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Japan eyes solar panels on all new buildings by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com May 24, 2011 A landmark along the Tokyo-Osaka railway, Sanyo's Solar Ark is 344 yards wide with an annual output of 530,000 kWh. (Credit: Sanyo) Struggling with a continuing nuclear crisis and strains on its power supplies, Japan is [...] News: Seattle Seahawks home to add Solyndra solar panels by Candace Lombardi, cnet.com May 18, 2011 Seattle Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin checks out a Solyndra solar array on the roof of Qwest Field. (Credit: Solyndra/Corky Trewin) The Seattle Seahawks stadium, Qwest Field Event Center, is adding solar panels to its roof. The solar [...] Solar concentrator graces university rooftop by Martin LaMonica, cnet.com April 13, 2011 Santa Clara U. has installed 60 rooftop solar collectors. (Credit: Chromasun) If concentrating sunlight works for utility-scale solar power plants, how about for heating and cooling a single building? Santa Clara University, which sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, said [...] Calif. solar plant, to be world’s largest, wins key approval by Reuters September 16, 2010 The Blythe plant will use parabolic trough technology, in which heat from mirrors generates steam that passes through turbines to create electricity. (Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management) The world’s largest solar power plant cleared an important hurdle [...] News: Spain plugs in largest solar-tower power plant by Martin LaMonica, CNET News April 28, 2009 At Abengoa Solar's facility in Spain, mirrors heat a liquid in a tower, on right, that produces steam to make up to 20 megawatts of electricity. (Credit: Abengoa) At Abengoa Solar’s facility in Spain, mirrors heat [...] Green technologies to watch by Martin LaMonica, CNET News April 21, 2009 From a technology perspective, things have changed a lot since the first Earth Days of the 1970s. After barely moving for decades, there’s been a surge in innovation in energy the past five years, fueled both by society’s growing interest in clean [...] Sempra Generation on Wednesday said it has signed a deal for the United States’ largest photovoltaic power plant, a 48-megawatt solar farm to be built by First Solar in Nevada. [...] PG&E Looks to Solar Panels in Space for Power by Celia Lamb, Sacramento Business Journal Monday, April 13, 2009 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. plans to buy solar energy from panels orbiting the earth. The company has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Solaren Corp. for 200 megawatts of solar power produced by [...] One of the world’s biggest photovoltaic projects is planned for southwest Florida. Florida Power & Light will spend $350 million to build a 75-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant at a planned city, Babcock Ranch, near Fort Myers, the company announced Thursday. [...] |
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