People living in specialist disability housing could save upwards of a $1,000 on their electricity bill with a plan underway to install solar and battery storage into a new disability housing development.   Disability housing service, inhousing, in partnership with Natural Solar, will install a solar panel system and battery to store energy, into homes…
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The UN agency for migration IOM and Norwegian company Scatec Solar have started a collaboration to install solar panels in Malakal, South Sudan, to support the organization’s humanitarian projects for displaced people in the area. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is planning to use solar energy to power a significant part of its humanitarian…
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Solar power developers are running into opposition in many parts of the US from people who claim cutting down trees to put up solar panels is counterproductive. It’s hard to see how it is any more counterproductive than cutting down trees to put up shopping malls, create farms, build tract houses, or expand cities but…
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In Anguilla, British West Indies, the Frangipani Beach Resort completed a large-scale sustainable energy project to generate clean, reliable power to the hotel. The new solar panels system is projected to power 70 percent of the resort. The project’s designer/implementation specialist is Thomas Hodge from SwitchLogix, former CEO of Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) who served on the…
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Siemens Gamesa Tuesday said it has secured its largest solar energy project order of 250 MW from Sprng Energy. The project will be developed in Anantapuram in Andhra Pradesh, Siemens Gamesa said in a statement. Siemens Gamesa will provide a comprehensive EPC (engineering procurement and construction) solution that includes engineering and design of the solar…
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Government-owned companies in India are steaming ahead with large-scale solar and wind energy tenders in order to help meet the now-ambitious looking installation targets of 175 gigawatts by March 2022. The latest public sector company to launch a large solar power tender is Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL). The company is jointly owned by the…
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The use of solar power across the United States has significantly increased in the past six years. Over the past six years, America’s solar energy capacity has increased by more than two times in 45 of the country’s 57 largest cities, according to a recent Environment America Research & Policy Center report. One third of…
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If you think the world is ready for a floating solar explosion, run right out and buy yourself a cigar. It’s happening! The idea of strewing solar panels about bodies of water like so many rose petals has finally caught on, and here in the US it’s getting a major push from the US Department…
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Walt Disney World is using a new 270-acre solar farm that takes up as much space as its Magic Kingdom park — times two. A number of reporters got a tour of the new 50 MW facility last week, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The new solar farm features more than 500,000 solar panels which move to follow…
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Snowy places aren’t ideal for harvesting solar energy – panels can’t do much if they’re buried under blankets of snow, of course. Now a team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new device that can produce electricity from snow itself. The team calls the new device a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator,…
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