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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), through its AEP Ohio unit, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to purchase all the output of a 10.08-megawatt (MW) solar energy facility to be built in Ohio.
Through the 20-year agreement signed with Wyandot Solar LLC, a subsidiary of juwi solar Inc., AEP Ohio will purchase all of the [...]

Fossil fuels are a relatively cheap and abundant source of energy for us. We sometimes can feel hopeless, and justifiably so, when gas prices skyrocket for seemingly no reason at all. At the stroke of a finger, the price of oil can be manipulated by a few powerful people, playing with us consumers like puppets. [...]

The government is investing millions of dollars in energy efficiency and solar technology, according to secretary Steven Chu.
This week, Chu announced that the investments will focus on three specific areas. The first, high efficiency vehicles, will focus on both trucks and passenger vehicles, with an eye on increasing efficiency for trucks by as much as [...]

PROVO, Utah–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Raser Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: RZ) announced today it will showcase its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Electric Hummer H3E, at the Western Governors’ Association Annual Meeting in Park City, Utah.
Raser Technologies and development partner FEV, Inc., of Auburn Hills, Mich., a leading automotive integrator, unveiled the demonstration vehicle at the SAE World Congress [...]

LOS ALTOS, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ — Photon Energy Services, a leading developer and integrator of solar electric generation systems, has unveiled plans to create one of the largest Catholic solar projects in America working in collaboration with the Diocese of San Jose. Partnering with 5 parish/school combinations and one cemetery, Photon will provide solar [...]

By Joseph N. DiStefano
‘Electricians, plumbers, roofers - we can put these people back to work,” said Rhone A. Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Resch’s group, based in Washington, is teaming up with IEEE, the electrical-engineering society, to cosponsor this year’s PV America (PV = photovoltaic = solar electric) conference and trade show at [...]