stealth mode last year. The company achieved the results with cells that are 22 percent efficient and have withstood the equivalent of [...]
SunPower Pushes International Expansion
SunPower Corp. is aggressively expanding into international markets, including China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East. The California company announced this week that it financed 33 megawatts of solar in South Africa, a relatively new market for the high-efficiency solar panel manufacturer. As the cost of solar drops relative to the cost of [...]
When Will Nuclear Go Green?
This country has started to pay a lot of attention to solar, wind, and clean coal technologies. But why does nuclear get shunned from the spotlight? The United States gets 20 percent of its energy from nuclear power, third behind coal and natural gas. How many ads have you seen for “clean coal” or natural gas [...]
NICE: Energy Efficiency Legislation Signed by Obama
President Obama signed the American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections Act (H.R. 6582) on Wednesday after the bill received bipartisan support in Congress. The law is a modification of the Enabling Energy Savings Innovations Act (H.R. 4850) and includes elements of the Shaheen-Portman senate bill. Energy efficiency enthusiasts hailed the move, but also cautioned that there [...]
America’s Green Future
Virtually every aspect of our current electric grid is outdated. From the way we generate power to the distribution of that power to homes and businesses, our grid infrastructure is based on old technology that does not make sense in our modern world. Consider how we generate the majority of our electricity: by burning coal and [...]
The Solar Industry is on a Tear
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), along with GTM Research, today released the Q3 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report., and the record-breaking news keeps on growing. It is remarkable how in a world of so much financial and employment disappointment, the solar industry continues to prevail quarter after quarter, surging 44 percent from this time [...]
RE-volv: Crowdfunding Community Solar Installations
Andreas Karelas founded RE-volv in 2011. He started the organization, he says, “out of a sense of frustration felt by many of us working for clean energy. The change isn’t happening fast enough and if it’s going to happen now, we’ll have to do it ourselves. There’s a huge opportunity here to mobilize people who [...]
DOE Publishes Early Release of 2013 U.S. Energy Outlook
The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration has published their Early Release of the U.S. Annual Energy Outlook for 2013. Some key points: Domestic production of crude oil is increasing and is expected to continue to increase, reaching 7.5 million barrels per day by 2019 Our consumption of natural gas is also expected to increase, [...]
In Focus: Philanthropic Crowdfunding
The earliest known citation of crowdfunding was made in 2006 and since then it has exploded onto the startup scene as the best way for fledgling ideas, products, creative projects, and causes to attain investment when banks, venture capitalists, and angel investors may otherwise reject them. Crowdfunding affords an individual to pursue an interest, hobby [...]