Tag: News
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Guest Post: PVC’s Resilience and Its Foreseeable Future
In the 1960s Dustin Hoffman movie, “The Graduate,” a man hoisting a drink at a cocktail party declares to a business associate: “The future’s in plastic.” As time marched on, it turned out these words were absolutely correct, whether or not you happen to like the material, and the chemical formulations that make the material…
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Standard Solar Installs Solar Array for Elementary School
The University Park Elementary School will become the first Prince George’s County public school to host a rooftop solar array. The solar project, scheduled for completion later this month, is a partnership between the Town of University Park, Md., and […] — Solar Builder magazine
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NuScale Power’s Small Modular Reactor Chosen as Preferred Technology by Western Initiative for Nuclear
Effectiveness, cost and safety issues will be part of upcoming Western Initiative for Nuclear (WIN) research project concerning the deployment of small modular reactors. Read the following press announcement. Broad Coalition of Western States to Study Demonstration and Deployment of SMRs NuScale Power, LLC, announced today the launching of the Western Initiative for Nuclear (WIN) —a broad, multi-western…
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Pacific Controls Partners with Berkeley Lab to Develop Technology to Reduce Energy Usage in Buildings
Pacific Controls (PCS), the leading provider of ICT enabled managed services and converged engineering solutions for buildings and infrastructure projects globally, has partnered with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (Berkeley Lab), to develop technology that aims to reduce energy use in buildings.
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Energy Storage Systems Will Total 22 GW from 2013 to 2023
More than 1,300 GW of wind and solar power generation capacity are expected to come online in the next 10 years, creating an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid — particularly in key markets within North America, Western Europe […] — Solar Builder magazine