Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power

Texas has long been home to Big Oil companies that specialize in extracting petroleum from hard-to-reach places. Now the hip college town of Austin is vying to become the epicenter of a potentially giant market for carbon-free electricity generated by the hot Texas sun. The rest of Texas may follow, if the state legislature passes incentives that will... 

SCHOTT Solar PV, Inc. and Consolidated Solar Technologies Inaugurate Photovoltaic Solar Installation at Belen High School

SCHOTT Solar PV, Inc. (SCHOTT Solar) and Consolidated Solar Technologies (CST) today inaugurated a 50kW photovoltaic (PV) solar power system at Belen High School. The system was funded through a grant system initiated last year by Governor Bill Richardson using funds from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Belen is one of 15 school... 

Wind To Power System Announces Service Agreement with Global Energy Services

Wind To Power Systems Inc. (W2PS), a leading provider of systems that integrate renewable power into the electric grid, announces an agreement with Global Energy Services (GES) as the authorized factory service provider for W2PS products installed in North America. Global Energy Services is the leading operator in engineering, installation and maintenance... 

SunPower Upgrades its Solar Monitoring System for the Residential Market

SunPower Corp., a manufacturer of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced an upgrade to its SunPower® Monitoring System that allows SunPower dealer/partners to remotely monitor the performance of their customers’ high-efficiency solar power systems. The remote monitoring feature allows for rapid troubleshooting... 

Crews Begin Hanging Panels on Largest Solar Array in Martin County

The largest solar energy array in Martin County began construction a little over 4 weeks ago after the town was able to quickly issue permits to the solar energy contractor, Abundant Energy Inc. (http://www.abundantenergy.com). Though South Florida solar energy companies have been making little headway in the commercial energy market with the exception... 

Business and Environmental Groups Unite in Support of Climate Legislation

Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe and Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances G. Beinecke today urged Midwest business leaders to support comprehensive climate legislation. In a panel discussion at the Economic Club of Chicago, Rowe and Beinecke said economy-wide cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is essential... 

Solarbrook Announces “Blowdown Recovery System” Design Phase Completion

Solarbrook Water and Power Corporation’s CEO announced the completion of the design and prototype study phase of a water recovery system to be used on cooling towers. “The system will recover water traditionally sent to the sewers, and will remove dissolved solids, and contaminates which result in lost cooling efficiency within the cooling... 

Simon Completes Solar Panel Installation at The Shops at Mission Viejo

Simon Property Group, Inc., the country’s largest owner, developer and manager of high quality retail real estate, has just last month completed the largest solar installation by a mall owner in the U.S. Simon Property Group entered into a power purchase agreement with Element Markets, a Houston-based developer of clean energy, for the output... 

Suntech and Standard Solar Reach 5 Megawatt Solar Panel Supply Agreement

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, and Standard Solar, Inc. are looking forward to powering cleaner energy solutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic U.S. under a new agreement by which Suntech will supply up to 5 megawatts of photovoltaic solar panels to the Maryland-based solar developer... 

Grundfos Pumps and SunPower Dedicate 1.1 Megawatt Solar Power System

Grundfos Pumps Corporation and SunPower Corporation dedicated a 1.1 megawatt solar power system at the Grundfos facility in Fresno. The system features a ground-mounted, high-efficiency SunPower sun tracking system on a 7.5-acre site. It is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions generated at the site by almost 2.4 million pounds annually, which...