Tag: Solar Power
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Buffet Bets Big On Big Solar
Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy has finalized its purchase of First Solar’s Topaz Solar Farm in California—the first solar farm in the company’s portfolio.
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Giant Solar Power Towers Sprout Like Weeds
While the Australian company EnviroMission dreams of a gigantic solar updraft tower project in Arizona, Hyperion Energy has the same high hopes—in Australia.
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California Roll: Clean Energy Surged In 2011
California says its three big investor-owned utilities added a record 839 MW of clean energy capacity in 2011, and were up to 17 percent renewables in 2010.
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Solar Space Tugboat Considered By NASA Crowd
NASA’s goal is to develop a solar-powered “space tugboat” that can ferry satellites from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).