Solar-energy cell sales also fell due to weak demand in Europe amid its financial crisis.
Put a solar cell at the focus of that mirror and you have an inexpensive solar-energy collector.
Considering the scale of the proposed towers, the environmental review may receive more significant scrutiny than other solar-energy projects.
The scale proposed for the Arizona projects would be a step-change in scale for these types of solar-energy projects.
Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solar Century, a leading UK solar-energy company, also gave a cautious welcome to the new research.
Saudi Arabia is the newest and hottest solar power market to attract the attention of emerging leaders in the solar-energy space.
He estimates that 3M makes 65, 000 products, ranging from Scotch tape to film for solar-energy panels, dental braces and dog chews.
Rebates: Some states, and even cities and utilities, offer rebates that cover part of the purchase price of a solar-energy system installation.
The solar-energy system for our hypothetical home in Brooklyn paid for itself in just five years, thanks in part to large local incentives.
One of the government incentives Mr. Reid supported for the renewable-energy industry was a 30% investment tax credit for companies in the solar-energy business.
EnviroMission, a solar-energy start-up based in Melbourne, Australia, said today it is moving forward with plans to construct two 200 MW solar-power facilities in Arizona.
"Kohl's also has the largest solar-energy program of any retailer in the world, " says expert Marianne Wilson, editor in chief of Chain Store Age magazine.
While there were clouds over much of Wall Street on Friday, the solar-energy industry was having a good day thanks to analyst upgrades and expansion deals.
Perhaps the project did not include enough solar-energy panels and wind turbines in the marketing materials, which are a de facto pre-condition to coverage for many publications in the cleantech space.
The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.
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In mid-July, the department's Mineral Management Services, which controls the mineral rights on federal lands, asserted its jurisdiction over renewable energy projects--wind, wave, solar and tidal energy--on federal waters in the Outer Continental Shelf.
The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
Non-GAAP Solar Energy segment revenue declined year-over-year and sequentially due to lower solar project sales.
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In 2007, Chevron-Texaco's venture capital arm bought significant stakes in two solar energy companies: BrightSource Energy, a developer of utility-scale solar plants, and Konarka Technologies, a developer of photovoltaic materials.
He has devoted his entire 30-year career to solar thermal energy, a century-old idea that was dismissed as quixotic in the early 1990s, after oil and gas prices collapsed.
Not only is this activity funded privately, it also generates additional tax revenues to state, local and federal coffers instead of losing tax payer money on heavily subsidized solar and wind-energy projects.
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Similarly, solar thermal energy--which harnesses the heat of the sun to generate steam-powered turbines--consumes more than 2, 600 liters of water per megawatt hour, 200 liters more than coal-powered generation needs to produce the same energy.
In solar news, Morocco is on its way to becoming a world-class solar energy producer, as the country recently announced plans to harvest 14 percent of its energy from the sun by 2020.
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Prizes could be used to increase energy efficiency, cost-effectively convert solar energy to electricity, waste reduction efforts, and drive advancements on any number of environmental issues.
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And we have to have other forms of renewable energy - wind energy, solar energy.
Silicon, the major raw material used in the manufacture of solar panels, requires an energy-intensive process to turn it into solar-grade silicon.
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The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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Two other deals that had been expected, from aluminum processor Aleris Corp. and solar-technology company BrightSource Energy Inc.
Solar-thermal company BrightSource Energy Inc. pulled its high-profile IPO citing market conditions.
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