Japan’s Sanyo Solar Ark
Sanyo, one of Japan’s largest electronics companies, has come up with an innovative and beautiful architectural design that allows a large solar power facility to exist within Japan’s need for clean...
View ArticlePanasonic Buys Sanyo – Thinks Solar
Panasonic recently announced that it was going to buy Sanyo for nine billion dollars. As a part of the Panasonic group, Sanyo will help Panasonic bust into the growing solar market by bringing to the...
View ArticleAsia Leading the World In Solar Cell Manufacturing
Asia will produce over 80% of all crystalline silicon solar cells by 2012, according to Greentech Media Research. As of last year, Asia manufactured just over 70% of all solar cells on the planet. With...
View ArticleL.A. Voters Barely Reject Solar Power Measure B
The controversial Measure B was put to a vote yesterday and defeated by hair with 50.3 percent of L.A. voters saying “No.” Measure B would have mandated L.A.’s utility to include more solar power in...
View Article2.65M Solar and Wind Energy Jobs in Nine Years
A Clean Edge report released today says that the wind and solar energy industries will be responsible for generating 2.65 million jobs globally in less than a decade. This expected number is about four...
View ArticleOntario Paying Big for Small-Scale Renewable Energy
Back in 2007, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) looked like it was setting a wonderful green precedent when it adopted a feed-in tariff for renewable energy. This allowed people who had adopted their...
View Article‘The Age of Stupid’ First Solar-Powered Film Premiere
The Age of Stupid premiered on March 15 in London. The film is a drama documentary set in 2055 depicts a world that has been ravaged by climate change and the inability to react on the part of humans....
View ArticleRenewed Interest in Renewable Energy
The Obama economic stimulus package, which invested so heavily in renewable energy like wind and solar power, is finally having an effect on the green industries. In a statement to the NY Times the...
View ArticleTesla’s new batteries and sustainable home solar
Last week, Tesla’s founder (Elon Musk) stated that his company was moving in to the home solar business. This was a move predicted by many due to the construction of a gigantic new battery factory just...
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SolaRoad results are much better than expected
The first power producing road in history, dubbed ‘SolaRoad’ developed by TNO in Noord, Holland, has produced more power than expected. Steven Sten de Wit, a spokesperson for SolaRoad commented – “We...
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