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Solar Energy News Tuesday December 12th 2006

PriceEnergy Adding Solar to Its Energy Products
(PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance: Tue, 12 Dec) PriceEnergy will soon offer solar energy systems to its residential and commercial customers, including solar hot water systems, solar electric systems and home energy efficiency audits.

Nanotechnology meets solar energy
(East Valley Tribune: Mon, 11 Dec) Two of the hot-button fields of scientific study - nanotechnology and solar energy - are being combined by a team of Arizona State University researchers in an effort to find a cheap source of household energy for the nation's future.

Solar energy's day is dawning State to embark on its biggest-ever photovoltaic project
(San Diego Union-Tribune: Sun, 10 Dec) HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune California hopes to subsidize the installation of enough photovoltaic systems, like this one atop a Qualcomm building in Sorrento Mesa, to generate 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity. That could power nearly 3 million homes on a sunny day. Solar energy's day is dawning

Solar food festival on cards
(The Times of India: Tue, 12 Dec) LUCKNOW: The Non-Conventional Energy Development Agency (NEDA), Lucknow, is planning to organise a solar food festival at its training centre on Dewa Road in Chinhat on every second Saturday of the month from 3 pm to 5 pm.

groSolar Acquires Energy Outfitters
(Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance: Tue, 12 Dec) WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. & GRANTS PASS, Ore.--groSolar, a national solar energy firm, announced today that it has acquired Energy Outfitters, an Oregon-based solar energy distribution company.

For a Limited Time Only: 30% Solar Tax Credit Extended
(SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Mon, 11 Dec) Neal Dikeman submits : From the Solar Energy Industries Association: "In its waning hours, the 109th Congress today passed legislation that would extend the 30% solar energy investment tax credit [ITC ] for homeowners and businesses for one additional year, through the end of 2008."

No new money for green energy
(Guardian Unlimited: Tue, 12 Dec) The government today launches the latest phase of its grant support system for renewable energy such as solar panels and wind turbines for public sector buildings such as schools - but there is no new money for the scheme in spite of the recent Stern Review.

Energy targets debate heats up
(Daily Yomiuri Online: Mon, 11 Dec) As part of international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the government is considering whether to introduce higher mandatory targets for renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, for the country's utilities in fiscal 2011-14.

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