solar power

Converting the sun's rays into usable energy is an integral step in decreasing our dependency on fossil fuels and lowering our greenhouse gas emissions. While solar panels have been used in buildings since the 50's, we're just starting to reach the tipping point for their widespread adoption. 

With subsidies that lower the costs of installations and feed-in-tariffs that pay for the electricity solar energy produces, going solar is more than an environmental decision; it makes sense economically.

The technology is actually simple, but everything surrounding it — not so much. It's going to be up to innovative entrepreneurs and policy makers to make solar power more economical, the grid smarter, homeowners and businesses more receptive, and coding and permits more uniform so that all the pieces fit nicely together.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “solar power”

• in Business
  Buffett Bets Big with Bail-Out of Solar Farm
  Mr. Buffet buys one of the world's largest Solar Farms
  by stephengfm / on Dec 7, 2011
• in Technology
  Telecommuting and Electricity — When Your Job Relies on Power
  No commute, no business clothes, and your Swingline stapler always stays put. But what happens when telecommuters lose power at home?
  by mbzoltan / on Sep 10, 2011
• in Green
  The Role of Legislation in Clean Energy
  High hopes at the face of even higher pressure
  by yihyeewong / on Jul 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “solar power”

 

• The solar industry needs to know the UK government can be trusted | Caroline Lucas

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  If policy can be changed retrospectively, why should business believe that the UK is a safe place to invest? This week, the government lost its appeal against a judges ruling that its move to change the rates for solar feed-in tariffs before the official consultation has ended was "legally flawed". The high court ...
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• Israeli Company to Open Solar Power Plant in Spain

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 606
  AORA Solar, an Israeli developer of concentrated solar power, will be opening its second-ever gas-turbine solar thermal power station in Spain. The plant will answer the electricity needs of the local population and provide additional heat energy for an adjacent desalination facility.
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• Higher electric bills on horizon to pay for solar

  
  Yen for Living — Authority: 97
  To jumpstart solar energy promotion, power companies have started adding higher surcharges.
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• Solar power Feed in Tariff victory

  
  The Economic Voice — Authority: 122
  The plans of the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, to halve the subsidy for home generated solar power have been thrown into disarray by a court ruling.When the Labour government started the Feed in Tariff (FIT) scheme for renewable energy in the UK a whole new industry was started. Many companies and jobs were ...
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• Bottlenecks of Utility Scale Renewable Energy

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 606
  Renewable energy still has a long way to go to be our de facto utility energy source, especially in a state like California. What bottlenecks are keeping us from a renewable energy future?
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• Critical List: Obama boosts clean energy; Bingaman energy standard coming soon

  
  Grist — Authority: 717
  By Sarah Laskow “I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy,” President Obama said in his State of the Union . He didn’t talk about fighting climate change, though. The state of the union is: unsurprised. Sen. Jeff Bingaman says he’ll release his proposal for a clean energy standard in ...
  3 days ago

• Siemens wins steam turbine orders for solar thermal power plants in India

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 110
  Siemens Energy has been awarded three orders by different customers to supply a total of four steam turbine generator units for solar thermal power plants in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The steam turbines of type SST-700 are intended for the Godawari, Abhijeet and Diwakar & KVK parabolic trough power ...
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• House grade solar panel - any use?

  
  MotorhomeFun — Authority: 138
  Ive been given a large solar panel that was destined for installation on a house roof but the glass has cracked on it so was being discarded. Ive taped over the crack to hold glass and it works fine so was wondering if I could use it on my MH . Unfortunately it outputs 24v and is rated at 218w so plenty of power but ...
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• Solar subsidies cuts: UK government loses court appeal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Thousands of homes and businesses may now be able to claim higher payments after the government fails to overturn earlier ruling that cuts were illegal The government lost its appeal on Wednesday against a judges ruling that its cuts to solar power subsidies were illegal, suggesting thousands of homes and businesses ...
  3 days ago

• Small, Portable Solar Light

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 108
  There are many solar energy gadgets out there, but some of them seem to stand out. Take the LightShip, for example. It is a practical, portable solar light that could be the clean energy answer to campers, boats, cabins and emergency use. I particularly like the fact that it features three suction cups so that you ...
  4 days ago

• Alternative Energy Concepts From Farm To City

  
  EarthTechling — Authority: 613
  Water scarcity has always been a feature of the American West, but as population increases the threat of shortage grows more pronounced. That ever-present problem was the genesis for the Drylands Competition , an annual contest with the purpose of creating a portfolio of long-term design strategies to help solve ...
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• Help guide to Home Made Energy

  
  Build Your Internet Business With An Online Marketing Plan — Authority: 126
  We all are aware about the unique circumstances of our community and we know that the energy sources which are essential to generate different kinds of energy like energy and mechanical energy and many more are generate from it. The rates of consumption of such past are very higher and experts are couples it that a ...
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• GE wants its Wind Customers to Buy Solar Panels too

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 85
  General Electric is trying to convince its wind turbine customers to purchase solar panels as well. This is according to Vic Abate, who is the head of the company’s renewables unit.
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• Maharashtra plans to revive Sakri solar project in Dhule

  
  Indian Power Sector — Authority: 127
  The Maharashtra Government is trying to revive the Rs 2,000-crore Sakri solar power project in Dhule, northern Maharashtra.The 150-MW project hit a major hurdle in 2011 when the State Forest Department objected to the site of the plant, as it was a declared forest under Government records.Efforts [...]
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• Solar Power Gate Openers Increases Distance From the Nearest Power Source

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  As security becomes an increasing issue in today’s world and gates become an ever more popular measure to protect homes, continued solutions must be developed to allow them to become useful additions to the property rather than cumbersome obstructions. Installing an electric gate opener greatly increases their ...
  6 days ago

• Germanys Energy Problems

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 463
  We are not alone in our protest of green taxes on our energy bills - The Germans also have the problem. Angela Merkel decided last year that nuclear would no longer be Germanys main supplier of power and renewables were the future.  German has promoted solar power for many years. but now its inefficiency has caught ...
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• Do You Want To Save Energy And Save Money?

  
  Online survival Information — Authority: 123
  Energy prices will rise in the long term, we all know that. It is only transitory relief, when the price of a barrel of oil falls from $150 to $75, we all know that it will go back there. Apart from human greed pushing the price up, there are more than three billion people in Asia all wanting to improve their ...
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• The Race For Solar Sustaining Mobile Devices Is on

  
  f3v3r — Authority: 433
  Pin it Plenty of effort is going into improving smartphone battery life, but only a few individuals are delving into radical realms to achieve the goal. Take for example, Arman Ahnood, a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, whose latest prototype uses solar cells to capture wasted energy from ...
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• Arman Ahnood teases OLED display with solar cells, idealizes the self-sustaining smartphone

  
  2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday! — Authority: 132
  Plenty of effort is going into improving smartphone battery life, but only a few individuals are delving into radical realms to achieve the goal. Take for example, Arman Ahnood, a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, whose latest prototype uses solar cells to capture wasted energy from OLEDs. Similar to ...
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• Improved Solar Affordability And Incentives Make It Easy To Switch Now

  
  Lounge Interior . com — Authority: 110
  The price of carbon-based fuels like crude oil, coal, and gas oil continue going up, straining budgets. Savings achieved by switching to solar energy continue increasing as a result. Moreover, governments are assisting people to make the switch to solar. They have introduced a range of measures to improve solar ...
  1 week ago

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