DOE Awards $2 Billion Loans to Double Concentrating Solar Capacity in the US

June 17, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

Photo: . 2 Concentrating Solar Project in California Google isn’t the only one in . The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced new conditional loan guarantees that should inject about $2 billion into two large-scale solar thermal projects…. … Source: DOE Awards $2 Billion Loans to Double Concentrating Solar Capacity in the US.

Utilities Continue to Drive Solar Expansion

June 17, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

By Mark Pabst, San Francisco Utilities continue to be a major driving force behind the expansion of solar generated electric power in the United States according to a recently released report by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). In 2010 the ten utilities with the highest number of megawatts generated collectively accounted for 561 megawatts […]

Groups sue to stop California solar plant

June 3, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

LOS ANGELES – Two conservation groups and a California resident have sued to stop construction of a SunPower Corp solar power plant, saying the project would harm the rural area’s wildlife, air quality and natural beauty. Sa… Source: Groups sue to stop California solar plant.

San Diego solar factory moves to Tijuana

May 27, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

A Spanish firm which once employed 130 people assembling solar panels in Otay Mesa has moved manufacturing to Tijuana…. Source: San Diego solar factory moves to Tijuana.

Cash incentives for renewables are twice as effective as tax credits

May 26, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

by John Farrell. This post originally appeared on , a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s . Using the tax code rather than cash incentives to support wind and solar power costs ratepayers significantly more. because project developers were selling their federal tax credits to third parties at 50 to 70 cents on the […]

How are Homeowners and Businesses Paying for Solar Energy Systems?

May 23, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

Editor’s Note: This entry has been cross-posted from . We commonly think that the sun provides free energy. That’s true, but photovoltaic panels and other equipment to harvest that energy aren’t free. The question is: how are they paid for? U.S. residential and commercial solar system customers have historically paid the old-fashioned way: with cash. […]

California solar has a sunny week

April 13, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, Solar Energy, solar power

by Todd Woody. It’s only Tuesday but two milestones have been reached this week in the long march toward a carbon-free future. On Monday, BrightSource Energy became the first solar power plant developer to complete the financing of a large-scale project in two decades. The United States Department of Energy finalized a $1.6 billion loan […]

Solar eclipsing the grid?

March 25, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, solar power

The electric grid wasn’t designed for a million solar roofs. It was designed to work with big power plants, substations and wires leading to every house and business and for the power in those wires to flow from the generation plant to the customer. But what happens when the customer is the generation plant? And […]

SoCal Edison (Still) Offers the Best Solar Rebate in California

March 21, 2011January 23, 2017 seowebsites Solar California, solar power, Solar Rebates

If you’re a residential customer of Southern California Edison (SCE), you’ve got more than SoCal’s sunny days to be happy about. You’re also sitting on what is arguably the state’s best solar rebate. Here’s the deal. In 2006, the state’s public utilities commission launched the California Solar Initiative (CSI), a multi-year program aimed at providing […]

California Utilities Do Not Meet 2010 Renewable Energy Goal

March 18, 2011 seowebsites Solar California, solar power

In 2002, California adopted a Renewable Portfolio Standard which required that 20% of California‘s electricity come from renewable resources by 2010. On top of all of this, in November of 2008, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California Executive Order S-14-08 which requires “all retail sellers of electricity [to] serve 33 percent of their load with […]

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DOE Awards $2 Billion Loans to Double Concentrating Solar Capacity in the US

Utilities Continue to Drive Solar Expansion

Groups sue to stop California solar plant

San Diego solar factory moves to Tijuana

Cash incentives for renewables are twice as effective as tax credits

How are Homeowners and Businesses Paying for Solar Energy Systems?

California solar has a sunny week

Solar eclipsing the grid?

SoCal Edison (Still) Offers the Best Solar Rebate in California

California Utilities Do Not Meet 2010 Renewable Energy Goal

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