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- KPMG REPORT SAYS SOLAR ENERGY CAN BE COMPETITIVE.
- A report from consultants KPMG commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands unveiled on September 14 says that in order to bring down the price of solar power to the level of conventional energy, the production of solar panels needs to be scaled up to 500 A report...
- Research articles 1999-09-17
- Sharp Solar Panels to Be Offered on All Homes in New California Community; BLU S.K.Y Homes Makes Solar Power a Standard for 300 New Homes In Bakersfield
- HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Sharp, the world leader in solar cell production, will supply solar panels for up to 300 new homes that are being built by BLU S.K.Y Homes in Bakersfield, California. Juliana's Garden, located in the new master-planned community of City in the Hills, will be the first...
- Research articles 2006-08-30
- Oil giant BP plc plans to turn solar power affiliate in Frederick
- Oil giant BP plc plans to turn a solar power affiliate into an alternative energy heavyweight that would develop hydrogen, wind and other renewable power plants worldwide, the company said yesterday.The news comes as subsidiary BP Solar completes a $25 million expansion to its Frederick solar power panel factory and...
- Research articles 2005-11-29
- SHARP OPENS MEMPHIS PLANT FOR SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTS.
- Sharp Corporation, Memphis, Tenn., a global leader in solar energy production, and its U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary Sharp Electronics Corporation, have officially opened its first solar panel manufacturing facility outside of Japan in Memphis, Sharp Corporation, Memphis, Tenn., a global leader in solar energy ...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Sharp opens U.S. plant for solar energy products.(Newsline)(Brief Article)
- Memphis, Tenn. -- Sharp Corp., and its U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary Sharp Electronics Corp., officially opened its first solar panel manufacturing facility outside of Japan in Memphis, Tenn., on Oct. 16, 2003. The factory in Memphis, based at Memphis, Tenn. -- Sharp Corp., and...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Evergreen Solar Walking on Sunshine
- Evergreen Solar said Thursday it received two long-term contracts worth nearly $1 billion. The company inked a $750 million deal with Germany-based Ralos Vertriebs, a major European installer of large-scale solar power plants, for panel deliveries starting this year through 2013 and another deal worth about $250...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Schools Line Up to Install Solar Panels
- Schools in our society seem to be perennially cash-strapped, unable to spend extra on frills even if they might make the educational experience better. So it's somewhat surprising that more and more schools are lining up for solar power, some in multi-million dollar deals. The most recent...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- On Rooftops, A Newly Attractive Form of Solar Power
- It may not be attractive to your pocketbook, but at least it'll look slick: Dow Chemical has unveiled a new solar rooftop shingle that converts the sun's rays to electricity. The shingles work just like solar panels, but without the bulky and ugly mounting systems used to attach panels to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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- Solar Energy Conversion Offers a Solution to Help Mitigate Global Warming
- To: SCIENCE EDITORSContact: Sylvia Carson of Argonne National Laboratory, +1-630-252- 5510, or scarson@anl.gov ARGONNE, Ill., March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in a report (view it...
- Research articles 2007-03-06
- Solar Panels and Parking Lots: An Extraordinary Dual Use
- John Petersen submits: Yesterday Envision Solar and Bright Automotive announced plans to develop a nationwide network of solar panel equipped parking lots. The basic idea is to install Florida style carport covers over existing parking lots and then fill the open roof space with PV panels. While the partnership's plan...
- External links 2009-04-22
- BrightSource and Edison Bring Back Big Solar
- Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back groundbreaking on T. Boone Picken's wind farm and likely delaying the world's largest solar panel installation, solar thermal startup...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Energy Roundup: Green Mobile Technology, Antarctica's Carbon-Free Base, and More
- Green technology star of cell phone industry show-- Solar panel cell phones, eco-friendly packaging and energy efficient chargers will be among the latest green technology applications featured this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. A number of products have been unveiled at the industry show, which kicked off...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- China's solar making gains in West
- In an effort to boost market share, China's largest solar panel manufacturer, Suntech, is selling solar panels in the United States at below the cost of materials, assembly and shipping, Shi Zhengrong, the company's chief executive and founder, told the Times. Solar companies in the West, meanwhile, are facing a...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Energy Roundup: Conduit Wins Peru Gas Concession, Solyndra Gets $600 Million, Drop in Solar Prices, and More
- Conduit Capital wins $1.4 billion concession to build 700 mile Peruvian gas pipeline -- The private equity investment firm, Conduit Capital Partners has announced that subsidiary, Kuntur Transportadora de Gas, was awarded a 30-year concession contract by the Peruvian Government to build a 700 mile pipeline to carry natural...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Trina Solar: Still Struggling to Bring Manufacturing Costs in Line With Falling Prices
- Jifan Gao, chairman and chief executive of Trina Solar, told analysts on the solar panel maker's second-quarter earnings call that he believed market confidence was returning to the photovoltaic sector and expected gross margin to stabilize going forward. Critical to Gao's optimistic modeling, however, are certain assumptions on the vertically...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Union Shakedowns Face Renewable Energy Companies
- "It's not a warm fuzzy thing they're doing," says a Sierra Club spokesman of union labor tactics against renewable energy companies. "It's a very self-interested thing." But the question, never quite asked by Todd Woody in an article about unions in the New York Times, is whether it's acceptable for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Report: The dark side of solar
- Solar cells may generate clean green electricity but manufacturing them involves a witches brew of toxic chemicals that could harm the environment if millions of solar panels end up in landfills, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The California environmental group is calling for...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Why Arizona's Solar-Powered Train Won't Work
- Another day, another proposal for a multi-billion dollar rail line in the United States. An Arizona company called Solar Bullet wants to build a 220 mile-per-hour train from Tucson to Phoenix, a journey of about 115 miles. Aside from the whopping $27 billion price tag for just the first phase,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Solar Is Shining: Time to Get TAN
- Garrett Beauvais submits: It’s been a rough ride for investors in solar stocks but now may be the time to get back in and the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy Index ETF TAN looks like a great way to go. From its high of over $30 in May 2008,...
- External links 2009-09-16
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