The state of California is on its way to requiring utilities to store a portion of the renewable energy they generate for off-peak usage.
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Energy Storage Targets May Come to California Soon
Spanish company Grupo OPDE’s subsidiary Mecasolar, which designs, manufactures and installs solar trackers and other equipment for solar power plants in Europe and elsewhere, announced that by the end of 2010, it expects to have installed globally more than 22,000 solar trackers with a total power of 282 MW.
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Italian Solar Market Has 42 MW of Mecasolar Trackers
Even though solar is currently in the middle of a slow down when it comes to the manufacturing and the purchasing of panels and arrays, it still has the chance to become a big player in powering the world.
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Help Wanted: Government Incentives for PV and CSP
For decades, designers of solar power systems have faced a knotty set of interlocking challenges. Solar panels produce DC at relatively low voltages, but inverters require a relatively high input voltage to be able to convert the power to AC and send it to the grid
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Solar Array Design: Parallel Wiring Opens New Doors
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Teenage Industry Has Not Yet Left Home
