Solar Weathering Articles & Analysis

Redflow Limited, a global leader in clean energy storage, announced this week that its sustainable flow batteries have been funded and approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a large-scale solar and storage project, which will provide power for the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians. The 20 MWh system will be one of the largest zinc-based battery projects in the world and will ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Horizon Power, Western Australia's regional and remote energy utility, and PXiSE Energy Solutions, developer of next-generation grid control technology, have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind hydrocarbon-free power grid that enabled a town to power itself entirely with fossil-free distributed energy resources.In the world's first known instance of solar-plus-batteries supplying 100% of a ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The growth in solar energy has been dramatic in the U.S., but for the most part, low-income households unable to afford rooftop arrays or shares in solar gardens have been left out in the cold—that may be about to change in Colorado. Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, is proposing a plan for nearly 20 megawatts of solar arrays for low-income customers, enough for ...

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) (Pink Sheets: CMHXF) is pleased to announce that a large international airport in Latin America has chosen Carmanah A704-5 solar powered aviation runway and A650 taxiway lanterns as their lantern of choice for emergency back-up airfield lighting for both of the runways on the airfield. The value of the purchase was ...

By Carmanah Technologies Corporation

While standards for outdoor calibration techniques for solar radiometers exist, there are currently no general standards that deal with issues of indoor calibration transfers between radiometers of different design. A proposed new ASTM standard, ASTM WK27263, Test Method for Indoor Transfer of Calibration from Reference to Field Pyranometers, will address in detail issues associated with ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

If so-called “green collar” jobs will lead California out of its economic downturn, students at two East Bay high schools will be well prepared to ride the wave. Thanks to legislation sponsored by State Senator Loni Hancock, some of them will be the first graduates of “Green Academies,” three-year programs in high schools around the state to prepare students for the green economy. Berkeley Lab, ...

By Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory