Tag: Solar
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Solar Powered Garage Garners Green Mountain College a $50,000 E2 Energy to Educate Grant
Students who participated in last semester’s Renewable Energy and Ecological Design (REED) at Green Mountain College (GMC) have designed solar-powered garage that won them a $50,000 grant to build it from the E2 Energy to Educate program sponsored by the Exelon Company, Constellation. The structure, which they have named after the Welsh sun goddess, “Olwen…
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KYOCERA and ProVision Solar Help Auto Businesses in Hawai’i Say Aloha to Renewable Energy
Kyocera Solar Inc. announced today that it supplied Kyocera solar modules to ProVision Solar that will power a total of eight auto businesses on the Big Island of Hawai’i, making it one of the greenest enterprises on the island.
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New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
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Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon Team Ready for Radiant House
The fences are up, the steel is on its way, and the bamboo construction beams are taking shape—the 2013 SCU Solar Decathlon team is ready to break ground on the Radiant House. The students will build the solar powered home on campus before hauling the house to Irvine in October for the first Solar Decathlon…
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Solar Array Atop IKEA NJ Distribution Center Now Complete
This installation represents the 37th completed solar project for IKEA in the U.S., with two more locations underway, making the eventual U.S. solar presence of IKEA nearly 90 percent of its U.S. locations with a total generation of 38 MW. IKEA owns and operates each of its solar PV energy systems atop its buildings –…