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1. Editorial: Energy Storage Critical to Solar Industry
  
  Explore Forbes Jul 21 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid
  
  At the Intersolar conference held last week in San Francisco, energy storage was covered in a pre-conference session, as if storage were an optional topic solar companies could ponder, rather than something critical to the industry’s future. Could it be that most solar folks are still [trying to understand] storage?
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  Mentions: California DoE Texas
2. How Renewables and Storage will Replace German Nukes
  
  Explore news24.com Jul 20 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Utility Grid
  
  Existing energy storage options are being maximised and new battery technologies rolled-out. With more than 17,000MW of installed capacity, Germany boasts more than half the world’s operating photovoltaic solar energy panels. More than 21,000 wind turbines, most of them onshore, provide another 27,000MW, while offshore development of a further 25,000MW in the North Sea is planned by 2030. By 2050, the country expects to generate 80% of its electricity using renewable sources.
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  Mentions: Africa Germany
3. Solar (w/ Storage) Will Move Appalachia From Coal
  
  Explore theenergycollective.com Jul 18 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid
  
  Figure 7 shows the decrease in the consumer price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for solar energy over time. This cost includes the cost to install solar, install energy storage (beginning in 2020), maintain the solar array, and building the transmission infrastructure. While this decrease may not look like much at first glance, it’s much more desirable than the dramatic cost increases in Figure 8 if we were to stick with coal.
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  Mentions: Kentucky
4. Brazil plans 600MW of solar plants by 2020 (storage?)
  
  Explore Bloomberg Jul 18 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  Sistema de Energia Renovavel, a new venture in Brazil, is planning to build 600 megawatts of solar plants by 2020 and expects the technology to be competitively priced with other energy sources within six years. SER will have completed its first 5-megawatt photovoltaic plant in the country’s northeast next year,
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  Mentions: Brazil NREL
5. House Approves Subpoena of DoE Solyndra $535M Loan Guarantee Documents
  
  Explore gigaom.com Jul 14 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a resolution on Thursday to move forward with a subpoena for the Office of Management and Budget to get access to documents about the Department of Energy's $535 million loan guarantee to solar maker Solyndra ... Solyndra has also raised around $1B in private equity.
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  Mentions: DoE Congress
6. SDG&E & SolarGen2 Sign 25yr, 150MW Power Purchase Agreement
  
  Explore SolarGen2 Jul 12 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid
  
  Solar Gen 2, a private solar development firm, signed a 25-year, 150-megawatt (MW) power purchase agreement (PPA) with San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. The photovoltaic solar project consists of three separate 50-MW sites where construction should begin during the first quarter of 2012 and expects to be completed by the third quarter of 2012. The Solar Project is located on private, fallowed land in the Imperial County, California.
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  Mentions: California Connecticut San Diego Gas & Electric
7. VC Cleantech investing drops by 1/3rd; New focus is efficiency
  
  Explore gigaom.com Jul 6 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  VCs pumped $1.83 billion into 161 deals in N. America, Europe, China and India during the second quarter of this year, down 33 percent from the $2.75 billion in the second quarter in 2010, and 10 percent below the $2.03 billion that private cleantech companies raked in during the first quarter of this year. While solar was the biggest draw in 2010, energy efficiency technologies have been steadily attracting more money and deals in 2011.
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  Mentions: California India France
8. Report: Solar Photovoltaic Market Will Reach $50B in 2011
  
  Explore Utility Products Magazine Jul 4 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  The use of solar power photovoltaic along with storage systems is becoming an alternative option to a direct grid connection. Energy companies and governments around the world will invest large sums of money in solar power photovoltaic infrastructure.
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  Mentions: GE First Solar Sanyo
9. Solar Thermal Markets Switching To Photovoltaic
  
  Explore Technology News Jul 1 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  Developers of solar thermal power plants are scrapping plans to use steam technology in favor of ever-cheaper solar panels.
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  Mentions: California DoE U.S.
10. First Solar is Largest Beneficiary of Fed Funding ~$4B
  
  Explore gigaom.com Jun 30 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  First Solar has become the biggest solar beneficiary of a federal renewable energy loan guarantee program. The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday announced three loan guarantee offerings totaling roughly $3.73 billion for First Solar’s three photovoltaic power plants in California.
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  Mentions: California DoE Scotland
11. Arista Bundles Wind, Solar, Storage & Inverter
  
  Explore ibtimes.com Jun 29 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Commercial & Industrial , Military
  
  Arista Power (formerly WindTamer) has developed a “Power on Demand” system that consists of a wind turbine, solar panels, power inverters, and specially designed “Smart” delivery battery storage system.
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  Mentions: Maryland Arista
12. ABB Pumped Hydro Makes a Canary Island 100% Renewably Powered
  
  Explore Greenbang Jun 27 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Mechanical Storage
  
  The project’s goal is to provide inhabitants with all the energy they need through a combination of wind energy, pumped water-storage power and solar-thermal and photovoltaic systems. ABB is helping to lead the project by providing technology to electrify and control the hydro-power plant and integrate energy from renewable sources into the island’s grid.
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  Mentions: Spain ABB
13. Opinion: The Alternative Energy Fallacy
  
  Explore Alternative Energy Stocks Jun 24 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Utility Grid , Lead
  
