Recently in Photovoltaic (PV)
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An indie band crowdfunds to solarize a popular non-profit working to change lives in Los Angeles, and promotes its new album along the way.
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Local opposition may have doomed a proposed 20-acre solar project in Hesperia.
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A new study suggests that low pay for Chinese solar panel workers isn't the reason that solar panel prices have dropped dramatically.
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Significant changes to a large solar project's design have prompted the BLM to go at least part of the way back to the drawing board with regard to the project's Environmental Impact Statement.
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Sometimes we hate having our suspicions confirmed. Look for thefts like this to grow.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute suggests a way that solar companies might entice homeowners to go solar: give them a whole lot of cash up front.
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A group concerned with the preservation of Native sacred sites in the Colorado River valley has charged that the Federal Government isn't reaching out to local Native people as the law requires.
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First Solar has identifed its two staff members killed in Monday's plane crash near its Desert Sunlight solar facility in Riverside County as Mike Cyr, 41, and Jeff Randall, 35.
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A small fixed-wing aircraft apparently crashed early Monday afternoon in the Riverside County desert west of Blythe, and police say that the plane was likely occupied by employees of the company building the Desert Sunlight Solar facility near Joshua Tree National Park.
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The 900-acre Catalina solar power plant in the Mojave Desert section of Kern County is completed. The plant's owner EDF Renewable Energy announced this week that the 143-megawatt plant has "reached commercial operation."
Commentary:
If a recent cease and desist letter that Southern California Edison (SCE) sent to rooftop solar activists was intended to make them go away, it seems to be having the opposite effect. Which could be a metaphor for utilities and rooftop solar itself, when you get right down to it.
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The upscale Sacramento suburb of Roseville will buy electrical power from a solar facility more than 260 miles south of the city, in a Kern County town more readily known for oil wells than solar fields.
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Manzanar was the site of a shameful chapter in California's history, where thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned on account of their ethnicity. Now a utility wants to cover up that history with solar panels.
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Duke Energy Renewables has owned a 21-megawatt solar facility in the California desert since April. This week, the company announced it's added another California solar facility to its portfolio. But this one isn't in the desert: it's in one of the foggiest neighborhoods California has to offer.
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Homeowners who have a little bit of extra cash when they install solar panels are often encouraged to add battery storage to their home system. But a Southern California utility just delivered some upsetting news to owners of those storage systems.
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A solar developer has just backed out of agreements to sell power from two solar facilities near Twentynine Palms that have been stalled by San Bernardino' County's solar moratorium.
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A new study of residential rooftop solar in the U.S. ranks California as the best place in the country for people who want to solarize their houses.
Technology:
We may be considerably closer to generating electrical power with the windows in our homes and offices.
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At no more than 14 megawatts of planned capacity, San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed Ocotillo Sol power plant is a lot smaller than many desert solar projects. But it's still got wildlife and cultural protection activists concerned: the project would occupy 115 acres of Imperial County's Yuha Desert that had been set aside for protection by the feds.
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We here in the Golden State are proud of our growing solar infrastructure, and rightly so. But two countries not necessarily known for their fabulous wealth have just put solar programs in place than make us look like we're not serious by comparison.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
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