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Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the North African Maghreb region. The companies - including Germany’s largest private bank Deutsche Bank, the electronic giant Siemens, the leading insurance company Muenchener Rueck, and the biggest German power companies E.on and RWE - are planning to invest some 400 billion euros (560 billion dollars) in installation, and
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Content Keyword RSS
Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the North African Maghreb region. The companies - including Germany’s largest private bank Deutsche Bank, the electronic giant Siemens, the leading insurance company Muenchener Rueck, and the biggest German power companies E.on and RWE - are planning to invest some 400 billion euros (560 billion dollars) in installation, and
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With financial markets still too slow to make loans, the Obama administration announced today it would begin distributing $3 billion dollars in direct payments to companies with renewable energy projects already planned. The payments, which will go to an estimated 5,000 renewable energy production projects, are in lieu of tax credits previously offered. “As we move quickly to get our economy back on track and to repair the financial system, we must make investments that lay the foundation fo
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Content Keyword RSS
With financial markets still too slow to make loans, the Obama administration announced today it would begin distributing $3 billion dollars in direct payments to companies with renewable energy projects already planned. The payments, which will go to an estimated 5,000 renewable energy production projects, are in lieu of tax credits previously offered. “As we move quickly to get our economy back on track and to repair the financial system, we must make investments that lay the foundation fo
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Ever since we assembled a 1.6 MW solar panel installation at our headquarters in Mountain View in 2007, we’ve been wondering, “Does cleaning the solar panels make them more effective?” We thought it might, but we needed to be sure. So we analyzed the mountains of data that we collect about the energy that these panels produce — after rain, after cleaning and at different times of the year. We have two different sets of solar panels on our campus — completely flat ones installed on carports,
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