A Native American tribe is building a $1B solar farm in Colorado
Electrek
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is going to build the Sun Bear Solar Project, one of the US’s largest solar farms, in Colorado.
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Electrek
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is going to build the Sun Bear Solar Project, one of the US’s largest solar farms, in Colorado.
Electrek
OCTOBER 14, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Bighorn Solar is now powering a Colorado steel mill almost entirely with solar. sonnen and Rocky Mountain Power pioneer a new battery storage and solar program. Shell’s solar platform Silicon Ranch acquires Clearloop.
Electrek
AUGUST 22, 2022
Denver-based Guzman Energy almost didn’t get approval for a solar farm it’s going to build in western Colorado, but when the wholesale power provider agreed to add irrigation to support 1,000 sheep and possibly host beehives, it then gained unanimous approval from Delta County, Colorado’s commissioners.
Baua Electric
MARCH 26, 2024
Photo: Pivot Energy Walmart is investing in 19 solar projects under development across the US, including 15 community solar projects. Walmart’s strategic tax equity investment will drive the construction, operation, and maintenance of solar projects across five states – Illinois, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, and California.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. competitiveness.
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2020
The Department of the Interior (Department) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have approved a proposal to construct and operate the largest solar project in United States history. The authorized solar facilities include 34.5 The authorized solar facilities include 34.5 The authorized solar facilities include 34.5
Electrek
MARCH 13, 2023
Thin-film solar panel maker Ascent Solar Technologies announced today that it’s going to repurpose its Thornton, Colorado, factory to accelerate industrial-scale commercialization of perovskite solar modules. more… The post This US solar company is about to ramp up flexible thin-film solar appeared first on Electrek.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 18, 2024
Photo: BLM The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of federal lands in the US West. Under the current policy, there are at least 80 million acres of federal lands open to oil and gas development, which is 100 times the amount of public land available for solar. million homes.
Electrek
JUNE 23, 2023
billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the US, and it’s starting in Colorado. to build US solar factories appeared first on Electrek. New US-India joint venture VSK Energy has announced it will invest up to $1.5 more… The post A new US-India joint venture will spend $1.5B
Electrek
JULY 24, 2023
The Swiss solar maker is diverting production equipment from Germany to the US to build a new solar cell factory in Colorado instead. more… The post Meyer Burger abandons German solar cell factory plans to build a US factory instead appeared first on Electrek.
EV Connect
AUGUST 9, 2021
Business owners, especially, can stand to profit from Colorado EV incentives for upgrading their fleets or business vehicles to electric, as well as for installing EV charging stations on their property. Colorado offers nice incentives for EV owners through its Income 69 program.
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2012
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy are publishing the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in six southwestern states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2017
All are from NREL; Crisp also is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines, and Pach and Marshall are affiliated with the University of Colorado, Boulder. We demonstrated that the same process that produces extra current in a solar cell can also be applied to produce extra chemical reactions or stored energy in chemical bonds.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2021
Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.
Green Car Congress
MAY 22, 2011
Sixty-five teams from 24 Colorado schools participated in the Junior Solar Sprint and Hydrogen Fuel Cell car competitions hosted by the YS Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The student teams raced solar or hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles they designed and built themselves.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Lightsource bp, together with Xcel Energy and EVRAZ North America , launched its new 300-megawatt Bighorn Solar project. The Bihorn Solar project is primarily located on 1,800 acres of land on EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel property in Pueblo.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2014
University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii will receive $3 million to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting. million to develop an innovative high-efficiency solar thermochemical reactor for solar hydrogen production. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Richland, Washington will receive $2.2
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a conditional commitment to Abound Solar , a manufacturer of low-cost, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, for a $400 million, seven-year loan guarantee to expand its solar module manufacturing capabilities. and begun commercial operations.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2015
At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2010
The US Department of the Interior has approved the 1,000 MW Blythe Solar Power Project, the largest solar energy project yet to be built on US public lands. The Blythe Solar Power Project uses parabolic trough technology in which rows of parabolic mirrors focus solar energy on collector tubes.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2023
The fully functional GMC HUMMER EV EarthCruiser upfit is making its public debut at Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado. The GMC HUMMER EV EarthCruiser upfit by EarthCruiser features: A carbon fiber EarthCruiser house fully integrated into the chassis of the GMC HUMMER EV Pickup.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 21, 2010
a provider of home solar financing, announced a $100-million tax equity project financing agreement to fund SunRun’s installation of more than 3,500 new home solar installations across the nation. SunRun offers home solar power without high upfront costs through power purchase agreements (PPAs) and solar leases.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2018
Via Mobility Services, a local nonprofit social enterprise, operates Boulder’s HOP transit route, a high-frequency shuttle service serving Boulder hotspots like the University of Colorado campus and Downtown Boulder. The long-term plan is that we’ll be able to fuel the vehicles with the solar energy that’s collected at Via’s site.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2012
The US Department of Defense (DoD) could generate 7000 megawatts (MW) of solar energy—roughly equivalent to the output of seven nuclear power plants—on four military bases located in the California desert, according to a study recently released by DoD’s Office of Installations and Environment.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2021
Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The center, called the Sun-Climate Research Center (SCRC), will be directed by Robert Cahalan, Head of Goddard’s Climate and Radiation Branch, Douglas Rabin, Head of Goddard’s Solar Physics Laboratory, and Peter Pilewskie, a LASP research scientist and CU professor. —Peter Pilewskie.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2012
Consortia researchers will leverage their expertise and resources in solar technology, advanced biofuels, and building efficiency. Details of the three winning consortia are as follows: Solar Energy : The consortium’s research will focus on sustainable photovoltaics, multiscale concentrated solar power, and solar energy integration.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2013
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration.
