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US Concentrated Solar Power Industry receives its biggest boost yet by American DoE
One of the companies who have recently secured DoE backing with a loan guarantee is celebrating their ground-breaking ceremony today. With over $2.1bl in founding, this plant will be the largest in the world at 1GW once it is complete. However, this journey to CSP market proliferation and support has been a turbulent one! The … Continue reading
Green Jobs Are Real: German and American Solar Industry Both Employ More People Than U.S. Steel Production
Last week, Germany’s economic development agency announced similarly big news: There are now more than 100,000 workers employed in the German solar PV industry alone. Why is that so significant? The U.S. figures take into account solar jobs in PV, solar hot water and concentrating solar power; Germany is only factoring in solar PV.And as a reader over at Clean … Continue reading
Huge Growth Expected for North American Solar Industry
As Conference Committee Chair of Intersolar North America for the past three years, I witnessed the ebb and flow of policy, regulation, investments and its effect on the solar industry. The U.S. solar market has the potential to double once again in 2011, making it a contender for the world’s largest solar market by 2015. … Continue reading
Spain Seeks To Shore Up Battered Biofuels Industry
According to leading trades union CCOO, the state is about to launch a new decree that will limit foreign biofuel imports, which come in at much lower prices than the national average, making dents in local producers’ profits.The union said the Energy Ministry has agreed to launch the law in the coming weeks to help … Continue reading
The Power Grid and the Wind Industry in China: An Update
As we have pointed out on numerous occasions, Chinese wind power development is proceeding at a dizzying pace: from a total of less than 500 MW of installed capacity in 2000, China has grown to have the world’s largest installed base of wind power—nearly 45,000 MW, a 73.3 percent increase over the nearly 26,000 MW … Continue reading
Industry group supports call for Display Energy Certificates
The news feeds on this site are independently provided by Adfero Limited © and do not represent the views or opinions of the Energy Saving Trust. The call from the UK Green Building Council to make Display Energy Certificates (DECs) mandatory for non-domestic buildings has earned more support. The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers … Continue reading
Industry Leaders: SunShot’s $1 per Watt Goal Feasible
Prices still hover around $3 per watt currently, so it will take multiple breakthroughs in technology, public policy and manufacturing processes before reaching the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot goal of $1 per watt by 2017.Industry leaders say a lot can happen in six months, let alone six years, so that goal might even be … Continue reading
Certification scheme launched for ‘green gas’ industry
A new certification scheme has been launched by the Renewable Energy Association, which makes sure that ‘green gas’ is genuinely a renewable energy source. It is hoped that the Green Gas Certification Scheme (GGCS) will bring confidence to customers who receive the alternative fuel from the grid.Some of the UK’s major energy providers have signed … Continue reading
Report: U.S. solar $6 billion industry in 2010
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