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Home Solar Power System – Should You Buy or Lease?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:28:55 +0000

Taking a look at residential solar power systems, a lot has changed in the last decade. True, solar power systems have been around for decades, exorbitantly expensive being just one reason why there weren’t a lot of systems being installed. Even five years ago, a 5 kW solar power system cost in the range of […]

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This is Google’s Biggest Renewable Energy Investment so Far

Mila Luleva — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:32:22 +0000

The tech giant Google is by far the biggest supporter of green energy. To date, the company has invested in numerous projects, from producing biofuels, investing in wind power and solar projects, all the way to exploring geothermal power resources. And just when we thought that their biggest investment in renewables has already been made, they […]

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Ford C-Max Energi, Now With Solar Power!

Benji Jerew — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:26:23 +0000

The Ford C-Max Energi is already one of the most-fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) that’s available on the market today. Adding solar power to the package makes it even more efficient! Like most PHEVs, the Ford C-Max Energi uses a combination of a small gasoline-powered internal combustion engine and electric motors. The electric motors, […]

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SunPower's Solar Panels Enter The Guinness Book

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:09:23 +0000

I didn't know the Guiness Book awards solar cell efficiencies lately. This story I read on Cleantechnica tells how SunPower, "the most popular solar panels company in California," got into the Guinness Book for providing people with "the most efficient commercially available photovoltaic modules on the market."

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Overwhelmed by Demand, SunPower Increases Solar Cells Production

Mike Sandru — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:03:34 +0000

Despite a continued increase of solar panels production at the Malaysia-based factory that will augment the megawatt production by 65% in 2011, Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower, revealed in a financial-related conference call that demand for the company's products exceeded supply both in the second half of this year but also going into 2011.

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SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:25:05 +0000

Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.

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1,000 New Jobs To Be Created by SunPower Corp., for Government Solar Powered Systems

Mike Sandru — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:21:01 +0000

The SunPower Corp. has plans to develop new solar installations for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, General Services Administration and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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SunPower Helps Sewage Treatment Plants Get Self Sustaining

Cristi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:18:55 +0000

Wastewater treatment plants are usually packed with industrial-sized aerators, pumps and other machines that usually use a lot of electricity from the grid. But SunPower Corp. developed a solar power system for the West Riverside Wastewater Treatment Plant in Corona, California that is able to generate one-megawatt of energy

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