
Solar could provide 10% of generation by 2025 - study
The Utility Solar Assessment (USA) Study, produced by clean-tech research and publishing firm Clean Edge and green-economy nonprofit Co-op America, provides a comprehensive …
Ritter, Xcel at odds over solar subsidy - EF News
Apr 15, 2010 · To encourage more customers to use solar, Xcel launched a program two years ago that offered customers a $2.50-per-watt renewable energy credit and a $2-per-watt rebate …
Turning dirty garbage into clean fuel - EF News
The problem: Walker Industries and the Region have tried - so far unsuccessfully - to turn that landfill's gas into cash ever since it closed eight years ago. "I've got to admit, the project …
Niagara tunnel will increase Ontario generation - EF News
By Firtsname Lastname | Company, if any Sign Up - FREE Newsletter NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO - Ontario Power Generation has granted a contract to an Austrian company to build …
Industry looks to LEDs for homes - EF News
Much of the industryÂ’s effort is aimed at making LED lamps that emit as much light as a 60- or 75-watt incandescent bulb. Cree, a leading maker of LEDs, showed a new version of its LED …
LED bulbs save substantial energy: Osram study - EF News
The Osram study “provides facts where we often have only emotional evidence.” Philips recently became the first entrant in the Energy DepartmentÂ’s L Prize, a race to develop the …
Falling silicon prices pressure thin-film solar - EF News
That, along with potential demand gains from a new solar subsidy in China, would further lower costs for Chinese manufacturers, who already boast processing costs of 90 cents to $1 per …
SunPower achieves new efficiency record - EF News
The researchers claim that nanotechnology, in combination with sunlight concentrated through mirror systems, can bring about the creation of the world's most energy-efficient solar cell, with …
Built-in solar struggles with cost, efficiency - EF News
And with cost leader First Solar bringing panel manufacturing costs down to 76 cents per watt and reporting conversion efficiency — the proportion of sunlight received that is converted to …
GE makes faster EV battery charger - EF News
The GE WattStation will be sold in 2011, and GE said a home version will be introduced later this year.