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The answer, my friend, is basking in the sun	David Roberts	24 Jan 2005	Gristmill
Joel Makower does a quick review of the growing momentum of solar power on the world market, with high-profile moves being made by Sanyo, Sharp, Kyocera, and Mitsubishi. Then he turns to the U.S. solar market, which is lagging:Reclaiming leadership in the global solar marketplace will be no mean feat. As recently as 1997, U.S. solar companies controlled 100% of the U.S. market and 40% of the global market, according to SEIA. Today, U.S. firms control only 73% and 14%, ...
Topics: business, energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Sol Train Spain makes solar panels on new homes mandatory		10 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sol Train Spain makes solar panels on new homes mandatory Hoping to catch up to solar powerhouse Germany, sunny Spain has announced that as of next year, solar panels will become mandatory on new and renovated buildings. The government is shooting for a tenfold increase in the total square footage of solar panels by 2010. Domestic solar usage is low in Spain, though the country is a le ...
Topics: energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, solar voltaic power, Spain (all these topics)

She's Got Sol and She's Super Bad On finding solar-power stats	Umbra Fisk	16 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Are there any statistics that show what percentage of solar power is generated state by state, and which states are more solar-friendly? Also, do power companies give out any figures on how much energy they buy back from home solar producers? Thanks from Los Angeles, Calif. Dearest Los Angeles, Life is great. As your researcher, I get paid to find previously obscure (to me) gems like today's f ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Solar Perplexus On installing solar panels	Umbra Fisk	13 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My husband and I have decided to install a solar electric system. We live in the high desert and enjoy sun 360 or more days a year. We have been surfing to find information and are increasingly befuddled. Nanosys will have new technology out, but I don't know when. Should we wait a year or two for new, less expensive technology or go with existing solar panels? Kathy Joshua Tree, Calif. Dearest Kathy, How exciti ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, solar voltaic power, tech (all these topics)

Got Sun? Marketing the revolution in clean energy	Amanda Griscom	29 Aug 2002	Powers That Be
Last month, 10 solar-powered race cars zipped around a 1.5-mile NASCAR track at the legendary Texas Motor Speedway, some of them reaching the dizzying speed of 35 miles per hour. With all its technological novelty and timely political implications, the Dell and Winston Solar Challenge (named for the computer and cigarette companies that sponsored it) might have been a grand public spectacle. But the entire 155,000-se ...
Topics: advertising, Bill McKibben, cars, grassroots activism, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

The Little Solar Station That Could		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Little Solar Station That Could The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation, sits just one mile from the White Bluffs Solar Station. For the past three weeks, Energy Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's nuclear power producer, has been generating a tiny amount of electricity from solar panels at White Bluffs and ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Washington (all these topics)

Here Comes the Sun How the U.S. government could push solar power into the big time	Denis Hayes	08 May 2000	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair. The environmental movement has displayed remarkable strength since the first Earth Day in 1970. It has battled heroically to safeguard the world's health, diversity, and beauty, and it has been astonishingly successful. However, as the Earth's odometer rolls over into a new century, the Earth is facing a new threa ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Urban Bright		04 Aug 1999	Daily Grist
Urban Bright The Department of Energy wants to put solar panels on vacant, contaminated urban industrial sites, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will announce today. The project will get underway in Chicago, where a solar panel manufacturer has agreed to set up shop on a 17-acre former dump site, and the city and local electric utility have agreed to buy $8 million worth of solar pa ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Chicago, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

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