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September 23, 2016

More Mid West locations to get finance for home energy improvements
Kansas City MO (SPX) Sep 19, 2016
Starting Thursday, the HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program will be available to homeowners in Jackson County and Kansas City, Missouri. HERO financing enables homeowners to make energy improvements and to pay for them over time through their property tax bill. HERO financing payments may have tax benefits, and many homeowners see immediate savings on utility bills by investing in efficiency or renewable energy upgrades. HERO, which stands for Home Energy Renovation Opportunity, is t ... read more

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New NOMAD sea buoy utilizes renewables for reliable data monitoring and transmitting from ocean to shore Kyocera's solar panels, tested for long-term deployment in marine and coastal areas, are powering an innovative Ocean Internet of Things (IoT) remote data monitoring platform off the coast of Huntin ... more		DOE SunShot Initiative supports five ASU solar research projects Arizona State University will receive $3.75 million in funding from the US Dept of Energy's SunShot Initiative for new solar research projects. The home of the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for ... more		CleanFund closes 6 transactions for commercial buildings in California CleanFund has announced the closing of six California transactions. Property owners used CleanFund's new SolarPACE program to finance renewable energy improvements to their properties. CleanFund pro ... more
				Tenaska's Second Large-scale Solar Project Begins Commercial Operation The 150-megawatt (MW) Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center West, a new solar plant in Southern California capable of powering 55,000 homes, is fully operational. The project supplies power under a 2 ... more		New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have taken the next step, developing a fabric ... more

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Water helps assembly of biofibers that could capture sunlight When it comes to water, some materials have a split personality - and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy. These small assemblies of organic molecules h ... more		Rapid gene analysis method accelerates photosynthesis studies Throughout the growing season seemingly benign clouds pass over millions of acres of crops, causing rapid fluctuations in light intensity and inadvertently robbing these plants of their productivity ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks		Solar panels + lead-acid batteries to increase electricity self-sufficiency Currently, in Belgium, photovoltaic systems coupled with lead-acid batteries do not ensure the electrical self-sufficiency of a residence at a reasonable cost. This is the summary conclusion of the ... more
				US should act to support innovation in increasingly clean electric power technologies A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine urges Congress, federal and state agencies, and regulatory institutions to significantly increase their support for in ... more		MiaSole aims to revolutionize flexible ultra-light solar technology Timed with the Solar Power International event in Las Vegas, MiaSole has announced the availability of its Next Generation Flexible Ulta-Light Solar Technology Products. As solar power is one of the ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

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New perovskite research discoveries may lead to solar cell, LED advances "Promising" and "remarkable" are two words U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory scientist Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites. Pe ... more		New tool can calculate renewable energy output anywhere in the world Researchers have created an interactive web tool to estimate the amount of energy that could be generated by wind or solar farms at any location. The tool, called Renewables.ninja, aims to make the ... more		NREL supercomputing provides insights from higher wind and solar generation in eastern grid A new study from the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative visualization tools to model, ... more		Recurrent Energy announces commercial operation of 100MW Mustang solar power project Canadian Solar has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy has reached commercial operation of the 100 MWac/134 MWp Mustang solar power project in Kings County, California. ... more

	A new technique opens up advanced solar cells In a photovoltaic cell, light generates opposite charges in the active layer. The charges must then be separated as quickly as possible to keep them from recombining. Positive charges are driven by ... more		Growing PV pipelines across Europe await policy support The demand for ground-mount photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Europe will decline by 40 percent in 2016 over the previous year, but recovery is expected after 2018. Part of this recovery will take place ... more

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ORNL optimizes formula for cadmium-tellurium solar cells

Michigan utility opens second campus solar farm

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DOE SunShot Initiative support new ASU solar research projects

Sports stadium harnesses power of the sun

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Ukraine sees solar power as Chernobyl's future

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