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Monthly Archives: June 2011
SOL’s Solar Lighting Moves from Remote Spots to City Parking Lots
Michael Sonnenfeldt is president and CEO of solar lighting manufacturer SOL in Palm City, Fla. Photographer: Diane Bondareff via Bloomberg When it became commercially available two decades ago, outdoor solar lighting was prohibitively expensive, used mainly for locations far from … Continue reading
Coventry Cathedral to install solar panels
Coventry Cathedral is set to become the first in Britain to put solar panels on its roof. Coventry Cathedral to instal solar panels Photo: ALAMY Staff at the cathedral are applying for planning permission to place more than £100,000 worth … Continue reading
UK’s biggest solar energy farm connects to national grid
Solar panels at Howbery business park in Oxfordshire to generate up to 682MWh a year. Howbery Business Park’s 3,000 solar panels will generate a quarter of its needs. Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images Britain’s biggest array of solar panels has begun … Continue reading
The £197 ‘nano house’ designed to solve India’s slum housing
One of India’s leading companies has designed a £197 ‘nano house’ it believes could solve the world’s housing crisis and lift its two billion poor out of slum housing. Image 1 of 3 The house has the ability to transform … Continue reading
Market town ‘to become solar powered’
An energy firm has offered to install solar panels on each of the 21,000 homes and businesses in its local area after winning funding that could lead to Britain’s first renewable energy-powered town. Coucillor David Wise is one of the … Continue reading
The women of India’s Barefoot College bring light to remote villages
Being trained as solar-power engineers enables women from rural India and Africa to introduce electricity in isolated areas Kamla Devi was Rajasthan’s first woman to graduate from Barefoot college as a solar engineer. Photograph: Suzanne Lee/Panos Securing the end of … Continue reading
Here comes the sun: the cost of solar energy is crashing down
Barack Obama tours a solar power site in Nevada (Photo: Getty) While attention has been focused on the Government’s overblown plans for expanding windpower, something extraordinary has been happening to solar energy. The prices of solar photovoltaic (pv) panels have … Continue reading
Sustainable progress calls for funding action
IN July last year the federal government announced the establishment of a $100 million Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund. Details are now starting to emerge about how the fund will operate. Questions such as how it will be administered (it … Continue reading
White House misses own deadline for installing solar panels on roof
Enlarge Image FILE – In this June 21, 1979 black-and-white file photo, President Jimmy Carter speaks against a backdrop of solar panels at the White House. Last October, the Obama administration announced plans to install solar panels on the roof … Continue reading
Price of solar panels to drop to $1 by 2013, report forecasts
Ernst & Young analysis suggests that falling solar and rising fossil fuel prices could make large-scale installations cost-competitive without government support within a decade The government’s decision to cut feed-in tariff rates for solar panels has been criticised as ‘highly … Continue reading
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