Solar Energy in the News

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Solar Energy News Wednesday December 13th 2006

Solar energy sources catching on slowly
(The Herald-Sun: Wed, 13 Dec) Solar power is still having difficulty getting off the ground locally. The federal Million Solar Roofs program wants to install solar energy systems on one million buildings nationwide by 2010. The Chapel Hill Million Solar Roofs Initiative Steering Committee, part of the campaign, was appointed by the Town Council to help achieve a local goal of 500 solar energy buildings.

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.

A Quick Guide to Ethanol Energy Stocks
(SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Wed, 13 Dec) Stockerblog submits: As a round-up to my blogs on alternative energy stocks, which included solar energy stocks and wind energy stocks, I have put together a list of the companies involved in the production of ethanol [also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol ], which can be used as a stand alone fuel [... ]

Energy: Learning by doing - School gets $50,000 to teach classes in renewable energy
(Patriot Ledger: Wed, 13 Dec) QUINCY - Quincy High School students will learn how to construct solar panels in shop class next year. Biology classes will practice storing solar energy in water, and math students will calculate how much money can be saved by doing so.

More solar investment
(Aftenposten: Wed, 13 Dec) The Norwegian solar energy adventure continues, with Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) announcing heavy investment in their facility in Telemark.

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.

UT Team Building Solar House
(KXAN 36 Austin: Wed, 13 Dec) While Austin has been in the forefront of pushing solar energy, there's no full-scale solar house in the city. About 30 UT students and faculty are trying to make that a reality.

Massive growth in the Middle East's new and renewable energy sector anticipated
(AME Info: Wed, 13 Dec) Drastic increases in oil prices and increased awareness of the limited availability of traditional fossil fuels is giving the new and renewable energy sector enormous momentum, with many of the world leaders in the field of photovoltaics (solar power), wind power and other environmentally friendly energy schemes accelerating product innovations that are being embraced across the region as ...

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