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22 Sep 09

The SunCatcher

The SunCatcher

This has been the summer– and is now the autumn — of solar love here in the Southwest.

Last week we reported on the announcement by Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) that they plan to build a 25-MW PV solar power plant outside of Tucson. That’s nearly twice the size of the largest existing PV plant in the US today.

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18 Aug 09

Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson

Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson

I was disappointed when I discovered that the list of experts at last week’s Clean Energy Summit would not include Stanford University’s Mark Jacobson. Of course, no individual is indispensable at such a summit. But as the day went by I felt his absence more and more keenly.

That’s because Jacobson is one of the few scientists looking at energy’s Big Picture. How big?

In an article published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science earlier this year, Jacobson reported the first quantitative, scientific study evaluating the top energy sources based on:

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Filed under: All, CO2, Downloads, Laws, Media, Renewables, Southwest

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