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  Solar Impulse’s U.S. Expedition Begins

  Solar Plane Aims For Coast-to-Coast U.S. Flight Without Using Fuel A solar-powered aircraft able to fly day and night began the first leg of its journey this morning on a mission to become the firs...

  0 comments | May.7.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  Solar: A New Way to Invest in the Future

  Here’s a riddle for the post-financial crisis era: Let’s say you want to set aside some funds for the future. Where should you put your money? Over the past decade the stock market has become incre...

  0 comments | Apr.29.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  German Green Power effects energy market in the Netherlands

  Because of the large German subsidy on green power, the Dutch energy market is severely disrupted. Due to the import of cheap German power, the Dutch energy capacity is threatened when demand goes ...

  0 comments | Apr.17.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  Solar PV Industry Now Operating As Net Energy Producer

  Thanks largely to more-efficient materials and manufacturing processes, the solar PV that was installed globally during 2012 likely produced more energy than was expended to make panels during the ...

  1 comments | Apr.5.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  China Seen Cutting Subsidy for Largest Solar Projects: Energy

  China, forecast to become the biggest solar market this year, may restructure its subsidies to favor smaller projects over larger ones to promote new plants in in areas with power shortages, an ind...

  0 comments | Mar.21.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  Shinsung Solar Energy Achieves 0% in Efficiency Reduction Rate of Its Solar Module

  The solar module recorded 0% in both PID and salt damage tests. Shinsung Solar Energy (Chairman: Lee Wan-geun), a solar photovoltaic technology company, achieved 0% in efficiency reduction rate eve...

  1 comments | Mar.21.2013 | The News > Korea

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  Largest concentrated solar power plant opens in Abu Dhabi

  The oil-rich state of Abu Dhabi has officially opened the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant. Shams 1 – which means ‘the sun’ in Arabic – uses advanced par...

  1 comments | Mar.19.2013 | Get involved > Videos

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  How Much Renewable Energy Can the Grid Handle?

  Experts at the ARPA-E conference weigh in on how much solar and wind power is, or isn’t, too much for the grid. We’ve seen a lot of dialogue over the past week over whether green power and grid sta...

  0 comments | Mar.8.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  With Solar, Libya Don’t Need No Stinking Oil

  In the unfolding renewable age, the idea of what constitutes a natural resource is shifting (or needs to). Consider this: If Libya were to devote 0.1 percent of its landmass to solar, it would prod...

  0 comments | Mar.6.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  The Expedia.com of Solar?

  EnergySage wants to make shopping for solar as easy as booking your travel. The cleantech industry is filled with references to internet businesses. There’s the Amazon.com of energy efficienc...

  1 comments | Feb.19.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  V3Solar’s Inverterless, Spinning, Concentrating Solar Cone

  “We have recently finished our initial prototype and proved all of our claims.” The V3Solar concentrating PV product spins and cools itself, harnesses a hypothesized “penumbra effect” t...

  0 comments | Feb.13.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  China’s Clean Energy Generation Surges Ahead

  China yet again looks to be leading the clean revolution, as electricity generated by clean energy rose 28.5% in 2012, accounting for over 20% of the nation’s total electricity output. According to...

  2 comments | Jan.23.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  Arizona’s Mesquite Solar On-Line, A DOE Loan Program Win

  The 150-megawatt Mesquite Solar 1 power plant, backed by a U.S. loan guarantee, is on-line and generating clean power for thousands of homes. Every big power plant running on renewable energy doesn...

  0 comments | Jan.14.2013 | Get involved > Post

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  Sunnier side

  The second phase of National Solar Mission aims at installing both off-grid and grid-connected rooftop photo-voltaic systems to address electricity shortage With demand of electricity growing by le...

  0 comments | Dec.27.2012 | Get involved > Post

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  Tackling Solar Soft Costs From Every Angle “If your plan involves Cong

  Source: Greentechmedia “If your plan involves Congress, it’s a bad plan.” While module prices plummet, the soft (non-hardware) costs of installing solar systems remain a stubborn barrier to afforda...

  3 comments | Nov.13.2012 | Get involved > Post

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  How Solar Light Saves Lives

  Source: Treehugger We’ve already seen how solar is a life saver in poor communities, replacing unhealthy, costly and dangerous kerosene lamps and improving school performance. But this is mor...

  0 comments | Oct.16.2012 | Get involved > Videos

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  Mitt Romney’s winners and losers

  Source: Grist The Big Energy industries (oil, coal and gas) along with their political allies like Mitt Romney are waging war against sustainable energy and efforts to transform our energy system a...

  0 comments | Oct.15.2012 | Get involved > Post

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  Wind is the Cheapest Power Source in the World, Report Says

  Source: Treehugger Electricity generated by wind farms might just be the cheapest in the world. IF, that is, you take into account the myriad costs that polluting energy sources like coal impose on...

  0 comments | Oct.4.2012 | Get involved > Post

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  Georgia Power makes a big bet on solar

  Source: Grist Georgia Power plans to invest heavily in new energy production. Specifically, up to 210 megawatts of solar by 2017. [The company], based in Atlanta, submitted plans to regulators to b...

  1 comments | Sep.28.2012 | Get involved > Post

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  Solar & Wind Energy Stabilize the Power Grid

  Source:Cleantechnica Solar power, wind power, biogas, and other renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly important in the generation of electricity. As the quantity of wind turbines and p...

  0 comments | Sep.24.2012 | Get involved > Post