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Arithmetic trumps Ideology: Digging Into Conservative Misconceptions of Energy Costs
Sep 2nd
September 2, 2010 in Energy & Fuel
Here is an excellent guest post by an energy veteran and businessman on the costs of clean energy compared to old, dirty energy.
We’ve been writing on clean energy more and more these days. It is clearly one way to address global climate change, air pollution, and water pollution. And with another offshore oil production facility catching fire today, the sense of urgency to switch over from “dirty” to “clean” energy is growing.
In this guest post from Tom Rooney, President and CEO of SPG Solar in Novato, California we get a deeper look into the real costs of energy. Tom has More >
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Loading ...Smart Grid and Renewable Technologies May See Double Digit Growth in Five Years
Aug 28th
Aug 27, 2010
Renewable energy technologies, fueled by worldwide government support in the form of stimulus programs and other incentives, have improved the global economic outlook with new jobs and industry. Six will hit double digit growth in the next five years — and change our lifestyle, according to a series of market studies from SBI Energy. Here’s what the industrial market research company found:
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...New “Hybrid Energy Consortium” promotes Integrated Solar Combined Cycle #ISCC #HEC
Aug 12th
Aug 11, 2010
In a landmark event for the energy industry, four major industry players have joined forces to form the Hybrid Energy Consortium (“HEC”), focused on the design of next generation utility-scale commercial integrated solar combined cycle (“ISCC”) power plants. The founding members of the consortium are QGEN of the USA, FLABEG Group and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner Sohne GmbH, both of Germany and JGC Corporation of Japan – all known as innovators in their respective specialties in the energy industry.
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(2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5) Loading ...Strong Growth, But Are Rocky Times Coming for Wind?
Aug 10th
HERMAN K. TRABISH: AUGUST 10, 2010 Strong Growth, But Are Rocky Times Coming for Wind?
Wind is strong, but natural gas, transmission line issues loom
“We’re growing dramatically,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff scientist Ryan Wiser said of the wind industry’s 2009 performance. “We’re on a path to achieve much higher levels of wind.” This is in stark contrast to wind’s 2010 first half performance, which American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode characterized as “dismal.”
The 2009 Wind Technologies Market Report, by Wiser and Mark Bolinger of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), describes a record-breaking 2009. Yet a 71 percent drop in installation in the More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...GTM Research: 2010 Global PV Demand Analysis and Forecast
Aug 10th
Shayle Kann kann@gtmresearch.com
MAY 19, 2010
2010 Global PV Demand Analysis and Forecast
Between 2000 and 2009, global PV demand grew at an average annual rate of 51 percent, rising from 170 MW to 7,059 MW. Despite this impressive rate of growth, the past two years have witnessed a fundamental and difficult market shift for manufacturers. Previously, burgeoning European feed-in tariff markets enabled global demand to exceed available supply, driving up feedstock prices and attracting new entrants across the value chain. But the combination of an ensuing rapid capacity build-out and the financial crisis of 2008 and early 2009 shifted market power downstream More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Solar Power Surge Prompts TEP to Seek Changes to SunShare Rebate Program
Jul 19th
TUCSON, Ariz., Jul 14, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A surge in the popularity of solar energy systems has prompted Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to propose new, lower subsidies for residential customers who install photovoltaic (PV) arrays.
Nearly 1,100 local homeowners have reserved TEP SunShare rebates for PV systems this year, exceeding the total number of residential solar power systems completed over the previous nine years combined. Local businesses also have rushed to invest in solar power systems, draining the funds designated for up-front commercial incentives in 2010.
In response to this unprecedented demand, TEP has asked the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Second Age of Solar – Driving Costs Down End to End to Get to Grid Parity | American Electric Technologies, Inc. AETI
Jul 19th
Posted on July 17, 2010
The Second Age of Solar – Driving Costs Down End to End to Get to Grid Parity
In this article, we shall explore some of the methods and techniques to drive down the costs of solar energy production & maintenance while increasing solar energy production efficiency over a much longer life. By achieving lower costs over life while increasing watts produced over life, solar project financiers and developers are rewarded with a greater return on solar power generation and its sale to the open market, perhaps without the need for incentives by 2016. That would result in solar power becoming the first of the renewable energies to More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Fred Morse on Abengoa Solar, Arizona ($1.45 billion DoE loan guarantee) #Solana
Jul 10th
Solar’s Long and Winding Road By Marc Gunther Published July 09, 2010
In 1969, the Nixon White House asked a young assistant professor of engineering at the University of Maryland whether solar energy made sense for America. Absolutely, he replied.
Four decades later, Fred Morse is still trying to persuade the government to put its muscle behind solar. Last week, he scored a big victory.
In his weekly radio address on July 3, President Obama announced that the Department of Energy had awarded a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar — a Spanish company where Morse is senior advisor for U.S. operations — to build one of the largest solar power More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...FHFA statement could bring PACE residential retrofits to a halt unless Congress steps in
Jul 10th
MARK BOSLET: JULY 9, 2010
PACE Program on Life Support
FHFA statement could bring PACE residential retrofits to a halt unless Congress steps in.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, there’s more bad news for the home energy retrofit program PACE.
PACE was already under pressure from mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now the Federal Housing Finance Agency has weighed in with its opinion of the program, and it isn’t good.
The national mortgage regulator claims PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) creates “risk management” challenges and “significant safety and soundness concerns” for mortgage lenders and investors in mortgage securities. The FHFA “urged state and More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yingli Completes 400-MW Production Expansion
Jul 8th
Published: July 8, 2010
Baoding, China — Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited announced that its latest 400-megawatt (MW) capacity expansion has been completed and is producing panels.
“Given the higher cell efficiency of the Yingli Solar Panda Module, we expect to help our customers further reduce their balance-of-system cost.”– Liansheng Miao, Chairman and CEO, Yingli Green Energy
The new solar PV manufacturing lines include a 300-MW PANDA monocrystalline silicon based production capacity at the company’s Baoding headquarters, and a 100-MW multicrystalline silicon based production capacity in Haikou, Hainan Province.
“We expect these latest production lines to reach full capacity by the More >
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