Sungevity, based in California and known for its home solar products and services, recently announced its international launch into Holland. While Sungevity has expanded across the U.S. into various states, this will be the first time it is crossing abroad. In …
Category: Photovoltaics
From Guest Blogger Carolina: Changing Lives Via Clean Energy
As solar companies strive to provide consumers with the sun’s renewable energy, they too are doing their part to help those in need. Many U.S. solar companies have reached out to the third world in effort to provide them with …
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Tagged with: Africa, alternative energy, clean energy, green energy, grid, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar panels, solar power
By Guest-Blogger Don: Wanted, People Who Can Grow a Company by 8% (per month)
I was giving a speech earlier this month about Energy Security, and while preparing the speech came upon some stark realizations about electrical generation in the US: 1) Solar is equivalent to an insignificant rounding error for electrical generation in …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, green energy, Renewable Energy, solar, solar energy, solar panels, solar power
[The Vector] Solar Electric Makes Advances – SEPA Report
The 4th annual Solar Electric Power Association’s (SEPA) ranking have been recently published. SEPA tracks and analyzes solar electicity markets in the U.S. The growth measured in the last year has been impressive: the 2010 top ten ranked utilities integrated …
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Bringing Renewable Energy to Island Nations
I just received an interesting phone call. Chris Mason, renewable energy contractor in Anguilla (Caribbean) called to discuss my work in Bermuda and understand how it might apply to his country a thousand miles south. Mason speaks in a calm, …
Bringing Electric Power to the Third World
In this short video, MIT Professor of Energy Dan Nocera makes several interesting points about bringing electric power to the third world using solar energy and fuel cells. His analysis of how much energy will be required by the year …
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[The Vector] Clean Energy News from Around the Country: GE Goes Solar
On April 7th, General Electric (GE) announced it was purchasing PrimeStar Solar Inc., a thin-film solar panel manufacturer based in Colorado. GE also announced that it would build the nation’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant. The thin-film products developed by PrimeStar …
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New Jersey Power Poles to be Outfitted with Solar Panels
In a phone conversation with my mother just now, we talked about this article in today’s New York Times: a pending project whereby 200,000+ power poles in New Jersey will be outfitted with solar panels. Apparently, residents are dismayed about the …
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[The Vector] Consumer Attitudes Revealed in Latest Solar Survey
San Jose State University and SolarTech conducted a study recently in Silicon Valley to understand consumer attitudes toward solar energy and solar power for home use. Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County) is considered a bell-weather county in a state that …
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[The Vector] Sahara Could Export Electricity to Europe in 5 Years
DESERTEC, a $496 billion project to generate solar electricity in the Sahara Desert could be exporting electricity to Europe in five years, according to European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, following a meeting with energy ministers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, …
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