To boost solar power, California in the mid-1990s offered a deal: Customers could sell back surplus electricity to local utilities. This meant an electric meter could spin both ways. On sunny days, a solar panel owner could pile up credit as the juice ...
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2012-05-21 02:09:21
By Anna Bitong annab@theacorn.com Roof work atop the Hillcrest Center, where more than 600 solar panels have been installed, will cost Thousand Oaks $400,000 more than anticipated due to faulty workmanship by a contractor, city officials said this week. read more
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2012-05-20 19:29:13
National Biodiesel Board chairman Gary Haer with the Renewable Energy Group highlighted the biodiesel industry's growth and diversity, pointing out that more than half of the lawmakers on the panel have at least one biodiesel production plant in their ...
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2012-05-20 15:54:36
When complete, the 550-megawatt (AC) project will include nearly 9 million photovoltaic panels. To mark this significant event, the first solar panel was installed by Greg Abel, chairman, president and CEO of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, ...
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2012-05-19 21:36:38
When complete, the 550-megawattAC project will include nearly 9 million photovoltaic panels. To mark this significant event, the first solar panel was installed by Greg Abel, chairman, president and CEO of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, ...
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2012-05-19 04:56:34
The solar power industry has been taking its lumps of late. First, there were national stories about the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the California-based solar panel maker that had received a $527 million loan guarantee from the federal government.
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2012-05-18 16:56:07
A GOVERNMENT body has recommended that future solar panel owners should no longer receive monetary incentives for supplying energy beyond their household or business.
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2012-05-18 10:18:08
(Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.
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2012-05-18 05:23:03
The nascent market segment has the potential to build as much as 100 gigawatts of generating capacity, 20 times the estimated growth in the mainland's solar power capacity this year, Shi told the SNEC International Photovoltaic Power Generation ...
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2012-05-17 20:29:36
Protecting US panel makers may not be the best way to promote renewable energy in the US, according to Tom Gutierrez, chief executive officer of GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT) (GTAT), a Merrimack, New Hampshire-based supplier of solar ...
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2012-05-17 18:34:29
The commission recommends closing the 25¢ feed-in tariff at the end of 2013, or when 75 megawatts of generation capacity is installed. Energy retailers would then have to offer a minimum ''fair and reasonable price'' up until the end of 2015.
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2012-05-17 16:24:24
Ministers halved subsidies for feed-in tariffs last year and were due to implement another cut in July. The Independent disclosed this month that senior figures in the solar energy industry warned they faced a crisis which jeopardised thousands of jobs ...
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2012-05-17 13:17:22
The report came after photovoltaic (PV) market research firm Solarbuzz identified North America and emerging economies in Asia as major growth markets in the second half. According to the research, in the second half of 2011, about 50 percent of global ...
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2012-05-16 22:20:38
Shares of First Solar Inc. plummeted Wednesday after investment firm Greenlight Capital Inc. disclosed that it no longer held "put" options on about 113,000 shares of the solar panel manufacturer.
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2012-05-16 16:25:47
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