Even when it does, Potovsky still sees a business case for schools to go solar.
Potovsky says schools throughout the state, as well as in New Jersey, are taking advantage of energy savings and incentives to go solar and use the energy savings to offset education budget cuts.
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Looking to the future, the state government of Rajasthan and the central government in Delhi have decided to go for cleaner solar power, even though, on present figures, the electricity it produces costs three times as much as that produced by coal.
After all, why go green with a solar array if the electricity is just going to fly out a drafty door.
The wild card, though, are the solar panels, i.e. the assets in the asset-backed securities, as some solar panel makers go bankrupt and others teeter on the edge.
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Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint warned that "many firms currently providing solar are about to go to the wall".
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First Solar expects the market to go through a period of adjustment, which may last through Q3 2011.
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Now a research report released Tuesday says another 180 solar panel makers will likely go out of business or be bought by 2015.
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Despite fewer householders installing solar panels in the past year, more solar developments have been given the go-ahead by local authorities in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
After utilizing all eight watts of lithium-ion battery power, recharge the Switch 8 on the go with the portable Nomad 3.5 Solar Panel in about six hours or from any USB source in less than four hours.
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He says he is even readying a proposal for a solar facility inside the contaminated no-go zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Mr. Li said in an interview that he wanted banks to cut off loans to all but the strongest solar panel companies and let the rest go bankrupt.
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The law of conservation of energy means that solar heat which warms the earth has to go somewhere.
So a few robots go a long way and in the end, changes how solar farms operate.
That number will certainly go up in the next few years as memc expands its solar product lineup.
Today, however, Russia is more likely to partner with the US and other countries to go beyond the shared International Space Station and deeper into the solar system.
SolarCity postponed its closely watched initial public offering on Tuesday, the day the Silicon Valley solar installer was to price the IPO set to go to market on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The delicate, single-seat Solar Impulse flies around 40 mph and can't go through clouds.
Today, he says that 29 utility scale solar, wind and geothermal projects have been approved to go on federal lands out west, all of which would provide 6, 500 megawatts of electricity.
Their solar-powered light had become a serious endeavor that needed to go beyond the classroom.
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In another financing solution, Simpa Networks provides solar power in rural India on a pay-as-you-go service through mobile payments.
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Because the physical processes that go on in the rings are probably similar to what went on in the early Solar System and we've got this incredible opportunity to observe those processes happening in front of our eyes.
Soon prison owners like Corrections Corp. of America may go REIT, as will energy-related property owners, owners of sports venues and solar farms.
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SolarCity, which has said it plans to go public and has filed a confidential IPO registration statement, will install, own and maintain the solar arrays, financing the projects through debt-equity funds it taps to pay for panels for customers who lease their photovoltaic systems.
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The global solar market has been beset by a glut of solar panels in the past two years, causing the prices to crash and many manufactures to go out of business or incur significant financial losses.
This badboy sports three solar panels on the back for charging all of your gadgets while you're on the go, and all you've got to do to win it is come up with the best entry for our Engadget in Public contest.
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Successful existing Russian brands such as Kaspersky Lab and Nitol Solar suggest that the spirit of entrepreneurialism exists in Russia and that Russian brands have the potential to go global.
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