SolarReserve is licensing technology from the big, experienced conglomerate United Technologies that was used in a now demolished project called Solar Two, also in the Mojave.
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Imagine if we had truly committed to fostering wind and solar power two decades ago.
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The banks profit from investing in solar in two ways: They get tax advantages (the investment tax credit) as well as a single-digit rate of return.
Through a very unique concentrator design and the latest advances in semiconductor technology, we have developed a solar panel that requires two to three times less solar cell material than current solar panels.
It is an inflatable pouch that has a thin-film solar panel with two-coin cell rechargeable batteries.
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Now the solar unit has two products to sell separately: the green tag and the power.
Two solar manufacturers backed by venture capital investors, 1366 Technologies and Solopower Inc.
Also on tap are four space walks focusing on the station's two Solar Alpha Rotary Joints, which allow the solar panels to track the sun.
The second company is Abound Solar Manufacturing, which will manufacture advanced solar panels at two new plants, creating more than 2, 000 construction jobs and 1, 500 permanent jobs.
To make this possible, Walgreens will equip the new store with more than 800 roof-top solar panels, two wind turbines, geothermal wells , LED lighting and energy-efficient building materials.
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.
Papa Mau faced its own challenges, including long stretches of cloudy days that made it difficult for its two solar panels to collect enough energy to power its sensor arrays.
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President Obama announced in his weekly radio address Recovery Act conditional loan guarantee commitments to two solar companies to fund three major new solar projects in Arizona, Colorado and Indiana that will create thousands of new jobs.
Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.
Duke Energy Renewables already has two commercial solar farms in North Carolina and three nationwide.
The first two floating solar customers for an earlier, more costly iteration of Floatovoltaics were California wineries, Far Niente and Gundlach Bundschu.
This week Korean automaker Hyundai unveiled a multi-rotor flying electric car for congested cities and SolarWorld and PC-Aero announced plans to launch two new solar-powered electric airplanes at an air show in Germany.
Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), a public authority that includes 10 municipal utilities and one irrigation district in southern California, purchased an option to buy two large solar updraft towers being developed in the county of La Paz, Arizona.
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Suntech is selling the two new silicon solar panels in North and Latin America first.
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In the past two years, solar energy has become an especially hot spot in the clean energy sector.
Sharp is also coming out with a sunflower-style solar cell that swivels on two axes to track the sun.
Mr. DEAN CHENG (CNA Corporation): The Shenzhou craft is longer, it's wider, it has two sets of solar panels rather than one.
U.S. solar companies are closely managing two radical shifts in market fundamentals.
Another hypothetical scenario might have the roof, hood and trunk lid made of two layers: solar cells on top, spray-on batteries on the bottom.
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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.
On the front of each case are four two-Watt solar panels.
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Solar Millennium filed for bankruptcy earlier this month while still struggling to close the deal, which involves three solar projects in California (two of which have won regulatory approval).
Plus, the big imbalance of supply and demand for solar panels over the past two years prompted factory closures and bankruptcies, and many more manufacturers are sure to disappear over the next three years.
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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.
Solar panel prices have been falling steadily for two years now and putting pressure on panel makers to keep profitability high (but making solar ever cheaper for customers).
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