Tag: solar energy

Lightsource and BlackRock Announce £1bn Solar Acquisition Spree

Solar developer Lightsource has teamed up with asset manager BlackRock in a strategic partnership aimed at consolidating the secondary UK solar market through around £1bn of acquisitions over the next three years. The...

Golf Course Goes Solar

In a move designed to cut its monthly bill for electricity in half, Tracy Golf and Country Club is installing an extensive solar energy system scheduled to go on line within the...

Dominion Energy Buys Virginia Solar Power Facility, Plans to Purchase Another

Dominion Energy acquired Clarke County Solar, a 10 MW solar power facility in Clarke County, Va., from the project's developer, an affiliate of Chicago-based Hecate Energy. The company also announced plans to purchase...

Solar-Powered Electric Yacht — Soel Yacht SoelCat 12 — Unveiling In A Few Days

Once you leave your zero-carbon footprint home for a clean holiday using your long-range electric vehicle (EV), what’s better than arriving at your destination and finding yourself ready to continue your zero-emission...

Elgin Entrepreneur’s Power Project to Use 3,700 Solar Panels

It may not always be sunny in Elgin, but building permits were issued in late May and work is underway on what officials say will be one of the city's largest solar...

Researchers Develop Solar Paint That Turns Water Vapor Into Hydrogen

It may be getting cheaper and easier to install solar panels onto your rooftop but what if you could generate clean energy for your home with just some paint? This reality is inching...

NextEnergy Invests in ‘Subsidy-Free’ UK Solar Projects

In what could prove to be a major turning point for the UK's embattled solar market, NextEnergy Solar Fund Ltd (NESF) has this week announced it has acquired a portfolio of projects...

Wind, Solar, & Energy Efficiency Replacing Coal In The UK

Wind and solar energy, as well as energy efficiency measures, are serving to replace the overwhelming majority of power which in the UK had previously been supplied by coal power, according to...

Tesla Now Powers this Island with Solar Energy

American automaker Tesla has recently built a solar energy project in Kauai in Hawaii, The Verge reported. The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13 megawatt SolarCity solar...

The New Colors of Solar Energy

The technology of solar energy has progressed dramatically in the last few decades, as it operates with increasing efficiency and at lower costs. But the matter of how solar panels look remains an...

Could Biomimicry Revolutionise Renewable Energy?

A host of new technologies have been inspired by the natural world, as designers increasingly look to biomimicry when to creating new ideas for wind turbines, solar cells and hydropower. So could...

Embrace Decentralised Renewable Energy for Power Supply

Countries in Africa and South Asia should embrace inexpensive decentralised renewable energy (DRE) technologies for clean, sustainable and affordable power for all, says a report. Most national governments are far from solving energy...

Tucson Electric Power Confirms ‘Historically Low Price’ for Latest Solar Project

A leading US utility has this week signed a new deal to secure solar power for up to 21,000 homes at a price that is less than half the level it previously...

Solar Energy Brings A Ray Of Hope To Salt Farmers In Gujarat

A vast majority of India's salt comes from Gujarat's Little Rann of Kutch desert. Here, about 43,000 salt farmers, mostly women, work in brutal heat to produce salt from briny tidal water....

Australia leaps up global renewable energy investment rankings

Australia has leaped up the rankings of the most attractive countries for renewable energy investment, thanks to the record sums of more than $7.5 billion committed to large-scale wind and solar, not...

The Sun Irrigates a Carrot

Droughty, hot, summer day will no longer worry Marko Čarnić, vegetable grower from Begeč, near Novi Sad. From now on the sun also works for Čarnić, who is one of the biggest...

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