Alternative Energy News - Summary
A summary of recent alternative energy news.
DOE Backs Hawaiian Wind Power Project
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has finalized a $117 million loan guarantee for the Kahuku Wind Power project. The 30-megawatt (MW) project is located in Kahuku, Hawaii and will create over 200 jobs on the island of Oahu, according to DOE.
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Consolidation Continues: Panasonic To Buy Sanyo
On Wednesday this week, Panasonic announced its intentions to purchase remaining shares of Sanyo Electric Co and Panasonic Electric Works (PEW). Panasonic already had a 50% stake in Sanyo as of last year. Sanyo is a big player in the solar market and producer of lithium-ion batteries.
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Recurrent Finances 5-MW PV Project
The solar PV development company Recurrent Energy has been making some big project announcements lately. The developer said yesterday that it had raised $18 million in debt for a 5-MW PV system in San Francisco.
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Bigger Blades and Better Designs in Wind Energy
Evidence that wind generation equipment development continues apace emerges from a swath of new designs that are intended to extend the operational range of existing machines into previously untapped wind regimes. The moves indicate a key trend that is being adopted by the industry's leading original equipment manufacturers as they bid to maximize their engineering capital.
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CSP Today: Interview with Anoop Mathur from Terrafore
Ahead of the First Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit India, CSP Today catches up with Anoop Mathur from Terrafore, who will be speaking at the Summit.
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US Company Sending Wind Energy Parts To China
The Timken Company yesterday announced that it had received a contract worth US$26 million to supply wind turbine products and services to China's Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company, one of the top five wind power equipment manufacturers in the world.
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Certification Requirements Could Hinder UK Solar Market
According to EUPD Research, an organization that is studying the UK PV market, an important aspect of the feed-in tariff (FIT) regulation could stymie growth of the solar market in the UK.
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Utility-scale Battery Research Underway
What happens when the U.S. government awards DuPont, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bosch, and 3M $1.6 million to develop a longer-lasting, less expensive way to store clean energy? We will soon find out.
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The Only Way Is Up: CSP Builds Up Heat
If you're wondering where the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is heading from here, crane your neck and look upward. Forecasts show industry growth climbing steeply from 2010.
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Enolia Solar Systems to Install 1.5MW of SolarEdge Power Harvesting Systems in Greece, as Part of a New Partnership
SolarEdge Technologies, a provider of end-to-end Distributed Solar Power Harvesting and monitoring solutions, is expanding its activity in Greece, announcing a partnership with Enolia Solar Systems SA, a leading Greek company active in the development of PV projects, trading of PV solar equipment and design and implementation of rooftop applications in the rapidly developing PV markets of Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria.
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Audio Interview: The Future of Thin-film Solar Cell Manufacturing, Chris Eberspacher
Eberspacher summarizes sessions on thin-film photovoltaics and PV fab management from Intersolar NA 2010.
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Audio Interview: eIQ Energy Partners with Shoales to Reduce BoS Costs
Michael Lamb tells editor Debra Vogler how the company's vBoost technology and its partnership announcement with Shoales will address reduced balance-of-system (BoS) costs.
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SMA Expands North American Utility-Scale PV Inverter Line
SMA America LLC, the U.S.-based subsidiary of global solar technology leader SMA Solar Technology AG, has expanded its U.S. line of utility products with the Sunny Central High Efficiency (HE) line of solar inverters. The new 500 and 630 kilowatt inverters provide integrators, project developers and EPCs with a utility-scale 1000VDC solution that features the industry's best efficiency in the medium voltage interconnection category.
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U.S. DOE Funds 'Sunlight-to-Fuel' Project
The U.S. Department of Energy Announced earlier this month that it would set aside more than $100 million to create an "Energy Innovation Hub" to encourage innovation around producing fuels directly from sunlight.
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Outpace Renewables
The research and consulting firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reports that subsidies for fossil energies are far outweighing those for renewables. While many governments are putting support behind clean energy, the figures show that renewables are still far behind, reports BNEF.
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MyEnergySolution.com Helping San Diego Residents Go Solar
