US Passes 10 GW Installed Solar PV Capacity Milestone
The US has reached an elite club, becoming only the fourth nation to pass 10GW installed solar photovoltaic capacity according to analysis by NPD Solarbuzz US Passes 10 GW Installed Solar PV Capacity...
View ArticleChina Becomes The First To Hit The 3 GW Utility-Scale Solar Milestone
China has surpassed the 3 GW (3,000 MW) milestone for utility-scale solar power production capacity. It’s the first country to do so and is sitting pretty at the top of the utility-scale solar...
View ArticleAustralian Solar Farm Performing Above Expectations
This article originally published on RenewEconomy This should probably be our graph of the day, but we’ve already got one of those on Western Australia’s wind contribution on Tuesday. Of equal interest...
View ArticleTop 20 Utility Scale Solar Countries
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The latest update of utility scale solar developments round the world shows that the US has just joined China as the second country to have installed more than 3...
View ArticleAnalysis: 50% Reduction In Cost Of Renewable Energy Since 2008
The levelized cost of renewable energy in America has fallen by more than 50% over the past four years, according to new analysis from global financial advisor and asset manager firm Lazard Freres...
View ArticleTop Utility-Scale Solar Builder Is First Solar, But Big Boys Climbing The Ranks
Originally published on Solar Love. US-based First Solar has led the utility-scale solar league for awhile now, but the latest statistics for utility-scale solar construction (EPC contracts) put it way...
View ArticleUS Comes Out Top In Utility-Scale Solar For 2013
The solar industry is dominated by statistics showcasing the Asia-Pacific Region’s dominance, thanks primarily to China’s massive output and demand. However, according to statistics published by...
View ArticleBlight To Bright: Superfund Site Gets First Ever Utility Scale Solar Farm
Yes, the newly completed Hanwha Q CELLS utility-scale solar farm at a Superfund Site in Indianapolis is the first of its kind and it illustrates a point we’ve been hammering on for a while now: solar...
View ArticleWhite House Announces $68 Million For 540 US Renewable & Energy Efficiency...
US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $68 million in funding Thursday for 540 US renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the nation’s rural communities. This legislation is part of...
View ArticleAustralia Falls Out Of The Top 15 Utility-Scale Solar Countries
RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up...
View ArticleGraph: Why 2014 Was A Watershed Year For Utility-Scale Solar PV In The US
Want to know why 2014 was such a watershed shed year for utility-scale solar PV in the US? Well you need look no further than the graph that we’ve posted below, as it really says practically everything...
View ArticleGCL-Poly Energy Holdings Plans 2 GW of Solar PV In China By 2015
Hong Kong-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited has plans to build 2 gigawatts (GW) of solar power plants in China in 2015. If all goes well, the company could achieve 3 GW by 2017. Many of these...
View ArticleUtility-Scale Solar Outshines New GOP “Architecture of Abundance” Energy Plan
Whether you call it the Architecture of Abundance or the Plethora of Pipelines, the new GOP energy plan ignores the utility scale solar surge Utility-Scale Solar Outshines New GOP “Architecture of...
View ArticleIs Australian Utility-Scale Solar Ready To Take Off?
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Some time in the next few weeks, the first electricity from the first 100MW solar plant in Australia will be sent out to the national grid. The connection of the...
View ArticleSolar PV Will Be Cheapest Form Of Power Within A Decade
Originally published on RenewEconomy. A major new study says policy makers and energy planners are still underestimating the cost potential of large scale solar, and that within in a decade, it will be...
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The First State To Generate More Than 5% Of Electricity From Utility-Scale...
Originally published on EIA. California has become the first state with more than 5% of its annual utility-scale electricity generation from utility-scale solar power, according to EIA’s Electric Power...
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Big Money Bets On Utility-Scale Solar — But We Still Heart Distributed Solar
From solar eclipse to solar leader: new report on global utility scale solar investment highlights US investors NRG Energy, MidAmerican Big Money Bets On Utility-Scale Solar — But We Still Heart...
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210 MW Of New Solar For Utah From SunEdison
Three new utility-scale solar projects will be installed by SunEdison in southern Utah with a capacity of 210 MW, enough to power about 36,000 homes 210 MW Of New Solar For Utah From SunEdison was...
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Look Out Coal, Here Comes Fast-Track Solar
The Obama Administration seems to be messing with someone’s minds, and we’re guessing that the US coal industry is its target. Late last week, the US Bureau of Land Management announced that it was...
