A new photovoltaic solar farm has recently begun producing electricity near Lexington, North Carolina. The Davidson County Solar Farm is a project that has been developed by SunEdison and Golden Crescent Investment Group and they have entered a 20 year agreement with Duke Energy who will buy the electricity from the farm. The solar energy [...]
Solar energy is still a developing energy with technological advances continually being made to make it more cost efficient and more abundant. Currently it is still a form of electricity that is only used by a minority of households, either as self-contained rooftop installations or on the grid direct from a solar power plant.
There are [...]
We have heard the arguments against solar power in the past, particularly the one about how much more expensive it is compared to electricity generated by more traditional fossil fuels. Well how does $1 billion per megawatt sound? Since the 1960s the prospect of generating solar energy from space has been on the drawing board [...]
In order to justify why there is so much technological and monetary effort going into solar power and the development of new solar energy facilities it might be worthwhile going over a few of the significant benefits that are achieved from using solar energy. Some of these may seem obvious, some may be debatable and [...]
In October 2008 it was announced that a solar power plant was planned at the Fort Irwin base in the Mojave Desert in California. This installation is to have a capacity of 500MW, originally generated from thermal solar power.
Further news has just been released regarding the project and a couple of development partners have been announced for the project, [...]
A planned solar development expected to be worth in the vicinity of $180 million has been given the go-ahead by the Austin City Council who has authorized Austin Energy to seek an agreement with a San Francisco company.
The Gemini Solar Development Co. will build a 300-acre solar array in Webberville and it will have the [...]
