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 [...]
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 [...]
Dow Chemical Co. through their Dow Solar Solutions are putting a great deal of their resources, scientific research and money into the development of the development of solar shingles.
Thermoplastic solar roof shingles will use thin film photovoltaic technology to produce a product that could be available to the North American public by 2011. Dow hopes [...]
An innovative solar farm in St George, Utah is now nearing completion, due to start commercial electricity production in December. The photovoltaic system, which has been dubbed SunSmart, will consist of 466 solar panels and will be the first community owned solar renewable energy concept of its kind.
The concept involves homeowners to buy shares, costing [...]