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Construction of Florida's Largest Solar Plant Begins
[social_buttons]Florida Power & Light, the state’s biggest utility, broke ground today on what it says will be the first utility-scale solar investment in the state — and the first hybrid solar...
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BrightSource Splits Utility-Scale Solar Site With Giant Housing Developer
[social_buttons]It is easy enough for solar companies to sign contracts under new RPS laws requiring utilities to buy more and more renewable energy. But building any new power sites or transmission is...
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BrightSource Gets Department of Energy Loan Guarantee if Tortoise Issue Solved
BrightSource got a boost from the Department of Energy this week with a loan guarantee of $1.37 billion to help build three concentrated solar thermal power plants producing 400 MW of clean solar power...
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First Solar Buys NextLight for $297 Million
[social_buttons] Solar energy giant First Solar closed a major deal to acquire NextLight Renewable Power, LLC for $297 million this week. This acquisition gives First Solar access to a 1,100MW solar...
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Why We Need More than Rooftops to Win the War Against Climate Change
Many environmentalists claim that we don’t need utility scale solar in our deserts because we could simply solar power America from our rooftops. Technically, this is true. Most houses do have the...
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Small- AND Large-Scale Solar Needed
Well, I don't think it will come as much surprise, but following up on a CleanTechnica post from last month on the merits of small-scale solar compared to large-scale solar, I thought I'd share parts...
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Solar Thermal Panels, Practical but Not Yet Popular – A Solar Overview
Solar thermal panels save more and save more where it counts. The sun's energy is diffuse. It is always first collected and then concentrated. Solar thermal panel systems concentrate the energy in...
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Fluor to Design, Build, Operate and Maintain 125-Megawatt Solar Energy...
Fluor Corporation announced today that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II awarded it a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to construct a 125-megawatt solar photovoltaic...
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Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Solar Set for 60% Growth in North America in 2012
Yesterday was all about small-scale or medium-scale solar (in the US & UK) here on CleanTechnica. On the flip side, news today from Solarbuzz is that utility-scale photovoltaic solar is growing...
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New Utility-Scale Solar PV Inverter Technology Could Help Stabilize the Grid...
New inverter technology for ‘utility-scale’ solar projects can reportedly help (big-time) in stabilizing the electric grid 24/7. “A new inverter technology allows inverters to act as phase-shift...
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Nearly 200,000 GW of Solar Possible for United States, Finds New Study
A new study from NREL finds that solar photovoltaics and concentrating solar power could generate an enormous amount of electricity in the United States. The report is titled, U.S. Renewable Energy...
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Stimulus to Power Asia-Pacific Solar PV Demand to New Heights in Q4
A confluence of solar PV stimulus programs will power 80% growth in the Asia-Pacific region in Q4 2012, as demand shifts from Europe to emerging solar PV markets around the world, according to an NPD...
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Ongoing Sharp Drop in Solar PV Cost Overlooked Amidst Trade Wars & Insolvencies
Solar PV manufacturing and overall costs continue to fall sharply, but that's being overlooked as the media focuses on solar trade wars, price wars, scandals and insolvencies
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Utility-Scale Installations Lead US Solar PV Growth
According to EIA’s new survey-based estimate of total solar capacity, total on-grid photovoltaic (PV) capacity nearly doubled in 2011, led by particularly strong growth in both utility-scale PV and...
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Biggest Solar Power Company in U.S. Could More than Double in Size
With control over 320 megawatts of solar power generating capacity, Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources already calls itself the biggest solar power company in the U.S. (at least for now), and it...
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SunPower Quoting Utility-Scale Solar For 7–10c/kWh
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy (image added). Auctions of solar power contracts in the Indian state of Rajasthan have produced some remarkably low bids, with the lowest bid...
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Solar Robot Heads To Jail
Reposted from Solar Love (with minor edits): That has to be one of the most intriguing solar power headlines of the year. Fortunately, there’s nothing untrue about it (even if the story isn’t exactly...
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First Solar Buys 150 MW California Solar Power Plant (To Be Done 2014)
Reposted from SolarLove.org: The 150-megawatt Solar Gen 2 photovoltaic power project, located in Imperial County (California), was recently acquired by First Solar, Inc. The Construction of the...
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Germany #1 In Utility-Scale Solar, China Inches Away
This article originally appeared on Solar Love. New data released by the analysts at Wiki-Solar confirms what many would already guess — Germany is still the largest of the world’s top three...
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Utility-Scale PV Power Plants Are Now Cost-Effective In Oregon
By Chris Robertson Large-scale solar power plants are now economic in Oregon. This is one of the surprising findings of the Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association’s recently published “Vision to...
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