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| Blog - Obama Announces Nearly $2 billion for Solar Power |  |
| The money is part of loan guarantees administered by the Department of Energy.
Over the weekend, President Obama announced two massive loan guarantees meant to promote solar power manufacturing in the United States. The guarantees will make it easier for the projects to raise financing.
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| Central Indiana officials excited about solar panel maker`s pick of empty auto parts factory | |
| A solar energy company`s decision to take over a sprawling unfinished auto parts factory in central Indiana has local officials excited about the prospects beyond the promised 850 jobs. |
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| Activists Block Road To Wind Power Site | |
| STRATTON, Maine a `Maine Earth First, a national environmental group, says eight of its members who blocked the entrance to a western Maine wind power construction site were escorted offsite and issued warnings. |
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| Blog - Grätzel Cells Still Need Improvement | |
| Their inventor won the Millenium Prize, but they need to be cheaper to provide large-scale power.
This year`s winner of the Millennium Technology Prize, Michael Grätzel, director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has appeared often in Technology Review for his work developing dye-sensitized solar cells (also called Grätzel cells). The solar cells can be flexible, transparent, and tinted just about any color you`d like--features that make them attractive for consumer goods and windows. We wrote about the first product to use the devices last fall--a backpack with a solar panel attached to the back for charging portable electronics.
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| Brazil looks forward to cooperation with China in energy sector | |
| Brazil is planning to develop the hydroelectric resources of the Amazon River, and expects further cooperation from China, said the country`s Minister of Mines and Energy MA rcio Zimmermann on July 6. Brazil`s hydroelectric resources have huge potential, but only 30 percent are exploited, said Zimmermann at a forum in the Shanghai Expo Park. |
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| Baby steps on solar energy | |
| Georgia Power Co. has permission to build solar collectors around the state big enough to supply 1,000 homes with electricity when operating. |
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| AltaTerra Research Presents Global Outlook and North American Report Card for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs | |
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| JA Solar Reaches Supply Deal with MEMC | |
| JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. has entered into a strategic multi-year supply agreement with MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. Under the agreement, JA Solar will provide high performance solar modules beginning in the third quarter of 2010 and going through 2012. |
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| Transporation Problems Challenge the Wind Industry | |
| Transportation is one industry segment that does not get its due in the trade press, yet it involves some of the greatest challenges in wind farm development. A sessions at last month`s WINDPOWER 2010 Conference & Exhibition provided an excellent overview of those challenges, examining how the growth of wind energy, and especially growth in the size of wind turbines and their components, have affected America`s transportation industry. |
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