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Residents in UB's apartment complexes will be hoping for some sunny days in the near future.

On May 7, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the University at Buffalo unveiled what officials said would be the largest solar energy project in the state to date.

At a news conference in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus, NYPA President Richard Kessel and UB President John B. Simpson announced a $7.5 million award to the university for the construction of a collection of solar panels in an attempt to encourage renewable energy technologies across New York State.

The solar panels will produce 1.1 megawatts of solar energy for the campus and are set for installation near the beginning of the fall semester in 2010.

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As a blazing sun bore down this week, Southwest Florida got a sweltering reminder of true solar power.

With the intensity and frequency of its sunshine, Florida should be a world leader in harnessing this potent form of renewable energy.

Yet, the state has only a handful of commercial solar arrays, offers a paltry $5 million rebate program, and serves merely as a conduit for federal stimulus funds targeted to renewable energy projects.

Despite good goals set by Gov. Charlie Crist, Florida has done too little to increase the use and generation of solar power or to encourage businesses or jobs in developing, supplying or installing the equipment.

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Marissa Calligeros

June 21, 2009

An oversight by the State Government may jeopardise its plans to develop a source of clean, green, solar energy with the potential to power up to 400,000 Queensland homes.

The Bligh Government today flagged its commitment to building state's first baseload solar thermal power plant by 2020.

However, part of the State Government's Renewable Energy Plan, released today by Premier Anna Bligh, fails to qualify for funding under the Commonwealth's $465 Renewables Australia Fund.

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FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -- General Motors Corp. said Thursday it will install solar panels on a 300,000-square-foot services and parts warehouse in Fontana, Calif.

The panels will provide about half the electricity needed to run the facility and send enough electricity back into the grid each year to power more than 300 homes.



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GM did not disclose the cost of the system, which it expects to be operational in December. Fontana will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 355 metric tons each year, GM said, while reducing its electricity costs by about 10 percent a year.

Constellation Energy Group Inc. will design, build, own and operate the system. GM has a long-term contract to purchase solar-system electricity from the company. United Solar Ovonic LLC will manufacture the thin-film solar laminates.

The company has a similar sized solar installation at another service and parts warehouse eight miles away in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

"The solar panels in Fontana and Rancho Cucamonga will help us reduce costs and give our community access to solar power," Charlie Hyndman, GM's general director of warehousing and distribution, said in a statement. "It's a win-win."

GM shares rose $1.93, or 6.4 percent, after an upgrade from Citi, and Constellation shares rose 37 cents to $84.82.

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Science Daily — Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "The process is simple," said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations."


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Science Daily — Rice University scientists today revealed a breakthrough method for producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way for better, cheaper solar energy panels.

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