Vanguard Energy Partners, a leader in the design and installation of large-scale solar electric systems, and Sharp Solar Energy Solutions, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, today announce the deployment of a 334-kilowatt solar power system at the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority (NBCUA) wastewater treatment plant in Waldwick, New Jersey. Completed earlier this [...]

Team California took the lead in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon by winning the architecture contest with a score of 98 out of a possible 100. A jury of professional architects praised the Refract House, calling it “beautiful in every respect,” and applauding Team California’s student architects and designers for its “excellent project [...]

Colorado State University will become one of the most recent educational institutions to meet at least some of its power needs with solar energy.
According to the university, it will install a two megawatt solar power plant at its Fort Collins campus, sufficient to meet 10 percent of its electric needs. The array will be located [...]

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar visted the High-Tech Solar Panel Plant
in Longmont, CO to call attention to a reinvigorated U.S. high-tech manufacturing sector. Salazar met with employees of an innovative solar panel company that has created more than 200 ‘green jobs’ in two years and expects to double employment by next year.
“Abound Solar and [...]

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A Williamsville firm will handle most of the work on a $7.5 million contract to install a massive solar panel system at the University at Buffalo, designed to provide “green” energy to student apartments, the New York Power Authority said Monday.
Solar Liberty will work in conjunction with a Canadian firm to set up the system, [...]

Consumers across the country are expected to see the cost of solar energy products fall in the next year, with help from the growing number of U.S-based manufacturing facilities.
This week, Vice President Joe Biden visited the Toledo area to call attention to the growing importance of solar energy when it comes to reviving the nation’s [...]

Semprius, which landed $6.5 million in venture capital financing last month, has won $500,000 in federal stimulus money to help fund the development of its solar-energy technology, the Durham company said Wednesday.
CEO Joe Carr says Semprius will direct the money into its ongoing efforts to engineer a more efficient and inexpensive type of solar panel.
Conventional [...]

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North Carolina residents may be getting a glimpse of the future of clean and efficient energy in the form of an area utility’s new smart grid/solar plan.
According to Duke Energy, it will deploy an array of 213 solar photovoltaic panels with an eye on creating a “virtual power plant” that will combine elements of clean [...]