The Race to Develop Solar in the Southern Mediterranean

With companies like Munich-based Siemens (NYSE: SI), German energy giant E.On, and Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) collaborating to make Desertec’s Mediterranean grid a reality, Algeria’s neighbor Morocco has eagerly jumped on board…

Major Clean Energy Connections Move Ahead

Groups of major industrial players are now working to lay clean energy connections under the sea on two different sides of the world. First, the Desertec Industrial Initiative consortium of over a dozen mainly German companies is pushing for Europe to derive a large amount of its electricity from North African solar and wind power [...]

Obama Solar Push Boosts Spanish Company

President Obama announced a major push into domestic solar power development in his weekly address to Americans on July 3, but across the Atlantic, Spanish clean energy industry leaders were listening carefully. Spain’s Abengoa (Madrid: ABG), through its American arm Abengoa Solar, will receive $1.45 billion of U.S. stimulus funds to begin construction on the [...]

Yingli Solar Energy’s World Cup Ad Goals

As the World Cup gets down to its last few rounds, companies that shelled out millions for ad placement in South African soccer stadiums this summer are preparing to see how on-target their sponsorship shots were. Among the most prominent names to flash across electronic signboards on the side of the pitch during every match [...]

Silent Power’s Neighborhood Solar Batteries

Silent Power says it can link solar panels to batteries to make solar light up the night — and it has a pilot project in Sacramento to test out its proposition.

Ontario Solar Academy Triples Solar PV Training Capacity | Sponsored Post

Article sponsored by Ontario Solar Academy.

On the heels of 694 recently approved renewable energy projects in the province, Ontario Solar Academy (OSA) has established itself a new 8,000 square foot facility in Vaughan, a city just north of Toronto. The move allows OSA to run three times as many training classes every month – an expansion [...]

How home solar arrays can help to stabilize the grid, Part 1 of 2

Editor’s Note: Scientific American’s George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar). Read his introduction here and see all posts here .

Solar arrays can do more than feed energy into the power grid. They might also be able to help the grid cope with a problem many people aren’t aware of: the fact that electrical appliances not only consume energy, but also momentarily store and release it. The worst culprits are motors and transformers, whose internal magnetic fields represent a significant cache of energy, giving these devices a type of electrical inertia that causes them to get out of sync with the grid. To describe the problem and a possible solution, I’ve invited a two-part guest blog from Arnold Mckinley of Xslent Energy Technologies . Here’s part one.

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