  The basic premise of alternative energy is that widespread deployments of wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles will slash hydrocarbon consumption, reduce CO2 emissions and give us a cleaner, greener and healthier planet. That premise, however, is fatally flawed because our planet cannot produce enough non-ferrous industrial metals to make a meaningful difference and the prices of those metals are even more volatile than the prices of the hydrocarbons that alternative energy hopes to supplant.
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  Mentions: A123 Ener1 Altair Nanotech
14. $1.4 billion DoE loan guarantee for 100's of solar PV rooftops
  
  Explore gigaom.com Jun 22 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  The DOE on Wednesday said it is offering a partial loan guarantee for a $1.4 billion loan that will fund Project Amp, which will erect solar panels on hundreds of rooftops around the country. The project is the largest rooftop solar plan in the country.
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  Mentions: California DoE Southern California Edison
15. DOE offers $359M loan guarantee to Sempra for solar farm
  
  Explore gigaom.com Jun 15 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday announced an offer for a $359.1 million loan guarantee to Sempra to build a 150 MW project in Arizona.
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  Mentions: DoE First Solar Arizona
16. Samsung to invest $5.5B in solar systems with batteries
  
  Explore Home: pv-magazine Jun 10 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  Storage is another key element of its future strategy. It is planning to have a range of rechargeable batteries for residential, medium, and large sized photovoltaic plants by 2015.
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  Mentions: Samsung SDI
17. "10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2011" finding support
  
  Explore reuters.com Jun 8 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Residential & Community & Microgrid
  
  The "10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2011" (S. 1108) will have its first public airing this month at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing … This measure is designed to be executed in tandem with SunShot, a DoE initiative unveiled in February. SunShot is geared at dropping the price of homegrown solar so it is competitive with coal and other conventional fuels.
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  Mentions: DoE U.S. Italy
18. Grid storage part of SolarTAC joint solar research facility
  
  Explore denverpost.com Jun 8 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid
  
  The facility, which broke ground in 2009, is intended to attract companies that want to build, test and research their solar technology, advancing the technology to the marketplace. SolarTAC — or Solar Technology Acceleration Center — is a joint operation among six entities, including Xcel Energy, Abengoa Solar and SunEdison. MRIGlobal manages and operates the site.
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  Mentions: Amonix Xcel Energy Colorado
19. Trojan Releases New Batteries for PV Systems
  
  Explore Domestic Fuel Jun 7 2011 Solar Photovoltaic
  
  The new line is designed for use in large off-grid PV systems, off-grid hybrid PV system, smart grid peak shifting systems as well as grid-tied PV systems with battery backup.
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20. Antigua removes tariffs on storage batteries & renewables
  
  Explore caribarena.com Jun 5 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wave, Tidal, Hydro , Wind
  
  Antigua and Barbuda Government waived duties and taxes on electricity storage batteries, and all solar power and hydro turbine items.
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  Mentions: Caribbean
21. Small Scale Solar Battery w/ Diesel Generator Back-up
  
  Explore solarnovus.com Jun 3 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Residential & Community & Microgrid
  
  WhisperPower in the Netherlands has developed a system to provide electricity without a (permanent) grid connection. The Grid Independer can deliver 230V alternating current (AC)/50 Hz, 7 kilowatts (kW) from the internal maintenance-free gel battery via a true sine-wave inverter and can be run in parallel with the WhisperPower diesel generator.
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  Mentions: Netherlands
22. IBC Solar and Dispatch Energy cooperate on battery solutions
  
  Explore Home: pv-magazine Jun 3 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Residential & Community & Microgrid
  
  IBC Solar and Dispatch Energy Innovations will introduce an intelligent power storage solution which incorporates a Li-ion battery … "Our battery was developed together with the Fraunhofer Institute and offers an extremely high number of load cycles as well as long battery life time”, explains Dietmar Gruidl, managing director of Dispatch Energy Innovations GmbH ... IBC Solar will present a second power storage system based on the proven valve regulated lead-acid (VLRA) technology.
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  Mentions: Germany Fraunhofer
23. Conergy unveils residential Li-ion solar PV storage solution
  
  Explore Startpage | Solar Server Jun 1 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Residential & Community & Microgrid
  
  On May 31st, 2011, Conergy AG (Hamburg, Germany) announced that it will present a new solar photovoltaic (PV) storage solution, consisting of an integrated string inverter and intelligent energy management system, at the Intersolar Europe exhibition in Munich from June 8th to 10th, 2011. The energy management system will be based on lithium-ion technology, and will possess a nominal power of 5.5kW and a storage capacity of 13.2kWh.
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  Mentions: Europe Germany
24. Military Wants Bases to be "island microgrids": Storage + Renewables
  
  Explore Nextgov May 31 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Military , Residential & Community & Microgrid , Utility Grid
  
  Energy officers at military bases are working to turn their facilities into "island microgrids"--entities that can generate and store their own electricity, independent of the surrounding commercial grid. … in the event of a blackout, it could continue to function on electricity generated on-site--largely from renewable sources. These include utility-scale solar arrays, backed up with advance-battery solar-power storage units and diesel generators … Energy experts say that the military's approach could also offer a new model for towns and cities, protecting them from regional-grid blackouts--and boosting local renewable-energy production.
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  Mentions: California DoE NV
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