Everyone is used to clunky and heavy panels that are affixed to the tops of buildings and carports, but now GE has announced that it has taken the skinnier solar panels farther than they’ve ever been before, achieving record efficiency for a single cadmium telluride thin film solar cell–a 12.8% conversion rate of sunlight into [...]
As I have mentioned previously, I am a big believer in the notion, “Follow the money.” Hat tip to Green Tech Media and Venture Beat’s Green Beat that do great jobs on the money that flows into the space. Cleantech saw $7.8 Billion in 2010 (the most post-credit bubble), but that was somewhat tempered with [...]
NRG Energy, the parent company of Houston’s Reliant Energy, announced its largest solar ambitions to date, with a plan to spend up to $450 million over four years on a 250-megawatt project being developed by SunPower. According to this Reuters article, NRG Solar as they are known, has also invested in the following solar projects [...]
Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]
It sure seems like I am seeing more and more articles like this one from the USA Today, titled, “Turning parking lots into vast urban solar farms.” And if it makes it into a paper like the USA Today, it is certainly mainstream. What are solar carports? Take typical surface parking lots — like ones [...]
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