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Delaware Passes RPS with Solar Carve-out (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2007 at 09:00:34
| The Delaware General Assembly passed a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) early Sunday morning that will require 20% of the state's electricity to come from renewable resources by 2019, with 2% of that energy coming from solar. |
PG&E Adds Utility-Scale Solar Projects to Its Power Mix (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2007 at 09:00:34
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has entered into agreements with two developers of utility-scale photovoltaic solar power: Cleantech America LLC and GreenVolts, Inc. The agreements will deliver up to seven megawatts (MW) of utility-scale renewable solar energy for PG&E's customers throughout Northern and Central California. Cleantech America's CalRENEW-1 project, located near PG&E's Mendota substation in Fresno County, will provide PG&E with five megawatts of energy and will represent one of the largest photovoltaic facilities in the United States. The GreenVolts GV1 solar plant, to be located on eight acres in Tracy, California, will provide PG&E's customers with an additional two megawatts of renewable power. Under the agreements, the projects will be completed in 2009. |
Mendota Solar Plant Planned (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2007 at 09:00:34
| A San Francisco company has chosen west Fresno County for a massive solar facility -- one that would be the largest in California and the leading edge of a potentially important new Valley industry. The project, if approved by Fresno County officials, would feature photovoltaic panels covering about 40 acres near Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s Mendota substation, said Bill Barnes, chief executive of project developer Cleantech America LLC. ...According to California Energy Commission records, it would be the state's largest unless overtaken by future projects before it opens in 2009. |
Oregon Approves 50% Solar Tax Credit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-03-2007 at 09:00:34
| Oregon's legislative session has ended -- and June 2007 will be remembered as one of the sunniest month on record. Building on the momentum of its new Renewable Energy Standard, Governor Ted Kulongoski recently signed several key solar policies designed to encourage solar manufacturing and the installation of solar hot water and photovoltaic (PV) systems in the state. |
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