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Apple reveals big #solar, fuel cell plans for data center http://t.co/uqvQshWX
– adamjones (applemacbookpro) http://twitter.com/applemacbookpro/status/172212195621486592

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RT @grist: California now has nearly 1 gigawatt of #solar spread across almost 10,000 sites: http://ow.ly/5y3W8

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RT @data4all: Ever-brilliant Amory Lovins debunks false economic & #enviro claims 4 #nukes: http://j.mp/i7EtZK #solar

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RT @Eco__Evolution: #UK government unveils plans to slash solar feed-in tariffs http://tinyurl.com/4kornmk #solar #tariff

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The Department of Energy is handing out more loan guarantees for solar projects. This morning the DOE said that it has offered a $967 million loan guarantee for the Agua Caliente Solar project, a 290 MW photovoltaic facility that will be built in Yuma County, Arizona, and which NRG Energy said it planned to buy from First Solar last month.

The Agua Caliente project will use panels from First Solar, is set for completion in 2014 and is supposed to create 400 construction jobs. Northern California utility PG&E plans to buy the electricity from the project. NRG plans to invest up to $800 million in equity in the project, and the deal between First Solar and NRG requires

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Huge Renewables Expansion Coming! Even with policy uncertainty, markets expected to explode. http://bit.ly/gpRyS1 #solar #wind #supergrid
– Michael Powers (TerraWatts2010) http://twitter.com/TerraWatts2010/status/17241495673249792

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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has voted to license the 500-MW Palen project and the 150-MW Rice  project in Southern California, which now brings to nine the number of solar thermal power projects approved in the last four months.

Altogether the solar projects comprise 4,142.5MW of solar thermal power to be added to the California grid and will provide more than 8,000 jobs in initial construction, and then more than 1,000 ongoing jobs in operations.

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Researchers have designed a toothbrush that cleans teeth by creating a solar-powered chemical reaction in the mouth, doing away with the need for toothpaste.

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The UK's most eminent engineers have warned that the biggest set of investments and social changes ever seen in peacetime are needed to meet the country's energy needs in the coming decades, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The changes include a transformation of the nation's draughty homes and cuts in how far people commute to work, as well as a vast expansion of wind and solar power and dozens of new nuclear or "clean coal" power plants.

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"Since the first Earth Day in 1970, progressives have wondered how to communicate the necessity for sustainable economies to a recalcitrant conservative element in this country. Bland Solar and Air, of Bakersfield, California, may well have found the answer with their “Buy Solar. Get a Gun.” campaign."

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"Nearly 2,300 solar panels at the city's largest water filtration plant next week will begin harnessing energy from the sun.

The $8.9 million project at the Porter Reservoir plant is the first in a series of greening efforts that has been completed by the city government."

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Indian mobile phone and commodity export firm Airvoice Group has formed a joint venture with public sector body Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam to build 13GW of solar and wind capacity in a sparsely populated part of Karnataka district in south west India.

The joint venture is budgeting to invest $50 billion over a period of 10 years, claiming it to be the largest single renewable energy project in the world.

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It appears that Exxon ran a competition for solar house designers in 1977, then took out ads showcasing their work in major newspapers

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Kroon Hall, the new home of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been awarded Platinum certification, according to the Office of Public Affairs of Yale University. Kroon Hall was designed to use 81% less water and 58% less energy than a comparable building, helping it receive a total of 59 LEED points. With the help of a massive and beautiful solar array, about 25% of this building's electricity should be generated on-site, too.

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That takes my breath away. In one of the biggest renewable energy deals in the history of the world, a Korean consortium led by Samsung* has agreed to build 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power capacity in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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VCs and the Feds Have Pumped Billions into Solar Start-Ups but Only a Few Will Survive. We Pick Some Potential Winners and Losers.

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It's been eighteen months since the Clinton Foundation began delving into facilitating solar power in India. At the time it was to scope out developing some 5 GW of power in the state of Gujarat. Now comes word that the Clinton Climate Initiative and the state of Rajasthan (just north of Gujarat) have signed a memorandum of understanding that will have CCI examining the feasibility of developing some 3,000-5,000 MW worth of solar power plants in the state:

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A consortium of solar industry trade groups released a report indicating that solar photovoltaics could provide up to 12 percent of Europe’s electricity and the combination of PV, concentrated solar power and solar thermal could deliver 15 percent of electricity in the U.S. by 2020.

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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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