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Can solar play nicely with coal and natural gas? Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is working with Areva Solar on a concentrated solar power (CSP) "booster" to the 156-megawatt Unit 4 at TEP’s H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station in Tucson. The Sundt plant is a dual-fueled unit capable of using coal or natural gas. The Solar Boost Project will use Areva So […]

Greentech Media has provided detailed analysis of the SolarWorld China solar panel dumping trade claim and provided a platform for perspectives on all sides of this dispute. We've published more than 20 pieces on the topic since the claim was filed in October of last year. But in sitting with this issue for the last few months and with the help of a num […]

Silverado Power believes its approach to development can avoid the controversies impeding the advance of renewables in Southern California. In response to those controversies, major renewable energy projects got some not-so-great news from Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors in the last week of January. The Supervisors’ decisions threaten California Go […]

Honeywell has accused Nest Labs, the fancy new smart thermostat startup, of infringing on Honeywell patents that cover a huge range of energy-smart home functions -- and it’s asking a federal judge to force Nest and partner Best Buy to stop selling the devices. Given that Honeywell just filed its complaint in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on Monday mornin […]

A march toward LEDs is all but guaranteed according to many in the lighting industry, so it might seem like an odd time to jump on the bandwagon with “other” lighting. But that is just what Redwood Systems is doing. The Fremont, Calif.-based company announced on Monday that it has expanded its lighting controls product line to support all lighting fixture ty […]

All the “smart” grid gear in the world can’t help utilities very much unless they’ve got the back-end software to make sense of the floods of data those smart meters, sensors and other devices are delivering. But not every utility can afford expensive enterprise data management platforms from the likes of IBM, Oracle, Microsoft or SAP. Some would prefer to b […]