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.
First Solar power plant
It’s always gratifying when independent online news sites scoop the Big Boys of the MSM.
It’s especially pleasing when it’s your site that did the scooping. So, while we are proud of our story early yesterday on First Solar’s plan to build the world’s largest solar power plant in China, today we want to do what independent news services should be able to do best — provide our readers with more in-depth reporting than is available elsewhere.
We’ve put together a complete package of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between First Solar and China, including the detailed information First Solar filed with the SEC (click on the report cover below to open the pdf file). Continue reading
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:
