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11/15/2011
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11/14/2011
Solar Power Creating Jobs, Boosting Tennessee’s Economy
Tennessee’s state government may not being doing a lot in the way of offering incentives for its residents and small businesses to install renewable energy systems, but the Volunteer State’s economy is benefiting from growing use of solar power nonetheless.
11/09/2011
India's Total Solar Market to Grow From 54 MW in 2010 to more than 9 GW by 2016
Over the next five years, India will become an anchor of global solar demand, installing more than 9 GW between 2011 and 2016, according to a new report, The India Solar Market: Strategy, Players, and Opportunities from GTM Research and BRIDGE TO INDIA. The market's gigawatt-scale emergence will be spurred by the maturing National Solar Mission (NSM) and a collection of state-level incentives, as well as an influx of expertise from global solar players entering India.
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Tennessee’s Solar Future Looks Bright
The president of the Chattanooga, Tenn., company building the West Tennessee Solar Project in Haywood County says Tennessee has a lot of so far unrealized potential for large utility scale solar arrays. And Ben Fischer of Signal Energy calls the economic development potential of the large arrays “essentially manufacturing without a roof.” “Not only has the technology improved, the cost has really come down in just the equipment,” Fischer said. “The installation methods and the ways in which they achieve economies of scale on large-scale projects has made us more cost effective as well.”
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11/03/2011
India's Total Solar Market to Grow From 54 MW in 2010 to more than 9 GW by 2016
Over the next five years, India will become an anchor of global solar demand, installing more than 9 GW between 2011 and 2016, according to a new report, The India Solar Market: Strategy, Players, and Opportunities from GTM Research and BRIDGE TO INDIA. The market's gigawatt-scale emergence will be spurred by the maturing National Solar Mission (NSM) and a collection of state-level incentives, as well as an influx of expertise from global solar players entering India.
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Tennessee’s Solar Future Looks Bright
The president of the Chattanooga, Tenn., company building the West Tennessee Solar Project in Haywood County says Tennessee has a lot of so far unrealized potential for large utility scale solar arrays. And Ben Fischer of Signal Energy calls the economic development potential of the large arrays “essentially manufacturing without a roof.” “Not only has the technology improved, the cost has really come down in just the equipment,” Fischer said. “The installation methods and the ways in which they achieve economies of scale on large-scale projects has made us more cost effective as well.”
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11/03/2011
Knoxville Mayoral Candidates Stake Environmental Positions at Forum
Rogero said she already has a lifelong personal and political record of being environmentally friendly. Her family has always been environment-oriented, she said, and under her directorship of the city's Community Development Department, the agency supported a number of green and environmental-friendly projects.One week before election day, Knoxville mayoral hopefuls Madeline Rogero and Mark Padgett came to what was billed as a debate on green energy matters.Rogero said that one of the most important steps that can be taken to protect the environment is to establish adequate protection for ridgetops and hillsides.
Business Models: Creating New Market Opportunities
U.S. electric utilities are participating in a growing number of solar projects with an expanding variety of utility solar business models (USBM). These USBMs can effectively, and often uniquely, align utility interests with policies favoring solar development. Many examples benefit both utility ratepayers and utility shareholders, while helping to further develop solar markets.
Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design
Solar power may be on the rise, but solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they collect. Under the direction of a new McCormick professor, researchers have developed a new material that absorbs a wide range of wavelengths and could lead to more efficient and less expensive solar technology.
11/01/2011
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Solar Intermittency: How Big is the Problem?
Intermittency is one of the major criticisms of solar — the majority of the energy is delivered when the sun is shining brightly, but virtually none is created at night or in substantial cloud cover. How do solar developers view this issue — does it pose a huge stumbling block to current projects, or is it something that has been effectively managed? I spoke with two gentlemen, Martin Hermann, CEO of 8minutenergy Renewables and Paul Copleman, communications manager at Iberdrola Renewables, to find out more.
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Beacon Power's Bankruptcy Autopsy
The news coverage of energy storage company Beacon Power’s bankruptcy has focused on the $43 million loan it got from the same Department of Energy program that backed the bankrupt Solyndra. But at least Beacon left a beating heart in the form of a flywheel farm humming with megawatts of energy feeding into the grid today -- and making money from it.
Solyndra Shouldn’t Spur Congress to Throw Solar Industry Under the Bus
With about five years worth of e-mails and other materials to examine, political and media investigations into the Solyndra bankruptcy are far from over. Given the mood in Washington, I worry that the entire solar industry might be thrown under the bus as part of this mad rush to use the Solyndra bankruptcy to score political points or win journalistic renown. While just taking off in the U.S., the solar industry is recognized by most of the industrial world as a major economic driver. It would be extremely shortsighted for the federal government to reduce or abandon its support for the U.S. solar industry as a result of the failure of one solar manufacturing company.
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