Solar energy

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis.

It is an important source of renewable energy and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic systems, concentrated solar power and solar water heating to harness the energy. Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and designing spaces that naturally circulate air.

The large magnitude of solar energy available makes it a highly appealing source of electricity. The United Nations Development Programme in its 2000 World Energy Assessment found that the annual potential of solar energy was 1,575–49,837 exajoules (EJ). This is several times larger than the total world energy consumption, which was 559.8 EJ in 2012.

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Citibank, Sunnyfounder team up for green energy

Taipei Times 23 Jan 2019

“Since its founding, Sunnyfounder has successfully called on 9,000 people to invest in and completed 45 citizen solar power plants, and we continue to promote our innovative green energy public service model by using the force created by the care and concern from businesses and ......

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NextEra fires ‘warning shot’ at PG&E over power contracts

The Los Angeles Times 23 Jan 2019

NextEra Energy Inc., the world’s biggest wind and solar ... Several companies that sell power to PG&E have also been downgraded, including a massive solar farm owned by Warren Buffett’s energy company and NextEra’s 250-megawatt Genesis solar plant in California....

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Georgetown electricity bills will increase Feb. 1 following revenue loss

Community Impact Newspaper 23 Jan 2019

When the city entered two long-term contracts with solar and wind energy producers, officials chose to buy more ... a 20-year contract with EDF Renewable Energy’s Spinning Spur 3 wind farm began in 2015, and a 25-year deal with Clearway Energy’s Buckthorn solar plant began in 2018....

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Global Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Industry

Market Watch 23 Jan 2019

23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Thermal Energy Storage (TES) in US$ Million and Megawatts (Capacity Installations) ... Thermal Energy Storage Pairing with Solar Generation ... Important Role of TES Systems in Commercialization of Solar Thermal Energy Plants ... Long-term Outlook for Solar Energy to Drive Demand....

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AMC budget of revisions, repetitions

DNA India 23 Jan 2019

The draft budget presented by the municipal commissioner Vijay Nehra was more or less nothing but old wine in a new bottle ... Is there any solution for Pirana? ... Sports complex at Naranpura ... Electric buses ... Lake and river rejuvenation, setting up of sewage treatment plants, solar roof tops, wind energy plant extension, etc, have all been proposed earlier....

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Work starts on VND3.5 trillion solar power plant in Tra Vinh

The Saigon Times 22 Jan 2019

... ground for the Trung Nam Tra Vinh solar power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh, with a total investment of VND3.5 trillion ... Trung Nam said that the solar power plant project was in response to the renewable energy plan set by the provinces of the southwest region....

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Forum: Climate change response must be large

Traverse City Record-Eagle 22 Jan 2019

If these plants are to be closed as the latest talk suggests, they obviously have to be replaced with some other forms of energy ... It takes about 5 acres of land to fit 1 MW of solar ... If we don’t find the land for wind and solar in large projects that are not only practical but economically affordable, we will see more and more natural gas plants....

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These 5 people changed their minds about nuclear power. Are you next?

Grist 22 Jan 2019

Yet here in the United States, utilities are planning to shut down nuclear power plants that are producing more than twice as much electricity as all the solar panels in the country ... As the years passed, she came to believe that plants like this produced the most environmentally friendly, and safest, source of energy....

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Blockchain Goes Big: 55,000 Rooftops Eyeballed For Peer-To-Peer Solar Trading

A Bit of News 22 Jan 2019

The new project is a partnership with the Japan-based solar installer Sharing Energy Co., Ltd ... Among other projects, Power Ledger has partnered with the major electricity retailer Kansai Electric Power Company on a virtual power plant initiative that uses the blockchain platform to leverage energy storage as well as solar energy generation....

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German minister sketches out energy transition without nuclear and coal

China.dot.org 22 Jan 2019

"It is a big challenge to do both," Altmaier said at the Handelsblatt energy summit ... To speed up the transition to renewables, Germany introduced the renewable energy law (EEG) that guarantees operators of solar plants or wind turbines for example a fixed compensation above market prices for their electricity....

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Oregon State Board of Trustees Approves Plans for Future Capital Projects

Cascade Business News 22 Jan 2019

At OSU-Cascades in Bend, the plan calls for land reclamation and campus development work, including construction of three academic/research buildings, a student housing building, a physical plant facility, a solar energy farm and a health and recreation center....

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OSU board OKs plan for new facilities, improvements

Corvallis Gazette-Times 21 Jan 2019

At OSU-Cascades in Bend, the plan calls for land reclamation and campus development work, including construction of three academic and research buildings, a student housing building, a physical plant facility, a solar energy farm, and a health and recreation center....

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Race is on by Michigan utilities to end coal use

Crains Detroit Business 20 Jan 2019

to begin replacing retiring coal plants, partly with renewable energy sources including solar and wind power, along with ramped-up efficiency programs to help residential and business customers reduce electricity use ... Consumers Energy has said it plans to retire its five remaining ......