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Oakland's bid to become a solar-power hub
2013-10-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: There are no white lab coats at solar-service provider Sungevity's Oakland headquarters. There are no hard hats, or equipment used for calibrating solar cells. Instead there are cubicles--some decorated with totally unnecessary leaf-shaped umbrellas--from which some 300 employees manipulate software and charm customers over the phone. Thirty miles north of the shuttered offices of solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra--which went bankrupt in 2011 after receiving $535 million in federal loan guarantees--Sungevity's...
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India Plans Subsidies to Boost Solar-Power Sector
2013-04-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: The Indian government will unveil proposed regulations Monday to create subsidies and expand a "Buy Indian" mandate to give a boost to its lackluster solar-power sector, putting it on a collision course with the U.S. The new rules will extend local content requirements, which so far have been restricted to a type of technology known as silicon wafers, to thin-film cells as well, Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary in India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, told The Wall Street Journal. The move...
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Mexico's Solar-Power Capacity May Treble This Year
2013-03-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Mexicos photovoltaic capacity could treble this year driven by the richest households and the first large-scale plants, according to the head of its solar lobbying group. Solar installations will at least double to 60 megawatts from 30 megawatts operating now and may treble if state-owned utility Comision Federal de Electricidad calls a tender for more capacity this year, Alvaro Lenz-Herrera, president of the Asociacion Nacional de Energia Solar, said in an interview. CFE has been planning a...
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