Arizona Votes 4-1 in Favor of Renewable Energy (RenewableEnergyAccess.com) The future of solar - and renewable energy as a whole - just got a whole lot sunnier in the state of Arizona. By a vote of 4-1, the Arizona Corporation Commission voted on October 31 to expand the state's renewable portfolio standard to 15% by 2025, with 30% of that to come from distributed generation technologies.
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Scientists Detail Desert Solar Power (Playfuls.com) A German study suggests Europe can make deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and phase out nuclear power at the same time. The research, commissioned by the German government, details how Europe can simultaneously meet all its electricity needs, cut emissions of CO2 from electricity generation by 70 percent by the year 2050, and phase out nuclear power.
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Elecnor will build the largest solar facility in the world (Construction and Maintenance News) Elecnor is to build on a turnkey basis a 20 Megawatt photovoltaic solar power system in the town of Trujillo, Cαceres. The solar power system, which goes by the name of La Magascona, will cover an area of around 100 hectares.
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Chevron warms to solar power (The Argus) The San Ramon-based energy company today unveils one of the nation's larger solar arrays, a nearly 1 megawatt system atop the U.S. Postal Service's processing plant in West Oakland.
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Dawn of the "solar salon" in US living rooms (Reuters.uk) One evening last month, a mix of philanthropists, charity executives and environmentalists gathered at the New York home of Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The topic of the evening was not 1960s music or world hunger, but solar power.
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