Non-GAAP Solar Energy segment revenue declined year-over-year and sequentially due to lower solar project sales.
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So you could conceivably give your child a piece of a solar project for birthdays or holidays.
The big decline in solar panel prices is great news for solar project builders, said John Plumlee, CEO of Sunora.
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The project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, when completed in 2013 will supposedly be the largest solar project in the world.
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Today, MMA Renewable Ventures announced it had syndicated its investment in the Fetzer solar project to a publicly traded insurance company whose name it will not disclose.
This morning, Western Wind added to that progress, with the announcement that they had secured rights to a Power Purchase agreement for their Puerto Rican Yabucoa solar project.
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TruSolar is working to standardize risk assessment and develop scores for each solar project that would be similar to a credit rating, thereby streamlining the entire development and financing process.
The project joins a growing roster of giant solar farm proposals in California, which has been an epicenter for solar project development in the country thanks to its pro-solar policy and abundant sunny days.
In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.
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His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
One of the largest solar project developers in North America, First Solar, bought a small project development firm in 2007 and a fat portfolio of unfinished projects from a struggling solar company in 2009.
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The capital cost and operational details of the solar project are being handled by MMA Renewable Ventures , one of a small crop of firms that has sprung up to provide financing in the super-hot solar and renewable energy markets.
Now EDF Renewable energy is planning a new wind-solar project in the region that will be designed as a hybrid from the start and the electricity will be sold to a utility under a single power purchase agreement, according to Tholke.
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SunPower has the proven technology and experience building solar power plants around the world to deliver a well-designed solar project that will be a major contributor to helping California meet its ambitious renewable portfolio standard by the end of the decade.
In other solar news, the Westmill Solar Cooperative launched the world's largest community-owned solar project in the UK, a group of African teenagers developed a pee-powered energy generator and Tunisian company Saphon Energy unveiled a new bladeless, bird-friendly wind turbine.
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Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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The Blythe Solar Power Project is the largest of nine big solar power plants licensed over the past nine months by the California Energy Commission, and it comes with a price tag to match.
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The federal government recently announced two initiatives to open up millions of acres of public land for solar power project development, and it highlighted seven wind and solar projects on public land in a press release on Tuesday.
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Local and federal regulators approved a giant solar power project in California this week, making it one of more than a dozen giant solar farms that have secured permits and are set to rise from fairly remote corners of the state.
The Solar Impulse project's goals amount to more than breaking records and making history.
Read on to learn a bit more about the Solar Impulse project and it's future plans.
In 2009, China awarded First Solar a 2 GW solar power project in Ordos, Mongolia.
The council is also due to consider a planning application for a larger solar panel project nearby.
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Solar power project developers also have gotten better at cutting costs in other areas, such as securing permits and raising project financing.
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European countries such as Germany, Italy, France and Czech Republic have seen a boom in solar power project installations in recent years thanks to generous government subsidies.
In May, Wal-Mart Stores chose to enter into a solar pilot project through a PPA model with SunEdison at four of its stores in California and four in Hawaii.
This week saw the European Investment Bank officially announce a Mediterranean Solar Plan Project Preparation Initiative (MSP-PPI), aimed at providing a green energy framework for financing efforts across member states.
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Case in point: California recently approved construction of a 370-megawatt solar thermal project in the middle of the Mojave Desert the first such large-scale project in the U.S. in over twenty years.
PsomasFMG just completed work on what is currently the largest operating solar school project in the country, a 9.6 megawatt installation across 10 school sites within the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
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