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October 24, 2011
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Solar Revolution on Brink of Winning Long War
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2011
11 years ago I founded ABC Solar Inc and started to really study the solar market, the history and origins. In my journey as a Los Angeles based Solar grid-tie installation company, I have run the range of emotions from tears of joy in my client's eyes to yelps, grunts and grins when their electric meter spins backwards. The opposite of that is dealing with red-tape. I believe it's called red-tape because of how gosh darn mad the implementer of policy can make me. So, here I sit in October 2011 an ... read more

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Standard Solar Breaks Ground on Solar Canopy Installation
Standard Solar has announced the start of construction on a solar canopy electricity installation at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. The 118 kW project, which is slated to be complet ... more
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Solar Frontier Panels Demonstrate Durability and Safety
Solar Frontier has announced that its CIS (copper, indium, selenium) thin-film solar modules have been certified for durability and safety by leading certification organizations. "Solar Fronti ... more
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US Solar Jobs Census Finds Solar Employment Soars As US Economy Lags
The Solar Foundation has released its second annual review of the solar workforce in the United States. The report, titled, "National Solar Jobs Census 2011: A Review of the U.S. Solar Workforce" fo ... more
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BrightSource Energy announces plans for 750 MW Rio Mesa solar facility
BrightSource Energy has filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy Commission to develop three 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power plants (750 megawatts combined) in Cali ... more
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Now you can determine the solar efficiency of your roof
It is becoming more and more common to install solar panels on roofs in order to obtain green electricity, but not all roofs are equally suitable. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Swede ... more
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Solar Industry Donates Solar Arrays and Installation Services
This morning, representatives of several solar companies with a Texas presence - including SolarCity, Trina Solar, Solar US, SES 21, SolarTek, Schletter, and Bosch Solar Energy - joined Solar Energy ... more
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Hanwha SolarOne Unveils High Performance Solar PV Modules
Hanwha SolarOne has announced its first AC Module (ACM) incorporating the world's most efficient microinverter technology from Enphase Energy. The Enphase Energized AC Module is a combination ... more
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Amonix to Power the Largest CPV Solar Power Plant in US
Amonix is now powering North America's largest utility-scale CPV power plant, a 5-megawatt facility in Hatch, New Mexico. The plant is owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the compet ... more
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Siemens Sinvert Inverters Featured in Solar Powered Aggregate Facility
Siemens Industry has announced it has added another megawatt (MW) of solar power to its portfolio as Granite Construction Company (GCC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Granite Construction, recently c ... more
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Japanese crew wins 3,000km Australian solar race
Japan's Tokai University won the 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) World Solar Challenge car race through Australia's desert Thursday in a tight contest marred by wildfires and an explosion. ... more
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Singapore poised as 'lab' for green energy
Singapore can serve as a "living lab" for green energy solutions, a government official says. ... more
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US solar firm launches trade action against China
In a new show of anger at China's trade practices, a major US maker of solar cells and panels announced Wednesday it was filing a formal complaint targeting Beijing. ... more
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Solar Double Cropping Project
Miraverse Power and Light, Piedmont Biofuels, Southern Energy Management, and Piedmont Biofarm are pleased to announce their "Solar Double Cropping" project in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The e ... more
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Standard Solar Brings Solar Energy to The Brick Companies
Standard Solar has announced it is developing a 191 kW solar electric system for The Brick Companies (TBC). Standard Solar will build a ground mount solar electric system consisting of more than 800 ... more
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Suniva Chosen to Supply High Performance Solar Panels to Innovative Residential Leasing Program
Suniva has announced that SunCap Financial has selected the company to be a supplier for the SunCap Solar Lease Program. The program gives U.S. homeowners an affordable option to design, install, an ... more
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Majority of Americans See Benefits of Solar Water Heating
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released new national polling showing strong public support for solar water heating systems and the perception that solar water heating helps the e ... more
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Sungevity and Rabobank Create New Fund for US Residential Solar Projects
Sungevity and Rabobank has announced the establishment of a residential solar fund that will support over $50 million of new U.S. residential solar lease projects. The fund marks an important milest ... more
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ABC Solar opens first Malibu's retail solar design and build studio
On October 28, 2011 at solar noon, the first step in a long-term campaign to help Malibu residents take themselves off the fossil-fuel power grid, ABC Solar, Inc. announced plans for Malibu's first ... more
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Qatar Solar Technologies to build polysilicon plant
Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) has announced that it will be building a polysilicon production facility worth approximately US$1bn in Qatar. QSTec's plant will manufacture 8,000 MTPY (metric tons ... more
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French solar industry in the balance
What is the future for the French solar PV market in the light of the recent measures taken by the government? This question will be the focus of a conference about the solar future in France run by ... more
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Largest Solar Power System at a Winery in the Pacific Northwest
King Estate Winery is teaming up with SolarCity, Lane Electric Co-op, and Advanced Energy Systems to install the largest solar power system at a winery in the Pacific Northwest. Construction on the ... more
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Westgate Chrysler Jeep And Southern Energy Management Combine For Large Solar Project
A Raleigh car dealership is leading the way in promoting sustainable energy in North Carolina. This fall, Westgate Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram (CJDR) is adding a 98.7-kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (P ... more
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Leaner, Faster Rooftop Solar Installations
SOLON Corporation has launched SOLquick, a patent pending new plug-and-play commercial rooftop solution. Initial SOLquick flat roof installation has proven to reduce mechanical installation time by ... more
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Extended US Treasury Program Generates Significant Job Growth in 2012
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released "Economic Impact of Extending the Section 1603 Treasury Program," a report by renowned global energy analysis firm EuPD Research. The repo ... more
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TimberRock Energy Solutions and Standard Solar Partner To Install Solar EV Charging Station
TimberRock Energy Solutions has commissioned Maryland's first solar EV charging station at General Motor's Allison Transmission plant in White Marsh, Maryland. When asked by General Motors to ... more
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China's Feed-in Tariff Policy Stimulates 14 GW PV Pipeline
The release of a national photovoltaic (PV) Feed-in Tariff (FiT) policy in July has resulted in a significant increase in PV project development activity in China, according to the first edition of ... more
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Upsolar Modules Qualify for 10 Percent Premium on Italian Feed-in Tariff
Upsolar has announced that the company's products earned "Made in EU" certification from the Institute of Industrial Certification for Mechanics (ICIM). This approval immediately qualifies systems i ... more
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Silicon Energy's Minnesota Solar Plant Begins Production
Silicon Energy has announced the grand opening of its new, multi-million dollar solar PV manufacturing plant in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, and start of local production of the company's popular Casca ... more
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France launches vast solar panel array
France on Thursday launched its largest-ever solar energy farm, with an array of panels spread over about 200 hectares (500 acres) in the mountainous southern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. ... more
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FLABEG develops the new Ultimate Trough for CSP plants
FLABEG and schlaich bergermann und partner, both specialized in the CSP business, will be working together to make CSP technology more competitive. Since January 2010 a high level engineering team c ... more
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New Saudi Arabias of solar energy: Himalaya Mountains, Andes, Antarctica
Mention prime geography for generation of solar energy, and people tend to think of hot deserts. But a new study concludes that some of the world's coldest landscapes - including the Himalaya Mounta ... more
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