South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday officially launched the National Solar Water Heating (SWH) programme in Winterveldt, north-west of Pretoria, where some 270 SWH units have already been installed.
The government has the ambition of installing one-million solar water heaters across South Africa by 2014, and is aiming [...]
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Amonix isn’t a name that has been kicked around a great deal yet in cleantech circles, but that’s rapidly changing this week. The Silicon Valley company is touting a $129.4 million investment into a solar technology that can be simultaneously described by two opposing words: gigantic and tiny.
Take a look at the [...]
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Yesterday, the “First Light” images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope
designed to study the sun were shown. They are incredible!
According to NASA “SDO is the first mission of NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program. The goal of LWS is to understand the sun as a magnetic [...]
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Bill Spinney got some unwelcome news in the mail recently.
“Last month’s electric bill was $14, which was kind of high,” he said recently. “My wife and I are trying to figure it out. Maybe we left some lights on or something.”
That was not a misprint. [...]
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Utahns who want to tap the sun and wind for energy might be eligible for cash rebates of up to nearly $5,000.
The money — which Utahns now can apply for — would come from the state’s share of the federal stimulus aimed at renewable energy.
It [...]
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By Christopher Martin
April 20 (Bloomberg) — Global sales of solar power panels will jump 94 percent this year as developers rush to install systems before cuts in government incentives, according to industry publisher Isuppli.
Solar installations may climb to 13,600 megawatts this year, up from 7,000 [...]
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