▬▬ NEWS & INFORMATION ▬▬ It's 2010, We should all be driving cars powered by the Sun.
SOURCE: MSNBC
“Will a Silicon Valley solar company be responsible for putting solar panels on the White House? Will we ever see solar panels on the White House again?
Those questions occur when one reads the story of Jimmy Carter and his White House solar panels on ConsumerEnergyReport.com.
The story goes that Carter put the panels up in [...]
SOURCE: renewableenergyworld.com
“The solar industry is going through a rocky period of change due to the economic crisis. This restructuring is most evident in cash-strapped states, where legislators and regulators are exploring how to move beyond solar programs that rely on traditional rebates funded by tax payers.
Changes to these programs are causing some turmoil in the [...]
SOURCE: businesstravelworld.com
“IHG is to roll out an online tool that could help hotels in its 3,000 strong portfolio reduce energy use by up to 25%. Called Green Engage, the system allows general managers to compare their energy use with hotels of similar size around the world and suggests measures that hotels can take to reduce [...]
SOURCE: dallasnews.com
“The Lone Star State’s capital city may soon be tapping into some serious solar power.
Austin’s city electric utility wants to set aside 300 acres it owns for a solar array that would be built and owned by San Francisco-based Gemini Solar Development Co. Austin Energy would be the exclusive client and pay $10 million [...]
SOURCE: USA Today
“Alternative energy is taking it on the chin this recession, with solar and wind developers canceling projects and laying off workers. But a far more obscure slice of the energy sector is hotter than ever: the electricity grid.
How hot?
President Obama has made modernizing the nation’s vast power network a key piece of his [...]
SOURCE: explorernews.com
“A near-perfect confluence of events makes the desert Southwest one of the nation’s most vulnerable areas to climate change, the scientist said.
High growth and prolonged drought have put the region, especially Arizona, “in the bullseye in the U.S.,” University of Arizona scientist Jonathan Overpeck, a climate change expert, told a gathering of his peers, [...]
SOURCE: WSJ
“By all accounts, the initial meeting Wednesday between the new president and a tech-dominated group of corporate CEOs was a sober affair. But that’s not the tone that stuck with Michael Splinter, chief executive of Applied Materials.
The thirteen executives were hosted in the Roosevelt room in the White House, Splinter says. After a few [...]
SOURCE: thenational.ae
“Solar power can have a funny effect on people.
Take the Prince of Orange, for example, who was a keynote speaker at last week’s future energy summit in Abu Dhabi.
He used his leading spot under the limelight in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander [...]
SOURCE: pittsburghlive.com
“Pittsburgh’s solar-power experiment will begin with a hot shower.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced today the city will install a solar-fed hot water tank in a city firehouse by fall — the first of what he hopes will be many sun-powered upgrades to lower the city’s bulging energy costs.
“It will be kind of a trial run,” [...]
SOURCE: telegraph.co.uk
“”To accelerate the creation of a clean energy economy, we will double our capacity to generate alternative sources of energy like wind, solar, and biofuels over the next three years,” he said.
“We’ll begin to build a new electricity grid that lay down more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines to convey this new energy [...]