Articles Tagged with ''solar power''

REC Solar, a leader in solar electric system design and installation, has announced the completion of a 500 kilowatt community solar project in Boulder, Colo. The Boulder Cowdery Meadows Solar Array is the first community solar project completed under Xcel Energy’s Solar*Rewards Community program.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has released three new reports as part of its Green Proving Ground program, which tests building technologies in real-world situations to evaluate their potential to save energy, water, and reduce utility costs.

With projected total annual energy gain (with solar) of $123, the home falls safely into the zero net-energy usage category.

SolarCity® has opened its largest United States operations center in Riverside, Calif., to accommodate growing demand in the Southern California area. 

It may be possible soon to power products with peel-and-stick versions of solar cells, thanks to a partnership between Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). 

SolarCity® has announced a 1.5-megawatt (MW) solar power project that will bring renewable energy to eight Barstow Unified School District (BUSD) schools and facilities. The solar installations are expected to save the district $112,000 in their first year and roughly $5.3 million over the next 20 years.

ABM, a leading provider of facility solutions, has announced a joint venture between ABM Government Services and Building Energy S.p.A., an Italian-based independent power producer, to provide solar energy services to the large-scale commercial and utility-scale solar power markets.

The global electric power industry is evolving from a model that relies on large centralized power plants owned by utilities to one that is more diverse, in terms of both the sources of generation and ownership of localized generation assets, notes Navigant Research.

IKEA officially plugged-in the solar power system installed at its distribution center in Perryville, Md., which is the state’s largest solar rooftop array. The 768,972-square-foot photovoltaic (PV) array is a 2,674.9-kW system, built with 18,576 panels.

A team of researchers at Stanford University has designed a new type of solar reflective device that has the ability to cool even in full sunlight. Such a device could greatly improve the daylight cooling of buildings by reflecting sunlight away and back into space.