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On Solyndra the buck stops with Secretary Steven Chu
Politico

First, Chu counseled with experts inside and outside the department, as well as senior aides, before deciding to grant the California solar company's application for a $535 million loan guarantee in March 2009, DOE spokesman Damien LaVera said in an ...
 
US Could Become Geothermal Leader By 2020
PC Magazine

By Andrew Webster According to a new study from Pike Research, in less than a decade the United States will be the global leader in producing geothermal energy. The report predicts that by 2020 America's geothermal output will reach 4.2 gigawatts, ...
 
Constellation Energy Begins Construction on Maryland's Largest Solar ...
MarketWatch (press release)

"Utility-scale PV solar is a clean, affordable source of renewable energy in many parts of the United States beyond the Southwest, where it is typically thought of." In February 2009, the Maryland Energy
Administration, in partnership with the ...
 
Need a new roof? Solar power's included
CNET

OneRoof Solar is offering a new twist on the solar lease: when you replace your roof, you can get integrated solar panels with no incremental cost. The company today announced it raised a $50 million series A round led by the solar arm of Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group. The company also said it has secured the funding to finance solar installations at residential customers.


Electric car maker Tesla drops bid for Energy Department loans
The Detroit News

Washington— Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the start-up electric vehicle manufacturer will not seek any additional Energy Department loans. In 2009, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company received approval for a $465 million low-interest government loan ...

HEADLINES

Duke Energy Carolinas Issues a Request for Proposals for Wind Generation

MarketWatch (press release)

22, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Duke Energy Carolinas is issuing a request for proposals for energy and renewable energy certificates produced from wind generation that can be delivered to the Duke Energy Carolinas transmission system. ...
 
Solectria Renewables Sponsors Team Massachusetts in the US Department of ...

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Lawrence, MA – September 22, 2011 – Solectria Renewables, LLC, the leading US PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it is sponsoring Team Massachusetts in the US Department of Energy's annual Solar Decathlon by donating an integrated inverter ...
 
As Solyndra Execs Prepare to Take the Fifth, Company Blames DOE for Its Demise

New York Times

Spokesman David Miller wrote that, at the same time Solyndra was building out the production facility that its hefty DOE loan guarantee had helped fund, the landscape for its solar photovoltaic panels was in flux. Miller noted that those conditions led ...
 
Solar Decathlon 2011: Ohio State University, enCORE

EarthTechling

enCORE uses a flat-plate solar thermal system that works with a heat pump water heater for optimal efficiency, and has a solar thermal hot air system that provides comfortable temperatures while using a minimum of energy. The thin-film PV array is ...
 
Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending
Washington Post

As the $344 million factory went up just down the road from the company’s leased plant in Fremont, Calif., workers watched as pallets of unsold solar panels stacked up in storage. Many wondered: Was the factory needed?

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US Geothermal gets funding for Neal Hot Springs power project

Energy Business Review

Renewable energy company US Geothermal has received the first funding drawdown under the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) $96.8m loan guarantee to build a 23MW power plant at Neal Hot Springs in eastern Oregon, US. The Neal Hot Springs development ...
 
Inside Solyndra's Fall: Did The Department Of Energy Make A Massive Mistake?

Alternative Energy Retailer magazine

But when that solar manufacturer is the recipient of the Department of Energy's (DOE) first finalized loan guarantee and has hosted high-profile factory tours from President Obama, the news seems even more grim. Solyndra Corp.'s Aug. ...

Toyota Sets Nurburgring Lap Record for Electric Cars (Video)

Wall Street Journal (blog)

By Jonathan Welsh A Toyota electric car called the TMG EV P001 set a new lap record for electric cars of 7 minutes, 48 seconds around the roughly 13-mile Nurburgring race course in Germany. The “Ring” is a storied, demanding track that has seen the ...
 
BMW opens hydro-powered factory for electric vehicle bodywork

BrighterEnergy.org

Components from the Washington plant will be assembled into full vehicles in Germany. BMW said its all-electric i3 vehicle would have a life cycle emissions at least a third lower than for a highly-efficient combustion-engine car. ...

Volvo and Siemens will make electric vehicles

INAUTONEWS

Saving the planet by reducing the CO2 emissions or even cutting them down is every automaker's plan for the future and the latest partnership was signed between Volvo and Siemens, the two companies agreeing to produce electric vehicles. ...
 
Biofuel efforts continue with Blue Angels show

NavyTimes.com

Mabus is trying to put the Navy Department on pace to cut petroleum use in commercial vehicles in half by 2015, sail a strike group powered with a blend of alternative fuel by 2016, cut energy consumption ashore by 50 percent and make half of ...
 
Tough test for Japan's renewable energy strategy

The Australian

JAPAN is poised to undergo a radical change of direction on energy policy with both its government and its industrial sector belatedly embracing renewable energy. Deposed prime minister Naoto Kan strongarmed lawmakers into passing a feed-in tariff law ...
 
Department Of Energy Awards $145 Million To Solar - Solar Industry


Secretary Steven Chu has announced more than $145 million for 69 projects in 24 states that are designed to ...