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Borrego Solar Awarded GSA Contract to Provide Solar Installation Services to Federal Government
SAN DIEGO, Feb 21, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Borrego Solar Systems, Inc., a leading designer, installer and financier of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, today announced that it was awarded a contract by the General Services Administration (GSA). More...
Minnesota utility increases solar-power incentives
Feb 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - David Shaffer Star Tribune, Minneapolis - The electric utility serving northeastern and central Minnesota has added new incentives for customers who install solar-electric power arrays, including a made-in-Minnesota bonus. More...
National University and SPG Solar Complete Multi Carport and Rooftop Solar Power Systems
SAN DIEGO, CA, Feb 21, 2012 -- MARKETWIRE - National University, the second-largest private, nonprofit institution of higher education in California and the 12th-largest in the United States, and SPG Solar, a national solar energy company, have completed an 852 kilowatt (kW) DC solar power project at two National University campuses in San Diego, California. More...
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Projected solar, wind job growth drives Kirkwood programs
Feb 20 - The Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Sometime in May visitors to Kirkwood Community College may witness students jumping out of a wind turbine and rapidly coming down a rope more than 400 feet to the ground. More...
Future looks cloudy for solar panels in Shakopee
Feb 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - David Peterson Star Tribune, Minneapolis - Thousands of panels making up the biggest solar energy site in Minnesota may spring up alongside a highway in Shakopee. More...
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Solar Module Efficiency: Where Does It Matter?

Blogger Photo By Ben Lack -   Efficiency is a good thing. It can make cars go farther on a gallon of gas, and light bulbs more...

EXTREME COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE A CLEAR CONSEQUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power more...

Someone needs to follow the money--the numbers do not make sense

By Mark Wooldridge - Defense Department Studies Solar Energy Potential at Desert Bases - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) could generate 7,000 megawatts more...

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Blogger Photo By Ron Vogt - USAGAPP.com USA Green jobs now.Org Secures bids for smart grid inspections 2012 summer. Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 million) USAGAPP.com more...

Disruption – Where Art Thou? Notes from Distributech

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There is all the glitter – the gleaming transmission widgets, the towering consultants’ tents. Tons of wall-to-wall eye candy for more...
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On Solar and Solyndra

By Tam Hunt
Reports of the death of the solar industry are greatly exaggerated. Yes, there have been some high profile bankruptcies of US solar companies -- Solyndra, Evergreen, Spectrawatt -- in 2011. But the solar industry as more...
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Is Solar Too Expensive?

By Larry Mapes
A friend of mine called the other day very agitated because she heard a commentator/professor from MIT say on a national news cast "solar is too expensive". The news cast was about the nuclear plant more...
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Solar Gardens: Sprouting Soon in a Community Near You

By Lee Barken
In March 2007, Community Housing Works, a non-profit developer/owner of low income housing projects, unveiled a 56-unit multi-tenant unit (MTU) apartment complex called Solara in Poway, California, in San Diego county. Solara was designed from more...
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Solar Farming Potential in India

By Darshan Goswami
The newest crop in India could be electricity from the sun. "Solar Farming" can help change India's energy economy to clean and efficient renewable energy during the day when it is needed the most, create more...
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Middle East Countries Putting the Sun to Work Overtime

By Ramanathan Menon
While renewable energy production scenario is improving slowly in many developing nations, more action is now happening in the oil producing countries of the Middle East. more...
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