Solar products maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co has announced an agreement that they have made with a local Beijing government body to construct a 10MW photovoltaic power plant. The construction is planned to begin in the second half of 2009.
A new company is going to be created, under the framework of the agreement, in […]
A new solar energy plant will be constructed in Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania by Green Energy Capital Partners. The facility will feature solar panels that track the movement of the sun across the sky and will be capable of generating a maximum capacity of 10.6MW of electricity.
The land the power plant will be sited on […]
Speaking at the recent Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, Arnulf Jaeger-Walden of the European commission’s Institute for Energy has suggested that the conditions and space in the Sahara Desert could be harnessed to supply enough energy to power Europe.
The massive solar farms could either be photovoltaic cells (unlikely) or concentrating solar power (more likely). The […]
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) have received approval to begin construction of three new solar energy centers by the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC). This will make Florida the second largest producer of utility-scale solar power in the United States.
At this stage the three projects are in the early planning stages and so there […]
Solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states have been put on hold by the Bush administration for two years. The pause has been put in place to give researchers a chance to study the environmental impact of such projects.
This has come while there are 125 outstanding applications from solar energy […]
Scientists are constantly looking for new ways to improve existing technologies. Solar energy suffers from quite a few drawbacks including the amount of energy that is lost simply through the inefficiencies of the collection method. Another obvious problem with solar energy is that the sun will only be available during the daylight hours.
Two studies conducted […]
