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All Signs Point To Solar Power Juggernaut Rolling On
It’s not a contest. Renewable energy is no zero-sum game (or doesn’t have to be, at least), and according to the experts, all of it and then some will be needed to keep global temperatures from rising...
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Tesla To Announce Home Battery This Month
Tesla Motors will announce a home battery and a “very large” utility-scale battery by the end of the month, according to an e-mail sent to investors and analysts… The e-mail Tuesday from Jeffrey...
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Tesla Unveils Powerwall Battery For Homes, Powerpacks For Businesses And Cities
Tesla unveiled a line of rechargeable lithium-ion battery products on Thursday night that can use stored solar energy to power homes, businesses and communities. Speaking at a Tesla facility near...
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Tim Cook: New Solar Farm Will Be Apple’s ‘Biggest, Boldest And Most Ambitious...
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced yesterday that the company will partner with First Solar to build 1,300-acre, 280-megawatt solar energy farm in Monterey, California… “We know at Apple that climate change...
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China Solar Power Surges: Leaves Entire World Behind
China issued an update on its solar progress this week and made every other solar-seeking country around the world feel kind of pathetic… The National Energy Board said 5.04 GW was installed in the...
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Factory Of The Future’ Opens On Chicago’s South Side
by Joseph Erbentraut: This week Chicago’s historic Pullman district saw its first new factory open in more than 30 years… But the 150,000-square-foot plant, where San Francisco-based Method Products...
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This Is The World’s Most Efficient Solar Electricity System, Swedish...
A new efficiency world record of 34 percent has been set… A Swedish technology company has installed a new solar electricity generation system in South Africa’s sun-soaked Kalahari desert, saying it’s...
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How Nanomaterials Can Help Make Fuel From Sunlight
by Mike Orcutt: Researchers say combining bacteria with nanoscale semiconductors opens a new path toward efficient artificial photosynthesis… Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say...
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Solar Cells That Work On Cloudy Days Just Hit A Record-Breaking 22.1% Efficiency
by Fiona MacDonald: Black silicon solar cells are now real contenders… There’s been plenty of good news about solar power lately – not only are more governments around the world using it more and more,...
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Climate Plan May Transform U.S. Power
by Bobby Magill: More efficient cars, trucks and airplanes. Less-polluting electric power plants.So many solar and wind farms that no transcontinental road trip in an electric car could take place...
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Giant Artificial City Being Constructed To Test Future Technology
by Kristan T. Harris: Self driving cars, drones, robots, smart grid technology, and new wireless communication technology—what will all of these developments mean for us? A technology development...
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12 Reasons Why Solar Is Having an Explosive Year
by Rhone Resch: With a majority of Americans considering solar power to be their number one energy choice, it’s no wonder more households than ever before are going solar. Today, GTM Research and...
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Leading US Solar Power City In 2014 May Shock You
by Pete Danko: It wasn’t Honolulu, or Los Angeles, or Austin, or Phoenix or San Jose. No, the U.S. city that installed more solar power than any other in 2014 was Indianapolis? Yep. Indianapolis added...
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A Fully Transparent Solar Cell That Could Make Every Window A Power Source
by Jamie Lendio: Back in August 2014, researchers at Michigan State University have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your...
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California’s “Grand Experiment” in Climate Policy Is Working
by Jorge Madrid: Sometimes we need to look back in order to see the road forward. Whenever I reflect on the success of California’s climate policies, I like to hop in my time machine and dial it all...
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James Cameron Has Created Giant Solar Flowers That Track The Sun
by Fiona MacDonald: Serious flower power… Avatar director James Cameron is no stranger to taking on big projects. Not only has he recreated an extraterrestrial world and a 1912 cruise ship for his...
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1.3 Billion Africans Don’t Have Electricity. Akon Has A Plan To Cut That In...
by Lauren C. Williams: It’s “a no-brainer.” That’s how hip-hop and R&B artist and producer Akon described using solar energy to bring power to hundreds of millions of Africans. The Missouri-born...
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How Solar Power Is Learning To Share: The Rapid Growth Of Community Solar...
by Ari Phillips: For much of the recent rise of solar power, the industry has been divided in two: distributed rooftop solar, and utility-scale solar parks… According to a new report from GTM Research,...
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Two Giant Israeli Solar Plants Will Soon Provide Nearly 2 Percent Of The...
by Ari Phillips: On Sunday, Israel inked a $1 billion deal to build what will become the second 121-megawatt solar power plant under construction on a swath of country’s southern Negev desert. When...
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Germany Just Got 78 Percent Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources
by Ari Phillips: On Saturday, July 25, Germany set a new national record for renewable energy by meeting 78 percent of the day’s electricity demand with renewables sources, exceeding the previous...
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