Solar energy is set to win the bid to build a $100bn solar power plant in the UK’s west.The consortium, Solar Energy UK, says the proposed site would be the world first to use solar thermal to generate electricity.It will also build the world and the UK first 1MW solar farm on an empty site,…
The solar energy industry is under a bit of a siege.The federal government and its contractors have spent billions of dollars in subsidies to solar energy companies, while state and local governments have been saddled with the bills of their own solar projects.The situation is so dire that solar energy contractors are suing the federal…
A solar energy collective in Canada is using geothermal energy to create solar power that can power homes.The solar energy group has been in the process of creating geothermal power in northern Ontario since 2010, and in October they took advantage of a solar eclipse to build a 1,000-square-metre geothermal heat pump and two steam…