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Solar Beaverton extends discount program for residential solar panels
Posted by: | Comments| By Christina Lent Homeowners do not need to live in Beaverton to participate in 80 percent-off residential solar systems. It's not too late to go solar in Beaverton. The Solar Beaverton program and the city's solar energy partners, LiveLight Energy and … See all stories on this topic » |
 Beaverton Valley Times |
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Japan's Post-Quake Solar Power Dream Alluring for Investors …
Posted by: | CommentsIt's an unlikely dream for Japan's beleaguered government but one that the worst nuclear accident in 25 years has made more alluring: an urban landscape topped with gleaming solar panels powering a nuclear-free economy. …
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Enphase Energy raising $51M for solar microinverters
Posted by: | CommentsEnphase makes solar microinverters, which are small devices that sit on a solar panel and convert direct current from the solar panel into alternating current for use. Inverters are a must-have piece of equipment in a solar system, but solar panel …
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Betting on Big Solar
Posted by: | CommentsThough GE has yet to reveal its cost structure for solar manufacturing, the company is confident that its efficient panels — and turnkey manufacturing — will rapidly bring down the cost of solar energy. Mark Little, GE's global-research director, …
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Solar panel maker linked to Obama bundler gets more US-backed aid
Posted by: | CommentsA politically connected California producer of solar panels is again benefiting from a fast-tracked US government-backed loan guarantee despite an ongoing congressional investigation and concerns about the company's finances, iWatch News has learned. …
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Durham, NC-based Semprius heats up with $20M for solar tech
Posted by: | CommentsSemprius, the Durham, NC-based company with a proprietary technology for printing semiconductors on glass, plastic or other materials for use in solar panels, has raised $20 million of an offering targeted at $30 million, according to a filing with the …
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Dallas star plugs solar power
Posted by: | CommentsLarry Hagman, the star of the television series Dallas, has given a plug to solar energy while visiting Perth, saying he's gone from playing an oil magnate to being a "sun magnate". The 79-year-old, in Perth for the SupaNova Pop Culture Expo, …
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General Electric Announces Ecomagination Home Challenge Winners
Posted by: | Comments| One of the only hardware companies on the list, SunRun is a residential solar power service firm. Instead of homeowners buying the panels outright, SunRun owns, installs and maintains the panels while homeowners pay a monthly rate for power while … See all stories on this topic » |
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Community Solar Project makes Renewable Energy Available to All
Posted by: | CommentsSEATTLE – Seattle City Light customers can now purchase solar energy even if they can't install solar panels on their homes, Mayor Mike McGinn announced today. (Media-Newswire.com) – SEATTLE – Seattle City Light customers can now purchase solar energy …
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The Home of the Future
Posted by: | CommentsAll 33 residences will have solar panels on the roofs, energy that will be fed directly into their Pacific Gas and Electric meters. In other words, instead of PG&E producing and distributing the energy, it will be the homes that produce and sell energy …
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Solar Lease Makes It Easy For Church To Switch To Solar
Posted by: | CommentsUSA Today explains that the system, where a third party installs, owns and maintains the solar panels generally in exchange for 20 years of fixed payment, has exploded across the country. Often these arrangements can be made without any upfront costs …
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Google-backed Transphorm Raises $25M for Power Conversion Tech
Posted by: | Comments| Many consumer electronic gadgets, servers and back-up power supply equipment can't run without power conversion devices. Electricity leaves the power plant as AC and gets converted to DC for powering laptops, for example. Solar panels produce … See all stories on this topic » |
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Colo.-based Real Goods Solar buying Alteris
Posted by: | CommentsReal Goods Solar installs solar panels on homes and businesses in Colorado and California. Alteris, based in Wilton, Conn., does business throughout the Northeast. If approved by shareholders, the deal would close by the end of September. …
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Pitkin County tweaks solar panel regulations
Posted by: | CommentsThe glare from a roof-mounted solar panel installation in Old Snowmass triggered complaints from a neighboring couple, whose input has helped shape regulations under consideration in Pitkin County. ASPEN — Anyone who wants to put more than 200 square …
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Department to decide on Refit bidders
Posted by: | CommentsConcentrating solar power focuses sunlight from a vast array of mirrors onto a tube filled with heating oil that creates steam to generate electricity. Photovoltaic technology directly converts solar radiation into electricity using panels made of …
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