Last week Riverside county voted to impose an annual fee on large, utility scale solar installations. The board of supervisors unanimously voted in favor of a “Sun Tax” that will charge large scale solar installations an annual fee for every acre used for solar collection. With the property tax brakes already given to any scale [...]
The concept of sustainable architecture is revolutionizing the way both our homes and our commercial buildings are constructed. The primary purpose of sustainable architecture is to minimize man’s impact on his environment while still providing the comfortable dwellings and commercial buildings that humans have come to expect. The primary goal of sustainable architecture is to [...]
Solar Millennium AG sells off its 2.25 GW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) portfolio in American Southwest to Solarhybrid AG which will construct solar photovoltaic (PV) plants at the sites. According to Solar Millennium the conversion of projects to PV is a great step to achieve a “significant profit-share” and an opportunity to reimburse its entire [...]
Massachusetts based Evergreen Solar Inc filed for bankruptcy and its assets will soon be up for auction to the highest bidder. However, the United States Department of Energy is moving to prevent the sale of a particular patent held by Evergreen Solar. Researchers at the bankrupt solar company developed a patented method of manufacturing solar [...]
At the Spring European Council in Brussels, 2007 governments from across Europe agreed to set a binding target of obtaining 20% of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. At the time only 6.5% of energy was being sourced from renewables. However it seems European countries will not be able to meet this goal due [...]
