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Delaware's largest clean energy facility MILFORD, Del., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Delaware Governor Jack Markell today joined with PSEG Solar Source, Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation (DEMEC), juwi solar, Inc. (JSI) and Sunolar Power (Sunolar) to dedicate the PSEG Milford Solar Farm. The 15-megawatt facility, located in Milford, Del., is the state's largest solar farm. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120830/MM62627LOGO ) The 80-acre PSEG Milford Solar farm...

WALNUT, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunvalley Solar, Inc. (OTC BB:SSOL), a leading solar power technology and solar system integration company, announced today that it has been awarded a new 129.5KW solar system installation contract from Amerifreight, Inc in City of Industry, CA. The 129.5KW contract is for a system capable of generating 190,688kWh of electrical power annually. The system utilizes 518 pieces of high efficiency 250 watt Polycrystalline solar panels. "This...

. . . Utility is Third in Nation for Amount of Solar Added in 2012. . . NEWARK, N.J., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) announced yesterday that Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) ranks third among U.S. utilities for the amount of solar capacity added within its electric service area in 2012. This annual ranking, which identifies the companies that are integrating solar into the nation's power grid, is part of SEPA's sixth...

DOE, Ormat and GeothermEx Collaboration Produces Electricity Using In-field EGS RENO, Nev., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA), the U.S. Department of Energy and GeothermEx successfully produced 1.7 additional megawatts from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) project inside an existing wellfield in the U.S. This is the first EGS project to be connected to the electricity grid. Using innovative subsurface technologies, research and development teams...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online There are many who would like to one day go to Mars. This list of willing candidates likely dries up when asked to dedicate a total of four years to the trip. The Inspiration Mars Foundation, on the other hand, believes they can shoot a couple around the Red Planet and back again in just over 500 days. Now, researchers at the University of Washington aim to make the trip in even less time – somewhere around 30 days, to be...

BEIJING, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 2, 2013, Sky Solar, a global solar power station investor and operator, announced that its Japanese subsidiary - Sky Solar (Japan) - had achieved successful grid-connection of two PV power stations located at Otsuka-cho, Tochigi Prefecture, Honshu Island and Kamishihoro-cho, Hokkaido. These two plants were connected on March 15 and March 30 respectively. These two projects total approximately 2.3MW with an annual generation capacity...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable energy is neither clean nor a solution to climate change according to a new Truthout interview with Ozzie Zehner, a visiting scholar at the University of California - Berkeley and author of the book Green Illusions. Instead of "hyping so-called green energy," Zehner advocates redirecting focus to the impacts of a growing human population and consumption. "If we want to address climate change and the many other consequences of...

Stanford University The rapid growth of the solar power industry over the past decade may have exacerbated the global warming situation it was meant to soothe, simply because most of the energy used to manufacture the millions of solar panels came from burning fossil fuels. That irony, according to Stanford University researchers, is coming to an end. For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world's installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last...

ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCQB: SWET, the "Company") announced today that the Company had communicated to their shareholders of record in a letter that stated: To our valued shareholders, Our strategic mission is to engineer, design, develop and enable the construction of the most energy efficient and cost effective source of clean power available and a source of energy that will be financially productive without the subsidies...

Solar Incentives in Missouri Spur Growth in Solar Kits. (PRWEB) April 04, 2013 Peak Solar has seen boost in DIY Solar Kits this month due to TVA new incentives. The legislation has implemented several solar friendly policies and incentives, spurring enormous growth in the number of residential and commercial photovoltaic systems throughout the state. According to TVA, the state has more than 100 megawatts of solar power capacity that is being offered through privately owned residential...