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• The Pursuit of New Ways to Boost Solar Development

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 476
  The solar power boom in Germany, Spain, and parts of the United States has been fueled by government subsidies. But now some U.S. states — led by New Jersey, of all places — are pioneering a different approach: issuing tradable credits that can be sold on the open market. So far, the results have been promising. ...
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• We Need More Investment in Green Training and Education-Nationwide Instructor Training

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 134
  In California the US government is investing $3.5 Million  in a regional resource and training center for Solar Power technology. The center, one of nine in the nationwide Installer Instructor Training Network, will enable California to build a highly capable clean energy workforce and to maintain its worldwide ...
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• P&G Launches 1.1 MW Solar Array

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  Procter & Gamble will use a 1.1 megawatt solar array to help electrify its Oxnard, Calif., paper plant.The photovoltaic solar array should generate more than 1.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity during its first year of operation, and more than 34 milion kWh over 20 years, according to a press release.The ...
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• Salt-Based Solar Power Tower To Be Built in California

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  Permission was sought from authorities in California for a solar power tower to be built near Rice, a town in San Bernadino County, California. The California-based company called SolarReserve claims the technology it will use for the solar tower will allow the plant to supply electricity to consumers around the ...
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• San Diego Solar Projects Get $154 Million Funding

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  A total number of 192 solar installation projects in the public sector of San Diego were awarded with $154 million in allocations through the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program. Seven hundred thirty-nine projects were given $800 million in allocation by the IRS in all. The funding given to San Diego will ...
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• San Diego Solar Projects Get $154 Million Funding

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  A total number of 192 solar installation projects in the public sector of San Diego were awarded with $154 million in allocations through the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program. Seven hundred thirty-nine projects were given $800 million in allocation by the IRS in all. The funding given to San Diego will ...
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• PG&E Expands Net Metering

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  Yesterday saw a surprisingly positive new chapter in California’s net metering saga roll out. PG&E is voluntarily expanding its net metering program in the absence of new legislation that would mandate such a move. PG&E customers can continue to explore solar as a valuable investment for some time to come ...
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• PG&E Expands Net Metering, California Solar Producers Jump For Joy

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  Solar advocates in California say that a recent move by Pacific Gas & Electric to expand net metering will encourage adoption of more rooftop solar.Earlier this week Governor Schwarzenegger convinced PG&E to up the amount of net metering allowed in its territory from 2.5 percent of peak demand to 3.5 percent, ...
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• SET-Solar Announces Turnkey Solutions for Solar Energy

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 493
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 29, 2009 — SET-Solar Corp., a U.S. provider of high-quality, mono-crystalline photovoltaic solar modules, announced today it offers turnkey solutions for installers and integrators of solar energy projects. The company, which has been in a rapid growth phase since its opening in May of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Go Solar!

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 423
  By: Jonathan Marshall Nearly 34,000 PG&E customers had grid-connected solar power installations by the end of September--64 percent of the total for Californias investor-owned utilities (IOUs), according to the latest progress report from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Together, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• California First State to Sign Smart Grid Legislation into Law

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  What a week for smart grid! Not only did President Obama announce the lucky recipients of over $3.4 billion of stimulus funding for electrical grid upgrades, but news began to trickle out of California that the state’s first smart grid legislation (Senate Bill 17) was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger . ...
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• Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger Secures Commitment to Continue Net Metering for Solar

  
  eNewsChannels — Authority: 438
  SACRAMENTO /California Newswire/ — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) committed to increase the amount of net metering for rooftop solar in its territory from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent to ensure that investment in solar continues to grow. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger Secures Commitment to Continue Net Metering for Solar

  
  eNewsChannels — Authority: 438
  SACRAMENTO /California Newswire/ — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) committed to increase the amount of net metering for rooftop solar in its territory from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent to ensure that investment in solar continues to grow. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger Secures Commitment to Continue Net Metering for Solar

  
  California Newswire — Authority: 484
  SACRAMENTO /California Newswire/ — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) committed to increase the amount of net metering for rooftop solar in its territory from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent to ensure that investment in solar continues to grow. ...
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• Solar Power International 2009 Next Week

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  Next week, the country’s largest business-to-business solar trade show will take place in Anaheim, CA. GetSolar will be there and we’ll report from the trenches, but to give you an idea of the scope of the conference ahead: Over 900 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees expected, more than double the size of last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cost of Solar Falling, Report Says

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  In a report released today by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy), researchers say that the cost of solar has dropped by more than 30 percent. “Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008″ is the second release from the Berkeley ...
  3 weeks ago

• Homeowners With Prime California Sun Could Go Solar For $10,000 With 1BOG

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 624
  Homeowners in Southern California could now go solar for as little as $10,000 for about a 3.5 KW - 4 KW solar roof. If you do solar estimates in Berkeley, you start feeling left out that you don’t estimate solar roofs in San Diego. Rebates for our whole state are decided based on optimum solar conditions. That ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lizards and tortoises hampering Californias solar energy efforts

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Attempts to build solar energy plants in California are being threatened by efforts to protect rare species including desert tortoises flattailed horned lizards and bighorn sheep.
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• Companies Find Ways to Guard Solar Panels as Solar Theft Rises

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  Like any other material item that comes with a price tag, solar panels can (and do) get stolen . With reports of solar panel theft coming out of countries as far away as South Africa, Australia or Britain, it’s not a phenomenon particular to California, which has seen solar panels filched from buildings ranging ...
  3 weeks ago

• Solar Projects in California Being Scaled Back to Protect Endangered Species

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  California has begun taking a unique approach to current renewable energy goals which require the state to be drawing one third of its energy from renewables by 2020. The renewables goal for 2020 has sparked a large amount of new projects and renewables being explored. So far, giant solar mirrors, wind farms are the ...
  3 weeks ago

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