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India’s Solar IPP Azure Power Collects $13.6M From Germany’s DEG
Amazon.com Widgets In light of the slowdown of the European solar markets due to economic uncertainty and declining feed-in tariffs, the global solar industry is training its gaze on other growth markets. Despite an uncertain policy outlook, the U.S. market will almost double to 1.7 gigawatts in 2011. The domestic China market is only a [...]
Black Silicon From Sionyx Raises PV Efficiency
A process known as black silicon can improve the infrared sensitivity of silicon and silicon-based photonics. MIT spun out a company called Sionyx to apply their laser-based black silicon process to imaging and solar. The firm just announced results that demonstrate a 0.3% (absolute) efficiency improvement over standard solar cells. Sionyx was founded in 2006 [...]
Amargosa Farm Road Switches From CSP to PV
The planned 500-megawatt Amargosa Farm Road solar project in Nye County, Nevada has been converted to photovoltaic (PV) technology. The change comes as a result of the firm solarhybrid’s acquisition of Solar Millennium’s 2.25-gigawatt project portfolio in the American Southwest. Originally designed as a concentrating solar power (CSP) project, the Amargosa Farm Road plant is [...]
Clean Power Finance, Now a PPA Firm, Gets a $75M Fund From Google
A few months ago we broke the news that Clean Power Finance was becoming a residential PPA provider. The firm just received a $ 75 million fund from Google to pursue that goal and finance residential solar projects. Google has invested more than $ 850 million in renewable energy and comes fresh off of creating [...]
Elegant On-Site Solar Power From ZeroBase
ZeroBase Energy builds a portable, small-scale solar-powered energy hub that offers an alternative to diesel generators for a variety of applications and environments. Henry Gentenaar, the co-founder and CMO of ZeroBase, along with his partner Zach Lyman, the CTO, have spent some time out of the U.S. with little access to power, diesel or otherwise, [...]
Six beauty recipes from the produce aisle
Rather than purchase chemical beauty products, you can turn to the produce aisle for ingredients to make your very own beauty products at home. Store-bought beauty products often include a laundry list of polysyllabic ingredients. Not only are these things hard to pronounce, some of them are downright harmful to your body. What’s worse, cosmetic [...]
DIY:gift bags made from fused plastic
Fuse colorful plastic bags together to make gift bags I got this idea from threadbanger.com what you’ll need: – old plastic bags (thicker colorful ones work best) – sharp scissors – sheets of paper (wax paper would probably work better) – an iron – your creativity enjoy! go green!
Is Cleaning Green Different From Green Cleaning
It may sound like semantics, but there is a difference between Cleaning Green and Green Cleaning. The first indicates that the janitorial services is using Green products. The second indicates that they are using a Green practice as well as Green Products. In the belief that Green cleaning is more than sliding in a line [...]
How to go from shovel ready to people ready in a green job market?
With the signing of the economic stimulus bill, there has been a rush to identify “shovel ready†jobs. But, behind the scenes, business and government leaders are grappling with the problems of being “people ready†for the millions of green jobs that will be created through the investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency. Meanwhile, [...]
Where Does Green Mountain’s Energy Come From?
Here the resources of Green Mountain’s Energy come from : Landfill gas contaminated with dozens of toxic chemicalsGreen Mountain claims to be using landfill gas as its primary source of new renewables. In early 1999, Green Mountain claimed to be using 4 specific landfill gas burners in New Jersey and Michigan. It turns out that [...]
