The U.S. Interior Department is seeking comment on how it should issue right-of-way leases for competing solar and wind projects on government land. The department wants to establish a competitive bidding process that would bring “fair market …
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved Tuesday to boost renewable energy on both coasts, approving onshore solar and wind farms in the West and pushing for offshore wind power in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his …
Why the temperatures in the solar wind are almost the same in certain directions, and why different energy densities are practically identical, was until now not clear. With a new approach to calculating instability criteria for plasmas, Bochum …
The Germans have installed over 10,000 megawatts of solar panels in the past two years, enough to power 2 million American homes (or most of Los Angeles, CA). If Americans installed local solar at the same torrid pace, we could already power …
“It seems that the solar wind that was really energized … seems to have passed us by.” At its height, the storm was rated as strong-to-severe by NASA’s Goddard Space Weather Lab outside Washington D.C. The storm of charged particles from the Sun — the …
State utility regulators are free to require utilities to buy or generate power from solar, wind and other sources, even if that costs their ratepayers more, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a brief order, the justices upheld a decision by the …
ESKOM will later this month sign a €100m loan with French development agency Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) for its 100MW Sere wind project in the Western Cape, Eskom CE Brian Dames said yesterday. The loan draws Eskom closer to the …
Bhopal, Aug. 2 — NHDC, after having achieved considerable success in the field of hydro-power now has started diverting attention towards other sources of energy like thermal, solar and wind energy in Madhya Pradesh. Presenting the database of …
The flare was followed by an unrelated geomagnetic storm, which was triggered by fluctuations in the solar wind, according to Spaceweather.com , a website that monitors space weather events. As a result of the solar storm, skywatchers at high latitudes …
For the past 18 months, the widow, in her 60s, has been fighting the firm that provided the kit house, engineers and subcontractors. “When the wind blows certain directions, I have to get out. It scares me to death,” she said. “They can’t evict …