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First Solar Sells 550-Megawatt Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
First Solar, Inc. has announced completion of the sale of one of the world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power projects – the 550-megawatt (AC) Desert Sunlight Solar Farm near Desert Center, Calif. How People Arrived Here: cambodia solar farms,...
U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Set to Begin
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 is taking shape as teams work around the clock to assemble 19 solar homes on the National Mall’s West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in time for the 10 a.m. September 23 opening.
Russia’s Lukoil to Establish Solar Energy Plant in Uzbekistan
Russian Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov said that his company intends to develop alternative energy projects in Uzbekistan. During the Soviet era, Uzbekistan was the USSR’s leading center for solar research and in 1965 the Uzbek Academy of Sciences...
Substantial Fall in the Installed Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems in the United States
The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2010 and into the first half of 2011, according to the latest edition of an annual PV cost tracking report released by the Department of Energy’s...
SolarWorld Partners Install Arrays on Virgin Islands, American Samoa And Guam
Visitors landing on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands will notice a 1,600-foot-long array of ground-mounted SolarWorld solar panels paralleling a runway at Cyril E. King Airport. The 450-kilowatt system, to be unveiled on September 14, is prominent...
Germany Increasing Its Focus on Solar Energy
In the wake of the 11 March nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power complex, the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to shutter the country’s nuclear power plants, which in turn has increased Berlin’s...
The Toxins in the Innovation Kool-Aid
Two stories in the Business Report section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle provide a useful perspective on why it is that Barack Obama’s mantra about solving the interlinked problems of the current economic crisis and its corollary of devastating...
Turkish Government Releases Solar Energy Investment Plan
Turkey’s Ministry of Energy’s nine-item solar energy action plan, covering 27 of the country’s provinces, includes eventual investments topping $2.8 billion, and published the plan in the Official Gazette.
