Akeena, PG&E Supply Power for Schwarzenegger’s Inaugural
Akeena Solar and PG&E received some great exposure last week by helping to provide 100 percent carbon neutral...
Solar & Renewable Energy
Commercial and industrial operations using solar and other renewable energy sources that have minimal impact on the environment.
Responses to Wal-Mart’s Solar RFP Due Today
Wal-Mart put out an RFP last month to solar electric suppliers that could amount to a solar installation on the order of 100 megawatts of power over the next five years...
Chicago Pilots Solar Bus Shelters, Rubber Sidewalks
Chicago officials unveiled a solar-powered bus shelter and a 550-foot sidewalk made of recycled rubber this week, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses
WorldWater & Power will build a $500,000 PV system to power Allen Family Foods’ poultry growout house in Laurel, Delaware. Growout houses take day-old chicks and raise them to maturity. The poultry industry is looking to solar as a cost effective, sustainable energy source for the future of growout contractors ... Read more »
Palo Alto Named Green Power Community
Palo Alto is the first city in California, and the fourth city in the country, to be certified as a Green Power Community by the EPA. Palo Alto qualified for this certification with a two percent green power purchase collectively as a community. “The City’s efforts should serve as an ... Read more »
Solar Entech Readies Power Conditioning Software
Solar EnerTech says it is looking forward to the sales and marketing boost it will get from the one-year extension of the solar ITC in H.R. 6111. The act extends the 30 percent solar energy investment tax credit for homeowners and businesses for one additional year, through to the end of ... Read more »
Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills
Colorado, with Democrats in control of the governor’s office as well as the state Senate and House, has a good chance of signing a dozen or so renewable energy bills – three times the number introduced last year – into law, Rocky Mountain News reports. According to the article, the following ... Read more »
GM Reports, Again, that Energy Use is Down
General Motors is once again pointing out that it has cut its energy use by 25 percent and added solar and landfill gas as energy sources at its North American facilities over the past five years, Associated Press reports (via the Houston Chronicle). According to our story, and a press release, ... Read more »
BP, OCR Offer Solar Roofing Package
Northern California’s largest roofing company, Old Country Roofing, and BP Solar have signed an agreement to offer more than 100 homebuilding companies and homeowners turn-key solar roofing. Eighty-seven percent of all new solar powered homes in the US are built in California. Beginning next month, OCR will offer a complete solar roofing package that ... Read more »
Multi-Site Manager Monitors Remote Solar Sites
Fat Spaniel Technologies has launched TriStar Multi-Site Manager, a product designed to allow operators of multiple remote solar power systems the ability to evaluate the health of all off-grid sites. Sites needing attention are highlighted, and users can drill down into the webview to evaluate the fault or error conditions ... Read more »
Motorola Powers BSTs with Wind, Solar
According to tests by Motorola, a combination of solar cells and wind turbines can generate 1,200 watts in a continual cycle to drive a mid-sized remote GSM Base Station (BTS) and support a microwave backhaul installation. Motorola says that powering BTS sites in both developed and emerging markets is a challenge ... Read more »
Merryvale Vineyard’s Production Facility Goes Solar
Napa Valley’s Merryvale Vineyards has installed a 277kW solar electric system for Starmont Winery that will generate enough clean electricity each day to power 78 average homes. Installed by SolarCraft Services, the new system will spare the air nearly 473 tons of harmful greenhouse gases annually. Over the next 30 years, the air ... Read more »