April 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Diego is home to more than 2,600 solar residential rooftops – more than any other California city – but in the neighboring lower-income community of National City, there are only about a dozen. A bill [PDF] before the California Assembly Committee on...
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November 3, 2011, 5:35 PM
SunPower Corp., a San Jose-based solar power company that received a last-minute Department of Energy loan in September, announced today that it lost more than $370 million in its fiscal third quarter – more than double its second-quarter loss – and that its chief...
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September 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just weeks before Solyndra received approval for a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan, the Fremont, Calif.-based solar panel manufacturing company received a favorable ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, giving its customers a significant tax break. The U.S. tax...
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September 15, 2011, 7:17 PM
Washington D.C. – While touting its financing of Fremont-based Solyndra as a success story to the public, the Obama administration behind the scenes was worried about the political fallout of the solar panel company's possible bankruptcy as early as January and suggested it was time for...
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September 14, 2011, 12:05 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House investigators looking into the failure of Fremont-based Solyndra are likely to focus on why the Obama administration kept giving the troubled solar panel manufacturer taxpayer cash amid multiple warning signs that the company was in serious trouble – including...
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January 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
Just as Gov. Jerry Brown begins his term – after a pledge to create 500,000 green jobs – financial incentives are luring some California solar panel manufacturers to expand in other states. This week, two Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturers announced they would build factories...
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October 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
In a race for federal stimulus money, California regulators have approved two more large-scale solar power plants. That brings the number of plants to seven, with nearly 3,000 megawatts of combined power. In Imperial County, the Imperial Valley Solar Project will generate 750 megawatts....
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August 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
Although they haven’t gotten the go-ahead yet, several major solar power plant proposals in California have advanced to the starting line. According to E&E News PM, in just the past few days, the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management have issued final...
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August 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
California has approved and upheld the state’s first solar installation apprenticeship program. The California Apprenticeship Council voted 13-4 to reject an appeal filed by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to block the state’s approval of the program. ...
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August 4, 2010, 12:05 AM
A major breakthrough in harnessing the sun’s energy has just been announced by a team of Stanford University researchers. Instead of just harvesting light energy from the sun – or alternatively, just the sun's heat – the researchers found a way to combine the two forms of...
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May 25, 2010, 12:11 AM
A bungled financial plan has kept the Los Angeles Community College District from activating a newly constructed $25 million solar panel installation and has left the district scrambling to figure out how to pay for the project. District officials thought they could swing a deal in which a...
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