Creative Greenius
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
Alison Diaz (with scissors) along with ECHS staff and supporters about to cut the ribbon in front of Environmental Charter High School's new solar-powered greenhouse. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse. photo by Glenn Marzano).
EV Adoption
MAY 25, 2021
But except for the state of Colorado, the other 11 states accounted for from 0% to 1.7% These 12 “coal” states combined for a total of 10% of 2020 EV sales, but without the outlying state of Colorado at 4.3%, the other 11 states would account for only 5.7% of US EV sales in 2020. of US EV sales in 2020.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2017
19 projects will leverage the HydroGEN Consortium to accelerate the development of advanced water-splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. University of Colorado Boulder. Colorado School of Mines. GreenWay Energy, LLC.
Electric Auto Association
MARCH 4, 2021
The Electric Auto Association and Colorado-based Clean Energy Credit Union have partnered on a new member benefit. By joining forces for members to benefit from some of the lowest interest rate loans in recent times, they can borrow funds for purchases of an electric vehicle, hybrid vehicle, solar photovoltaic, or electric energy storage.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2013
A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. Geothermal Power Generation Solar Wind'
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 27, 2022
There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? The United States got the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Instead, that pure status is now reserved above all for wind and solar.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2020
The alliance also includes experts from the University of Maryland, Duke University, Harvard University, University of Colorado Boulder, UC Berkeley, Caltech, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of New Mexico.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
The selected projects include the following: Colorado School of Mines.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2020
It then models technologies such as solar, wind, batteries, or combined heat and power (CHP), and calculates the optimal system configuration with the lowest cost. Based in Boulder, Colorado, HOMER Energy has more than 200,000 users in more than 190 countries.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
As the technology improves, we see it enabling solar panels that work at night as well as day, powering remote sensors. Consider solar radiation, which carries heat from the sun to Earth’s surface. During the daytime, solar radiation comes into the equation. In a later experiment [bottom], a solar cell serves as the emitter.
Teslarati
MARCH 15, 2022
At the 15 locations, up to 60 Volvo-branded DC fast chargers supplied by ChargePoint will be placed at various Starbucks locations along a 1,350-mile route from company headquarters in Seattle to Denver, Colorado. Starbucks has plans to expand its solar pilot program to 55 additional locations this year.
My Energi
MAY 13, 2021
The only device on the market capable of utilising 100% green energy, surplus electricity generated by the distillery’s solar panels will be redirected to power visitor’s vehicles. myenergi is renowned for designing the world’s first solar compatible EV charger – zappi. Worlds First Solar Compatible EV Charger zappi.
EV Match
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
would like to do more to contribute to a clean energy economy – for example, investing in solar power for their homes – but cannot do so due to living in a rental property or apartment building. This model for solar is being rapidly adopted nationwide.” Never pay extra — the government makes sure you never pay more for shared solar.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2015
When we look at ways to efficiently store energy from wind and solar sources, lithium-based batteries are expensive and world-wide geological resources of lithium are actually quite limited. A team led by Sehee Lee at the University of Colorado Boulder will develop the new anode for the battery.
Teslarati
AUGUST 18, 2021
Sergeant Clay Leak of the Boulder, Colorado Police Department has several Teslas in his garage, but one at his job would have been a cherry on top. However, Boulder PD is looking to increase the sustainability of the Model Y Cruiser by offsetting electricity costs with solar panels. After a few months of diligence, Sgt.
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