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The DOE on Wednesday said it is offering a partial loan guarantee for a $1.4 billion loan that will fund Project Amp, which will erect solar panels on hundreds of rooftops around the country. The project is the largest rooftop solar plan in the country.
Holy solar. Southern California Edison announced this morning that it has signed contracts with solar developers SunPower and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures to buy solar electricity for a total of 831 MW of solar projects.
Tessera Solar said Tuesday it has sold an 850-megawatt solar energy project in California that, up until a few months ago, was poised to be a showcase piece for the company.
First Solar (s FSLR), the thin film solar darling, has lined up another customer for the power generated at its planned Desert…
John Bryson, former CEO of Edison International (s EIX) and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, has a yen for startups…
A parade of 74 plug-in vehicles really makes you realize how entirely silent electric cars are. We stopped by Plug-In America’s parade…
UPDATED: Southern California Edison is set to hit a milestone today in its plans to install two square miles of solar panels…
It’s hard work to set up and supervise a teleworking team for some projects. In the web content service I run, I…
California utilities continue to snap up large clean energy contracts in preparation for the state’s aggressive renewable portfolio standard. Today, Southern California…
West Coast utilities Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and Portland General Electric announced this week a few initiatives aimed at…
Last Friday California approved a contract between utility Southern California Edison and thin-film solar maker First Solar to build a thin-film photovoltaic…
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved what it says is the first utility-scale thin-film solar project to be built in California,…
eSolar, the solar startup backed by Google.org and Bill Gross’ Idealab, said today that it’s inked a deal to build a 245…
If you’ve been living on the edge of Firefox, this won’t be news, but Firefox 3 hit another milestone last night: Release…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhdowflYzY] Instead of an audio podcast, we had time to record a brief video Geek Session here at CES 2008. Just a…
With the Consumer Electronics Show fast approaching, most sites are telling you about the coverage you can expect or what sort of…
…unless it makes you sad that it’s not summer. But it’s so catchy! The deets from Next New Networks: “‘Watermelon Nights’ is…
Kevin started it and it gave me a good think about the mobile tech I’d be thankful for. It’s a pretty short…
T-Mobile has an interesting Windows Mobile 6 slider on the way this week. In fact, at $149 the T-Mobile Shadow might make…
Tell me this hasn’t happened to you. Your PC churns and burns to download a huge-tastic file and just stops at 99%.…
Just two short months ago (to the day, no less) we mentioned Sona’s media player for Blackberry devices; looks like the berry…
In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage says Chuck Haas, the co-founder and chief…
Zimbra’s Ajax-based email is worth a look. It is one of the many dozens of companies that have popped up, and one…
No seriously…. because if that’s the case then I predict sun is going to rise tomorrow from the west, and the actual…
FCC Chairman Michael Powell is concerned about SBC’s TIPTop enough to issue a statement today, warning the Bell that FCC has got…
Tim Higgins: The upbeat mode that prevailed at the show was helped along by FCC chairman Michael Powell’s keynote on Tuesday. The…
