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California's renewable power boom is off to a slower start than planned.

Delays have hit more than half of the big solar, wind and geothermal energy projects under development throughout the state, according to a recent government report. They're still moving forward, but not at the pace their developers expected.

As a result, California probably won't meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2010 - a key element of the state's fight against global warming. "

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For the second time within twelve months, the conservative French Government has proposed raising the feed-in tariff for solar PV in the coming year. The Minister for the Environment, Jean-Louis Borloo, has announced that new feed-in tariffs for solar energy will come into effect as of 1 January 2010.

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The US government on Tuesday announced that it will allocate an additional 550 million US dollars in grants to develop renewable energy projects. The goal is to double the US production of renewable energy from solar, wind, biomass and other renewable energy production facilities in a few years.

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Google is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

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The Solar Roadway™ is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and driveways with Solar Road Panels™ that collect and store solar energy to be used by our homes and businesses. This renewable energy replaces the need for the current fossil fuels used for the generation of electricity. This, in turn, cuts greenhouse gases literally in half.

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Uganda Telecom has launched the country’s first solar powered cellphone. Dubbed “Kasana”, the phone is designed to harness the East African sun for a sustainable recharge after an initially charging from the conventional AC socket.

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Over the next two to three years the Chinese government will pay up to 50 percent of the price of solar power systems of more than 500 megawatts. In remote areas it will pay up to 70 percent of the cost.

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Solar power plants in deserts using mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays have the potential to generate up to a quarter of the world's electricity by 2050

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One would expect that -- over time -- the costs associated with renewable energy would go down. With fossil fuels, costs can only go up as the un-renewable sources dwindle and become more scarce even as demand rises. Here are 5 feasible renewable energy sources that could be developed to help meet world energy needs:

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One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells.

The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feiman’s technology.

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Arizona, already a dominant force in the solar sector, is adding another $1 billion solar plant to its repertoire. The state just struck a deal with Albiasa Solar to build the 200-megawatt concentrated solar facility near Kingman, Ariz. — a city in the northwest part of the state very close to the California and Nevada borders

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Despite the credit crisis, 2008 will be remembered in the solar industry as a year where federal incentives were enhanced and extended for eight years. This ends the boom and bust cycles that have plagued the industry for decades.

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Petrochemical company blames cuts on financial crisis, but claims reduction in workforce will lead to cheaper solar power

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Webberville-area project would be among world's largest but also comes with cost questions

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IBM and researchers from Harvard University are launching a new World Community Grid project to discover organic materials to create a more efficient and lower cost solar cell. The path-breaking effort will use idle computer power from volunteers to create large supplies of new clean energy.

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Earlier today, concentrated solar company SolFocus announced that it has signed a deal to install over 10 MW of its systems in Spain for EMPE Solar. Upon its completion in 2010, the $103 million, multi-site project will be the largest concentrated solar deployment in the world

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A new type of reflective coating can make solar panels far more efficient, soaking up nearly all available sunlight from nearly any angle, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Cool Earth Solar has one of those radical green-tech ideas that may actually make a real commercial impact.

In the next two weeks, the company plans to start testing a prototype solar plant built around rows of reflective balloons hung on poles. The solar balloons, which are eight feet in diameter, look something like a tube for sledding or laying around the pool, but each one can generate 1 kilowatt of electricity.

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Two years ago, the Economist asked if Ovshinsky wasn’t the Edison of our age.

Ovshinsky holds patents on NiMH batteries, those ubiquitous rechargeable cells. His solar cells powered the MIR space station and, as you’ll hear in the interview, he created a battery for the GM EV1 that had a range of 200 miles.

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The energy team at Google has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030. The analysis, led by Jeffery Greenblatt, suggests a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 (with some remaining use of natural gas as well as nuclear), and cutting oil use for cars by 40%

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