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Solar energy companies are lobbying for new tax credits for domestic manufacturers that would come on top of subsidies included in the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year. The effort is unfolding alongside the Obama administration’s...
Tags: tax credit, Obama, White House, solar panel, domestic manufacturers, U.S, energy departments, Boise
The solar panel and equipment maker's expansion lately has sparkled against the backdrop of a dreary economic landscape in the Bay Area. The building that Fremont-based Solyndra has just leased will be used by the company to support the recently announced...
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Solar power business Sungevity Inc. raised $6 million in its second round of venture funding. The Berkeley company has tried to make buying and installing home solar power systems easier by giving quotes online based on aerial or satellite photos of roofs.
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A circuit court judge has sided with the city and developer in a lawsuit by a man who wanted to stop the Green Mount Commons development, which includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter, from getting taxpayer incentives. The plaintiff, Stephen Malec, secretary-treasurer...
Inspired by Stephen Hawking's discussion of ways to make static electricity from hair, Milan Karki, 18, of rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs, saying hair (due to Melanin) is easy to use as a conductor,...
Tags: Nepal, Invention, Cheap, Solar Panel, Human, Hair, Energy, Global Warming, Weather, Sun, Solar System, Solar Energy
Before requesting a replacement Medicare card you need to make sure that your home address is current and up to date with the Social Security Administration . If you have recently moved and did not update your home address with Social Security you may...
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In this brutal market for solar power products, no one is being spared. February that its short-term outlook "has never looked more difficult."...On its fourth-quarter conference call, the firm noted that a number of solar customers were "experiencing...
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SunPower, San Jose's leading solar company, announced layoffs this morning. "I can confirm that SunPower has made a small reduction in its worldwide workforce — approximately 60 out of 5,000," Stephen Wright, the company's director of corporate communications,...
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The Vatican on Wednesday activated a new solar energy system and announced an ambitious plan that could one day make it an alternative energy exporter. The massive roof of the "Nervi Hall" where popes hold general audiences and concerts are performed,...
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Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Monday unveiled an ambitious plan that calls for installing solar panels on residents' rooftops to meet 10 percent of the city's energy needs by the year 2020. "Our solar initiative is the largest of any kind...
Tags: energy, renewable energy, solar panel, environment, CPS Energy, Antonio Villaraigosa, solar power, Solar L.A., power plant, Los Angeles