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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Wednesday that the Department of Energy would guarantee a loan to support solar panel construction on rooftops across 28 states. The project, financed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, would install 733 megawatts of solar panels on commercial buildings – enough energy to supply 88,000 homes. NRG Energy, a power [...]
‘Solar Zone’ Articulates New, World-Class Concept
TUCSON, Ariz.– The “Solar Zone” at the University of Arizona Science & Technology Park is a revolutionary, solar-centric business zone poised to significantly advance solar energy innovation and production. The Solar Zone has thrusts Southern Arizona into the center of solar investment.
The Solar Zone is a sweeping integration of research [...]
China is emerging as the world’s clean-energy powerhouse, according to a new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Julie Schmit, USA Today – Last year, China spent more than any other major country on clean energy, including wind and solar, toppling the U.S. from the top spot for the first time in five years, the [...]
Solar company unveils ‘Life – Powered by Solar’ national advertising campaign
White River Junction, Vt. – Solar installation and distribution firm groSolar today announced the launch of a new national advertising campaign that hits newspapers, radio stations, events and online marketing channels across the country this spring.
The ‘Life – Powered by Solar’ ad campaign is groSolar’s [...]
David J. Grimshaw and Sian Lewis, Science and Development Network — Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world’s poorest countries.
An estimated 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity, with more than 80 per cent of these living in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.
The problem is [...]
The Newest Hybrid Model
Mar 4, 2010 New York Times
INDIANTOWN, Fla. — In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.
Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the FPL Group utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 [...]
Lux Research bets on PV module makers.
Lux is betting on a select few of 127 photovoltaic module makers that will emerge from the solar shakeout.
It’s been a sobering year in the solar market. Oversupply has forced module makers to reduce prices as much as 30% in the past twelve months. Despite the looming shakeout, expectations [...]
How to invest in an evolving economy?
As businesses — many of whom have record levels of cash on hand — look for new opportunities, readers and experts chime in on where to put corporate investments.
Companies, readers and analysts had a lot to say about what happened in 2011 and what it means for 2012. Read the best of the reader’s responses, along with interviews with Panasonic, Mohr Davidow, Jones Lang LaSalle, Duke Energy, Acorn Energy, and Advantage for Analysts.
For a wide range of businesses, the green economy continues to be stalled behind a lack of vision and a supporting plan. In this issue we look at a long term plan, two businesses creating new markets, and a mass movement that has lost its way.
