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Good News and Bad News with California Solar Power
As many people know, California has the highest solar power adoption rates in the country mostly due to large financial support from the state through the California Solar Initiative. In fact, California ranked first in the U.S. in installed solar capacity with 212 MW in 2009 claiming 49% of the national market. That, of course, [...]
Connecticut Solar Power: Small State, Large Dreams and Depleted Funds
By Sophia Moreno It may the nation’s third smallest state, but Connecticut’s electric rates are among the highest in the country. In 2009, Connecticut’s average rate was more than 74% above the national average and up until the end of October, when New York officially surpassed them, Connecticut’s electric rates trailed only those of Hawaii’s. [...]
California Approves World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant
Large power solar farms are on the move in California! According to the New York Times, California regulators have authorized the construction of, for the time being, the world’s largest solar thermal power plant, a 1,000-megawatt complex called the Blythe Solar Power Project to be built in the Mojave Desert. A commission spokeswoman said the [...]
San Diego Gas & Electric to Buy Solar Power
State regulators have recently approved a proposal allowing San Diego Gas & Electric to build its own solar farms in the San Diego area and buy power from others who build them. This exciting development could have a dramatic impact on the development of green power in Southern California as well as the future development [...]
States That Consume the Least Amount of Electricity Are Great Candidates for Energy Efficient Solutions
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, the San Diego Union-Tribune published data indicating that the individuals in states that use the least amount of power, pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country. This seems to be counter-intuitive but the reason is fairly simple: utility companies have to spread the costs [...]
Clean Energy Experts Unveils MultifamilyG.com – A Green Website for Multifamily Buildings
LOS ANGELES, CA. (September 1, 2010) Clean Energy Experts is pleased to announce that it has launched its latest green website, MultifamilyG.com, dedicated to educating multifamily property managers, owners and investors about practical green technologies that can reduce operating costs and increase the community’s allure to residents. Whether multifamily decision makers are considering the construction [...]
The Recovery Act: Cutting Costs and Upping Capacity
Yesterday, Secretary Chu joined Vice President Joe Biden at the White House to help unveil a new report on how investments made through the Recovery Act have been impacting innovation. While the report analyzed several major sectors, its most striking findings centered on energy. The Recovery Act and Department of Energy investments in a range [...]
NPR’s Report on California’s Quest for Clean Power
National Public Radio (NPR) aired a special report on California’s effort towards clean energy last week. Here is a quick summary of the five-day report. Day 1: Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom Ever since the creation of the first wind farm in the San Francisco area, California has been the leader of [...]
Disturbed Land Becomes Destination for Solar Farms
One of environmentalists’ major concerns about adding solar farms in places such as the Mojave Desert is the destruction of land and disturbance of the natural habitat. But what if that land was already destroyed due to salt contamination from over-irrigation? Could these environmentalists bear to place a solar farm over this disturbed land? Right [...]
New Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency
A major downfall of solar power has been its inability to combine both the sun’s light and heat to perform at maximum efficiency. For a while now, we only have been able to utilize one or the other. Solar panels capture the sun’s light to create electricity and solar thermal captures the heat. Recently, Stanford [...]
