As the residential solar market matures in the Southern US, investors should be asking themselves which solar outfits are on the verge of growing into a project developer, capable of delivering big systems to the utilitie
Category: Photovoltaics
[The Vector] Winter Wonderland and Solar Panels
Guest Post from Wayne Mackey: A Case for Solar Photovoltaics Today
Systems can last for 40 or more years. By going solar, you can lock in your current and future energy costs in at today’s lower rates. The first crude modern solar photovoltaic Solar cells were created in the Bell Telephone …
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[The Vector] Solar Gets Serious in the United Arab Emirates
The Emirates Solar Industry Association was launched in early January 2011. The association is bringing together industry players in photovoltaics, concentrating solar power and solar thermal as well as those involved in supplying and subsidiary roles, like engineering or glass …
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Guest Post from Wayne Mackey: How I Reduced Home Energy Consumption by 80%
On December 23, 2009 my wife Diane and I installed a 5.4Kwh PV Array on the roof of our home at 920 Cypress Street, Chambersburg, PA. Prior to our “going solar” we had reduced our home’s energy use by 65% …
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[The Vector] 200MW Solar Updraft Power Plant at Application Stage
The groundworks for the construction of the world’s first commercial solar updraft tower may be little more than two years away. Solar updraft towers use the power that lifts hot air balloons into the air to generate electricity. The Australian …
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[The Vector] Italian Solar Developers Reshape and Change Gear
Rete Rinnovabile, Italy’s largest solar power generation company, was acquired in October by private equity group Terra Firma for €670 million ($930 million, according to a report in the Financial Times. The deal gives Terra Firma a 10% stake in …
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[The Vector] Hermann Scheer – Continued
[The Vector] Hermann Scheer – Continued
From “CLIMATE ACTION 2009” for the UN Conference in Copenhagen In this talk, Hermann Scheer debunks the myth of renewables being too expensive and explains why we must keep developing clean tech, describing how each affected industry can make the …
