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The US Department of Commerce has been deliberating over imposing duties on Chinese and Taiwanese solar PV imports for over half the year, but on Tuesday the Department finally announced its decision to penalize all Chinese shipments at a base rate of 165%, which could see duties jump past 200% in some cases. Specifics of the announcement are below, but

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Why are some of these new concentrating solar cell systems reminding us of the Eye of Sauron? Just wondering, because the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is out with a new solar cell specially designed for use in concentrating solar systems. The lab has already demonstrated the new solar cell at 700 suns concentration, and it is capable of getting up

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What’s the first thing you think of when you hear someone say Arizona? Heat? Sunlight? Well, apparently some of Arizona’s leaders don’t want solar power, even though there is plenty of sunlight year round. If you live in the Phoenix area and want to take advantage of all the sunlight with solar power, the local utility might be against you.

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An astonishing one out of every five households in Australia is now relying on solar energy, a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistic (ABS) reveals. Just 3 years ago only 5 percent of homes used rooftop solar panels or solar water heating, but today a full 19 percent do. To put that into perspective, by most accounts, fewer

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Water certainly isn’t our primary focus, but technologies that make our water cleaner are an important part of cleantech, and we do have 531 articles published on the category. Water purification and water desalination technologies are very useful and to some perhaps even interesting, but they don’t exactly put a spring in my mental boot… for the most part. One

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Figured confirmed by the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister, Amber Rudd, show that the country’s renewable energy industry served to displace nearly 38 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2013. The question was tabled by Scottish National Party MP Eilidh Whiteford, prompting Ms. Rudd to provide the statistics in question, which read thus: The UK as a whole displaced

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There has long been a huge gap in the solar market, a gap between large, utility-scale solar projects and rooftop solar projects. It would be a disservice to numerous companies, organizations, citizen investors, and solar-supportive politicians to say that there has been nothing between those two installation types, but this middle space has long been high on potential and short

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Recently, the city of Austin raised its solar power goal from 200 MW by 2020 to 950 MW by 2025. 200 MW of this solar power will be operating within Austin’s city limits and 750 MW will be utility-scale solar. Actually, the goal for Austin is at least 950 MW. For the 200 MW portion — the solar within city

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After a long absence after its recent acquisition at the hands of IHS, Solarbuzz has reappeared with its latest Asia Pacific Major PV Markets Quarterly report, forecasting the Asia Pacific region to reach the 10 GW mark for the first time in this last quarter of 2014. Annual solar demand in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is expected to grow

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In October Elon Musk unveiled the 691 horsepower Tesla Model S P85D, claiming this new electric sedan could accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.2 seconds thanks to the new Dual Motor Drive system. Tesla fans have responded with “off the charts” demand for the Model S P85D, and this month the first deliveries of this electric supercar

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