They then pay either a fixed fee or for the amount of electricity produced by the solar panels each month.
Shortly after, First Solar signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop the first phase of the project with China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development, which was founded the month after First Solar was awarded the Ordos project.
Solar Millennium filed for bankruptcy earlier this month while still struggling to close the deal, which involves three solar projects in California (two of which have won regulatory approval).
Bad news struck hard last month when First Solar CEO Rob Gillette resigned on October 25.
That prospect proved too much for IAU members who took the historic decision last month to redefine the Solar System.
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Solar Sailor will get another boost later this month when it delivers the first of four ferries to the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
During the month of January, Greece reported solar installations equal to one-third of what the country was able to achieve for all of 2012.
Meanwhile, solar is posting these sorts of enormous gains every month as it climbs the exponential curve to mass adoption.
It takes place on the nearest Friday to the seventeenth day of the month of Mehr, according to the solar-agricultural calendar.
Over the past month the company has new contracts for large solar projects in California and Nevada.
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But first, we haven't heard the last about the ignominious vote last month to strip Pluto of its place in our solar system - kicked out of the planetary lineup by a group of astronomers because it doesn't fit the new definition of what a planet is.
Last month, the US said it would increase tariffs on solar cells imported from China.
Turns out that Abound Solar had been producing 630 pounds of cadmium-compounds waste every month.
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Earlier this month, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit inaugurated the first solar thermal plant in the Kanchanaburi province of Thailand.
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Indeed, as I wrote at this blog yesterday, during the month of February, California has set a host of daily solar power records.
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Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.
Earlier this month, Fetzer Winery flipped the switch on a new installation of solar panels that cover 75, 000 square feet atop its bottling plant and barrel room in sunny Hopland, Calif.
It's taken more than six years of development, but a new imaging system for the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope finally started capturing images last month, and promises to aid significantly in the search for planets outside our solar system (otherwise known as exoplanets).
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On the greener side of things, Ceradyne opens a factory this month in China to produce gear used in the production of polycrystalline silicon for the solar power industry.
Whether the market views SolarCity as a solar company or a financial one, opportunities and risks abound, as I wrote last month when the company made public its S-1 registration statement.
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Earlier this month, researchers at a federal laboratory in Colorado announced they developed a one-step process that uses solar power to convert water into hydrogen.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
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