Last week, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a partial loan guarantee for a $1.3 billion loan has been approved for the Caithness Shepherds Flat project, a 845-megawatt wind farm located in eastern Oregon
The Clean Energy Council’s (CEC) Clean Energy Australia 2010 report was released a short time ago and states that more rooftop solar power was installed in Australia between January and October this year than for the entire decade previous.
The latest report from the American Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), in conjunction with GTM Research, looks at the latest growth figures of the entire solar industry across the US and should make for sunny reading for installers and manufacturers of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in that country.
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced that large tracts of land across America’s West will become dedicated “solar energy zones” that would be set aside for future utility-scale solar power projects.
SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects, has received approval from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build and operate of the Rice Solar Energy Project.
The U.S. Army is running field trials on a variety of flexible, portable, lightweight solar-powered tents and shade structures.
The Northern Territory’s Power and Water Corporation has signed an agreement to purchase power from a 1MW solar farm in Alice Springs for the next 20 years.
According to a Bloomberg report, Spanish firm Acciona Energy has pulled out of Australia’s $1.5 billion Solar Flagships program.
Sunpower has announced the inauguration of AUO SunPower Sdn. Bhd., the company’s joint venture solar cell fabrication facility in Malaysia with AU Optronics Corp.
Researchers from the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, along with colleagues from the universities of Nankai in China and Utrecht, have announced their success in producing a microchip incorporating a solar cell.
