L.L.Bean Installs Solar Panels at Flagship Store

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Excerpt: AUGUSTA, MAINE -  ­ L.L.Bean has long been recognized as an outdoor company with strong environmental values. In 2007 the company joined the EPA's Climate Leaders Program and formalized a corporate goal to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 20 percent by 2012. In addition to ongoing cost …

NASA Technology Translates Into Self-Cleaning Solar Panels

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Excerpt: Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists today present …

Tidal power next big step for renewable energy

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Excerpt: A tidal power system has successfully completed testing, a “huge milestone” for America’s ocean energy industry, according to its Maine-based manufacturer. Ocean Renewable Power Company’s $2 million underwater system has generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents in the waters off E …

President praises American manufacturing

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Excerpt:President Obama recently visited a Wisconsin manufacturer of large energy storage modules to learn more about renewable energy platforms, and highlight his clean energy policies. The President expressed praise for companies leading the way in clean energy manufacturing and helping the U.S. econ …

Peacing together green communities

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Excerpt: In support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), a partnership of Western Hemisphere governments, the Department of State will provide $1 million to fund Peace Corps volunteer efforts that increase rural access to energy, put the effects of climate change in check, and suppor …

Antifrogen Heat-Transfer Fluid Now Available In U.S.

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Excerpt: Hubbard-Hall Inc., based in Waterbury, Conn., has partnered with Germany-based Clariant Corp. to make Antifrogen SOL HT heat-transfer fluid available in the U.S. The product, previously available only in Europe, is being offered in ready-to-use concentrations, packaged in five-gallon pails and 55- …

World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Plant Gets The Green Light

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Excerpt: Solar Trust of America announced that its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium, LLC, has received a proposed decision from the California Energy Commission (CEC) granting the license to build and operate its Blythe Solar Power Project in Riverside County, which would be the largest C …

New solar energy conversion process could reduce the costs of solar energy production

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Excerpt: Stanford University engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil. A small PETE device …

NREL Releases Feed-in Tariff Guide

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Excerpt: With over 75 countries, states and provinces around the world with some kind of feed-in tariff, policymakers and researchers in the U.S. are considering the role for the policy in America.A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examines the growth and efficacy of FI …

Report: Solar Energy Cheaper Than Nuclear Energy

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Excerpt: The costs for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have fallen steadily while construction costs for new nuclear power plants have been rising over the past decade, which now makes electricity generated from new solar installations cheaper than electricity from proposed new nuclear power plants, acco …