Solar energy nearly perfect for Big Bear (Big Bear Grizzly: Tue, 22 Jan) When Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted an incentive plan in 2006 to have 1 million California homes using solar energy within 10 years, Big Bear Valley residents fell somewhere between the haves and the have nots.
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Stirling Energy takes on the solar power challenge (USA Today: Mon, 21 Jan) Given high oil prices and increased concerns over global warming, anything solar is hot. Stirling Energy Systems aims to commercialize a decades-old technology that is the most efficient at converting sun power to electricity but which has struggled with costs and reliability.
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New solar energy farm to be built on Oahu (KPUA Hilo: Tue, 22 Jan) KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) _ The state's largest stand-alone solar energy production farm will be built on 12 acres of land in Kapolei. The Kapolei Sustainable Energy Park would be capable of generating about 1.5 megawatts of photovoltaic power.
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Residents harness energy from the sun (The West Australian: Tue, 22 Jan) Plans for a city solar power station may have been put on the backburner, but a Boulder neighbourhood has taken it upon itself to harness the clean and green energy source while saving money in the process.
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CEA, Jusung target high efficiency solar cells (EETimes.fr: Tue, 22 Jan) Seeking to accelerate the development of the solar industry, the Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials (CEA-Liten) and South Korean chip-equipment provider Jusung Engineering Ltd. have signed a two-year collaboration agreement. Amounting to 7 million ($10.1 million), it aims to develop silicon-based heterojunction solar cells of efficiency up to 20 percent.
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