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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Saudi energy firm plans to invest Rs6 billion in solar power project

The News International 21 Sep 2018

A Saudi Arab-based energy firm has planned to invest six billion rupees in setting up a solar power plant of 50 megawatts capacity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an official document said ... A Saudi Arab-based energy firm has planned to invest six billion rupees in setting up a solar power plant of 50 megawatts capacity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an official document said....

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How citizens drove Germany’s green expansion

The Times of India 21 Sep 2018

The pride of the village is a solar thermal system that provides heating to almost 200 homes, including those in the adjacent village of Kulz. The heating plant is fuelled by a small solar park and, in winter, wood cuttings ... The drivers of this energy transition, or ‘Energiewende’, have been ordinary citizens who seized on incentive policies introduced in the late 1990s to build renewable energy plants in their neighbourhoods....

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Hybrid energy to cut power rates by P4/kwh

The Daily Tribune 20 Sep 2018

Studies have shown that correct combination of diesel-fueled power plants and RE, like solar panels, could bring down electricity rates by P4/kwh in ... There should be a balance in using diesel-fed power plants and solar energy, as well as applying available technologies to bring down energy consumption,” Menke said....

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Habitat for birds? Or solar panels?

The Roseburg News-Review 20 Sep 2018

The rolling, nature-rich, 876-acre, city-owned Imperatrice property in the foothills across the freeway from Ashland have long been eyed as a prime spot for an energy-producing solar farm — but as the City Council studied it Monday, they got an earful from environmentalists....

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GOLDSTEIN: Good riddance to toxic Green Energy Act

Toronto Sun 20 Sep 2018

The GEA made Ontario’s energy grid less efficient ... The GEA led to the gas plants scandal, because the Liberals had to frantically build new natural gas plants to back up the unreliable power they were getting from wind and solar energy, then scrapped the gas plants planned for Oakville and Mississauga to save Liberal seats in the 2011 election....

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How citizens drove Germany's renewable energy expansion

The Times of India 20 Sep 2018

The heating plant is fuelled by a small solar park and, in winter, wood cuttings ... The drivers of this energy transition, or ‘Energiewende’, have been ordinary citizens who seized on incentive policies introduced in the late 1990s to build renewable energy plants in their neighbourhoods ... Solar panels cover 16 per cent of roofs from government buildings to homes....

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Press conference of TÜV Rheinland 2019 Solar Congress successfully held in Shanghai

Market Watch 20 Sep 2018

The White Books published cover the industrial development of PV modules, sustainable business model of solar power plants, application of energy storage systems and a series of in-depth investigations ... These enterprises have made a great contribution in developing the solar power plant industry of China, and played a meaningful role in global mid-high quality production....

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Holy Cross makes clean energy pledge

Post Independent 20 Sep 2018

For example, Xcel Energy recently received permission to close two Pueblo-area coal-fire power plants, which the company plans to replace with wind and solar energy, she said ... Also, technology to generate solar and wind power is becoming less expensive and new methods of storage to combat the intermittency problems caused by green energy are coming online, she said ... "Customers are asking for (clean energy)," she said....

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TurnKey Internet's company owned New York datacenter is 100% green utilizing our own on-site Solar generation plant combined with Hydro-electric power for the rest of our usage via New York's Recharge New York power system ... Using a dedicated on-site solar power generation plant, coupled with Hydro Electric power grid all energy used on our hosting services and colocation services are 100% renewable....

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West Kentucky to soak up sun with state's largest solar farm

The Paducah Sun 19 Sep 2018

Last year, five more solar plants opened, including three owned by Duke Energy ... The new solar plant would still, however, fill less than 10 percent of the group's energy needs ... The new solar plant's builders are Texas-based Open Road Renewables and MAP Energy, an investor in renewable energy projects with offices in Oklahoma and California....

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Groundbreaking ceremony held for first solar energy plant in Bình Thuận

Vietnam News 19 Sep 2018

The groundbreaking ceremony for the first solar energy project in the coastal province of Bình Thuận was held today ... ....

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Impose 50% of solar tariff as penalty for not buying power: Developers to MNRE

Moneycontrol 19 Sep 2018

At a meeting of stakeholders called by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, solar power developers proposed that discoms should be penalised 50 percent of the agreed tariff for the part of renewable energy that they refuse to use ... part of renewable energy that they refuse to use ... "There has been back down of operational solar plants by discoms....

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Amphenol announces solar farm plan

The Daily Star 19 Sep 2018

Amphenol Aerospace plans a multi-million dollar project to turn its former plant site in Sidney into a solar energy farm ... Amphenol Aerospace plans to abate, demolish and construct a five-megawatt solar farm on the site, which will provide the energy equivalent to powering 832 homes annually, the release said ... In an application to the Delaware County IDA, Amphenol Aerospace seeks tax relief in support of the solar farm project....

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