california solar power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:19:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 California's Rooftop Solar Power Reaches 1 Gigawatt https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-rooftop-solar-power-20111111/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-rooftop-solar-power-20111111/#respond Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:19:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21127 A new report made by Environment California, a statewide advocacy group, reveals that the state has hit a major renewable energy milestone: it is now home to 1 gigawatt’s-worth of rooftop solar power. Currently, only five countries were able to hit the 1 gigawatt installation mark to date: Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain and the Czech […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-rooftop-solar-power-20111111/feed/ 0 21127 Copper Mountain Solar 2: 150 MW Solar Power Plant To Be Built in South Nevada https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sempra-copper-mountain-solar-2-20110805/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sempra-copper-mountain-solar-2-20110805/#respond Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:52:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20003 California-based Sempra Generation has succeeded completing the construction of the United States' largest photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, CO. Now the same company wants to build the second solar energy plant in South Nevada, much bigger than the first one.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sempra-copper-mountain-solar-2-20110805/feed/ 0 20003 Google Earth-Based Solar Power Map Could Help Homeowners Optimize Solar Panel Placement https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-solar-power-map-20110113/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-solar-power-map-20110113/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=16731 Jan Kleissl, Environmental Engineering professor at the San Diego University of California, has been working with his Ph.D. student Matt Lave and other students at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering at the improvement of the solar map for the state of California, turning Google Earth into an accessible partner.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-solar-power-map-20110113/feed/ 2 16731 The Blythe Solar Power Project Approved by Federal Regulators For Building 1 GW Plant https://www.greenoptimistic.com/blythe-solar-power-project-approved-20101027/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/blythe-solar-power-project-approved-20101027/#respond Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:52:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11483 The Blythe Solar Power Project, that we talked about in a previous article, has been approved by the U.S. federal regulators. It will occupy 7,000 acres in Riverside County, California, and will generate more than 1 gigawatt of totally renewable energy.

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