
Calif. bill would boost renewable energy
Sacramento (UPI) Mar 12, 2012 - A bill in California would allow cities to designate areas as renewable energy zones and redirect property taxes to renewable energy projects, its sponsor says.
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Sacramento (UPI) Mar 12, 2012 - A bill in California would allow cities to designate areas as renewable energy zones and redirect property taxes to renewable energy projects, its sponsor says.
Mar 12, 2012

Wuxi, China (AFP) March 11, 2012 - In the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi, home to the world's biggest maker of solar panels, labour is so cheap that workers carry out jobs by hand while machines designed to perform the same tasks sit idle.
Mar 11, 2012

Conklin NY (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - SunMaxx Solar is pleased to announce that the solar industry leader has launched a custom Glycol XT. SunMaxx Solar's custom solar-formula Glycol XT is a 50/50 mixture of 1,3-Propanediol and water.
Mar 9, 2012

Guildford, England (UPI) Mar 9, 2012 - The Summer Olympics could be crippled by a solar storm far more potent than the one currently wearing away at Earth's magnetic field, a British physicist said.
Mar 9, 2012

Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - Renusol America introduces PV America West attendees to solar mounting solutions that are bringing attention to job creation in the United States at a time when jobs are at the top of America's poli
Mar 9, 2012

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - Organic solar cells may be a step closer to market because of measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where a te
Mar 9, 2012

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - Leading concentrating solar power companies, Abengoa, BrightSource Energy, and Torresol Energy have announced the formation of the Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA). The new organization is
Mar 9, 2012

Fort Collins CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 - Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association (PVREA), Ft. Collins, CO and the Clean Energy Collective (CEC), Carbondale, CO have entered into an agreement to launch PVREA's first community solar program
Mar 9, 2012

Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2012 - A U.S. satellite giving the only advance warning of incoming high-energy solar particles is getting old and is possibly on its last legs, researchers say.
Mar 9, 2012

Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2012 - NASA models using data from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) have now provided more information about the two CMEs associated with t
Mar 8, 2012

Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2012 - A massive solar storm hitting Earth is having less impact on satellites, power grids and communications than some had feared, U.S. space weather experts say.
Mar 8, 2012

San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 - In an effort to continue the San Diego region's rapid deployment of residential and commercial solar power installations, CleanTECH San Diego and the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) are co-h
Mar 7, 2012

Red Bank NJ (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 - In a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Kodak's Eastman Business Park, Natcore Technology Inc. has formally opened its Research and Development Center in Rochester, NY. The Center is located in Building 308
Mar 7, 2012

Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 - Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold. Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth. It might be the grea
Mar 7, 2012

Washington (AFP) March 7, 2012 - A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years, space weather experts said Wednesday.
Mar 7, 2012

Valley Forge PA (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 - With multiple innovative photovoltaic roofing products on the market, CertainTeed Corporation continues to take an ambitious foray into the solar roofing industry. In addition to a powerful pr
Mar 7, 2012