Solar energy brightens up eastern Germany (IANS via Yahoo! India News: Fri, 15 Jun) Freiberg (Germany), June 15 (DPA) Lying in the middle of what was once communist East Germany and shrouded for months under a leaden grey wintry sky, the small 800-year-old town of Freiberg would appear to be an unlikely new centre for the burgeoning global solar energy industry.
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Calif. water panel OKs solar (UPI: Thu, 14 Jun) California's Metropolitan Water District is set to use solar energy after a board meeting set aside $625,000 for design work on a 6-acre solar collection field.
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Solar World: EU grid parity by 2020 (UPI: Thu, 14 Jun) The day solar photovoltaic energy can compete with fossil fuel-driven electricity in Europe is not far off, delegates to the European Union Photovoltaic Technology Platform conference said this week.
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Clean tech of wind, solar, wave energy will feed economic growth (The Oregonian: Wed, 13 Jun) Ron Pernick, co-founder of Portland-based Clean Edge, sees the development of renewable energy technologies such as those associated with wind, wave, and solar power as "the largest wealth creation opportunity in a generation."
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