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Portraits of the Solar Energy Market: How Key States Are Faring
A look at how states' solar energy markets are faring. With more than 3.1 gigawatts of capacity installed last year, the U.S. market seems healthy and continues to grow. However, some states are in better shape than others.[read more]
First Solar Crushes Solar Energy Efficiency Record
First Solar, the thin-film solar leader, just announced a new cadmium telluride solar module efficiency record that absolutely crushes the previous record, also held by First Solar.[read more]
Solar Energy News Roundup
According to Solar Freedom Now, “soft costs” are the main culprit why rooftop installs in the U.S. costs twice as much as it does in Germany – even though panel prices have dropped.[read more]
Libya Could Produce More Energy from Renewables than Oil
Libya could generate five times the amount of energy from solar panels alone than what it produces from crude oil, according to research by Nottingham Trent University.[read more]
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“I believe that the FF companies, since they have the money to do so at this time, will invest in the machine automation required to mass produce batteries and solar. The object is to extract the cheapest, most abundant sources for these new energy components.As something to think about, solar's growth averaged about 33% and as of 2012, was a whopping 78%. Now, if subsidies were reduced to where ...”
“It's pretty clear Alberta and thus Canada house certain political and financial powers that point to being the head quarters of the so-called 1%. I'm glad to finally see signs of people and organizations awakening from within the country. The only means we have to break the beast's ugly neck is to reject globalization and make ourselves as independant as we can from fossil fuels. ”