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Africa
Here Comes the Sun: Israel Brings Solar Power to Angola!
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Nov 18, 2018 Angola is the latest African country to benefit from Israel’s cutting-edge technology. Israel has allocated $60 million to invest in the …
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Renewable Energy
Jayalalithaa’s pet project on solar energy falls behind target
thehindu.com - R Srikanth
Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s pet scheme to promote solar energy in households through a subsidy scheme has been left languishing in cold …
Nova Scotia
Solar energy program deserves more time to shine, say Halifax staff | The Star
thestar.com - Zane Woodford
The lower-than-desired uptake in the program means the program isn’t paying for itself as planned, either. A portion of the interest paid by property …
DW News
Farming
Doing Your Bit: The solar-powered unit helping farmers reduce waste
DW News - DW English
With a small machine powered by solar energy, the startup RenewDrive has helped small scale farmers reduce agricultural waste across Nigeria.
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Renewable Energy
BRIEF-Suzlon Energy Completes Sale Of Units Amun Solarfarms, Avighna Solarfarms To Canadian Solar Energy
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Nov 20 (Reuters) - Suzlon Energy Ltd SUZL.NS : * SAYS COMPLETED SALE OF UNITS AMUN SOLARFARMS AND AVIGHNA SOLARFARMS TO CANADIAN SOLAR ENERGY
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Interest Rates
Pennsylvania makes plans to meet new RPS initiative
pv-magazine-usa.com - Tim Sylvia
Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection has announced a new RPS initiative aimed at increasing the state’s amount of deployed solar and …
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Technology
Thin, Flexible New Solar Cells Could Soon Line Your Shirt
WIRED - Amelia Urry
The general rule when developing a new kind of solar technology is to expect progress to be slow. Take silicon solar cells, the most ubiquitous and …
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Renewable Energy
Finland launches technology neutral RE auction
pv-magazine.com - Emiliano Bellini
Finland’s Energy Agency has launched the country’s first technology neutral auction for large-scale renewable energy projects. It said wind, solar, …
Renewable Energy
Customer demand drives SRP to add 1 GW new solar by 2025
utilitydive.com - Author
Dive Brief: Arizona's Salt River Project plans to add 1 GW of new utility-scale solar energy to its system by the end of fiscal year 2025, and will be …
Renewable Energy
Reviving Solar: Centre Asks SECI To Release Tenders Covering 4000 MW In The Next Four Months
swarajyamag.com - Swarajya Staff
The government has asked Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to bring tenders of 1,000 MW every month, beginning from November 2018 till …
Digital Trends
Consumer Tech
Students who designed transforming smart home will compete in Solar Decathalon
Digital Trends - Clayton Moore
It’s so much fun to write about smart students who are using their big brains to try to change the world. This week’s discovery involves a …
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Belgium
Check your home's solar energy potential with new sun map
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A new online sunshine map of the Brussels region shows homeowners whether their property has potential for installing solar panels. The roofs of …
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Environment
Spain launches plan for 100% renewable electricity by 2050
inhabitat - by Perry Miller
Spain’s social democratic government has launched an ambitious plan to change the country’s electricity system by 2050. In an effort to completely …
SFGate
Heating System
Rubb Incorporates Solar Energy into Fabric Building System with Amazing Results
SFGate - PRWeb
Rubb innovates its fabric structures with a wall integrated solar air heating system generating free heat via renewable energy. The results are astounding. SANFORD, Maine (PRWEB) November 15, 2018 Rubb
School Administration
Wayland Union Schools looking into solar for energy source
mlive.com - By Karen Turko-Ebright
Wayland Union Schools is in the process of researching how the district could use solar power as a renewable energy source that could also save the …
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Renewable Energy
Distributed political power: Mayors for Solar Energy
pv-magazine-usa.com - John Weaver
Solar power has an important advantage that we all know well: it is able to deployed as a single solar module, or as a facility with a million …
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Renewable Energy
Tesla cuts prices on solar-power systems to push sales: report
MarketWatch - By Claudia Assis
Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.29% has slashed prices on its residential solar-power systems by as much as 25% in an effort to boost sales, Reuters reported …
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Solar Panels
Why India’s once-sizzling solar sector has cooled down
Quartz - Kuwar Singh
Poor policies are hurting India’s solar energy sector. In 2018 so far, there has been a dramatic decline in new capacity additions, and the trend is likely to continue. In the third quarter of 2018, the
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Renewable Energy
First U.S. Residential Solar Projects Turn to Output Insurance
Bloomberg - Brian Eckhouse
A tool designed as an insurance policy for solar-power generation will be used to manage the risk associated with U.S. residential systems for the …
MarketWatch
Renewable Energy
Fast-Growing Home Solar Leader Freedom Forever Brings Renewable Energy To Colorado Residents
MarketWatch
TEMECULA, Calif., Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Forever, the innovative residential solar energy installer, recently named one of America's …
Renewable Energy
California home solar installer sees Colorado as bright spot in the market, opens up shop
denverpost.com - Judith Kohler
A California-based residential solar energy installer that is ranked as one of the country’s fastest-growing private companies is expanding into …
Natural Gas
Study says Minnesota can economically reach renewable energy goals by 2050
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Improving economics should make renewable energy less costly, it says. Minnesota can economically get 70 percent of its electricity from renewable …
Water
Startup Pod(o) proposes a tiny-architecture solution to the festival industry's waste problem
archinect.com - Katherine Guimapang
With the increase in festival events and attendance, one company strives to fix the waste problem these highly attended festivals make. Based in …
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Renewable Energy
Solar Job Fair Planned Thursday At McCormick Place
Patch - Lorraine Swanson
Interested in a solar career? The Illinois Solar Energy Association is hosting a job Fair Nov. 15 at McCormick Place. Interested in a solar career? …
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China
Trina Solar Receives Top Rating in China for its IP Competitiveness
Business Insider - PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire
CHANGZHOU, China, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Trina Solar Limited ("Trina Solar" or the "company"), a leading total solutions provider for solar energy, has become the only solar energy manufacturer
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European Parliament
Solar PV sector hails EU deal on small-scale ‘citizen energy’
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EU negotiators reached agreement Monday evening (12 November) on a legal framework for “citizen energy communities” in a deal solar PV manufacturers …
Anton Prodanovic, Ph.D.added this to Solar Energy
Clean Energy
Two CCAs sign up for 128 MW of solar plus storage
pv-magazine-usa.com - Tim Sylvia
In one of the larger power purchase agreements (PPA) involving a community choice aggregator (CCA), EDF Renewables North America has found buyers for …
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Solar Panels
Alberta increases rebate rates for installing solar panels
edmontonjournal.com - Clare Clancy
The province is boosting solar power rebate rates for homeowners and doubling the cap on returns for businesses that install solar panels.The …
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Employment
Solar industry job fair: Illinois companies seek to fill openings in fast-growing field
Business Insider - PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire
CHICAGO, Nov. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The solar industry in Illinois is encouraging job seekers to attend the Solar Job Fair, set for Thursday, Nov. 15, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Organized by the
Solar Impulse
The Impossible Flight
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Transcript The Impossible Flight PBS Airdate: January 31, 2018 NARRATOR: A mission like no other: a plane, powered only by the sun, set to fly around …