Little also pointed out that GE has significant experience in wind energy, solar, and in nuclear power.
But one of the biggest breakthroughs in clean energy was actually in solar power, as designers at Rawlemon created a spherical, sun-tracking glass globe that's able to concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10, 000 times.
Personally, I just think that solar makes the most sense as an energy technology, and the tech innovations in solar power are such that I expect it to be the most common source of power before the century is out.
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While the United States was once a pioneer in developing and commercializing clean energy technologies, from solar cells to nuclear power, we now lag behind our competitors in Asia and Europe in the production of virtually all clean technologies.
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Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California.
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Eat your Energy Efficiency vegetables before indulging in a solar power dessert.
How do you align molecular biology and algorithmic algebra with a career in energy efficiency, retrofitting, solar power, power consumption, and further, corporate reputation, building trust and promoting ethical business?
Carboy explained that in Europe, energy tariffs are "feed-in tariffs, " where customers who produce their own solar energy can sell back surplus power at premium rates.
We should heavily invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, and we must dramatically increase the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings -- which also would lower our electric bills.
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Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
For example, Lisa McNeilly, a collaborator on the report, said it might be cheaper for a rural town that currently does not have electricity to construct a wind or solar energy facility in the village instead of wiring in electricity from a power plant located a hundred miles away.
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The watch's screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making it less likely to malfunction or run out of power in a tense scenario.
While we continue to believe that the significant opportunities to meet global energy needs with solar power will drive long-term market growth, in the near-term we expect challenging conditions in the solar industry to continue.
Given the risks of aiming such a powerful beam of high-intensity radiation at an Earth ground station, as well as the cost of building billions of dollars in infrastructure to collect the energy in space, the efficiencies you can get from terrestrial solar power seem a safer bet--at least for now.
"Our potential in thermal solar power is four times the world's energy consumption, so you can have all the ambitions you want with that, " Tewfik Hasni, managing director of New Energy Algeria, or NEAL, a company created by the Algerian government in 2002 to develop renewable energy, told the Associated Press last year.
Solar power is not seen as a priority, even in alternative energy conscious Europe.
The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.
Resch mentioned that he's spent several mornings this week attending delegation breakfasts from states like Alabama, where incumbent power companies have been less than keen to invest in solar energy.
Solar energy (not much use in cloudy Germany) would get less, while offshore wind power would get more.
The Nairobi UN building has the largest solar power installation in Africa and has provided a valuable lesson in renewable energy investments.
Subsidies for renewable energy will be rejigged in the hope of encouraging technologies, such as solar or wave power, that are not yet competitive.
The confusion behind energy subsidies coupled with slanted media coverage has resulted in a myth that solar power is not cost competitive and is dependent on government subsidies.
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The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
Saudi Arabia is the newest and hottest solar power market to attract the attention of emerging leaders in the solar-energy space.
Wartena started GELI in 2010 to tackle the emerging markets of storing renewable energy such as solar power and for managing electric car charging.
Keller says that as the project grows, community members trained in maintaining and repairing the solar power systems will be able to sell affordable energy to other residents.
With the recent tragedy in Japan likely to stall plans for further deployment of nuclear power, and alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal still in their nascent stages, we anticipate years of price sensitivity.
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Wittbecker said India is in talks to develop more solar energy and is also looking at more hydropower and nuclear power, but by and large India is still dependent on coal and will be for the foreseeable future.
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Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
While there is no doubt that wind, solar and geothermal have ample energy to power the planet--the sunlight that hits Earth in a single hour contains enough energy to fuel the human population for a year--they will need years to mature before they reach anything approaching their potential.
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