Town of Leesburg officials announced that the Town has received funding from the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund for the construction of a 38-horsepower hydroelectric generator. The generator will use the existing hydraulic fall at the Town’s Water Pollution Control Facility outfall into the Potomac River to generate electricity. The electricity generated will be [...]
A worker oversees production at Abound Solar’s Longmont, Colorado, factory which got a boost from DOE. Credit: Abound Solar President Obama announced on July 3 a $400 million conditional loan guarantee to Abound Solar Manufacturing for the assembly of state-of-the-art thin-film, cadmium-telluride solar panels. With this project, this new manufacturing technology will be commercially deployed [...]
DOE has offered a conditional commitment to Abengoa Solar Inc. for a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to finance the construction and start-up of a concentrating solar power (CSP) generating facility in Solana, Arizona. President Obama announced the offer on July 3. Once operational, the plant will add 250 megawatts (MW) of capacity to the electrical [...]
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced today the site of the new Solar Demonstration Zone to demonstrate cutting-edge solar energy technologies. The Solar Demonstration Zone will be located in the southwest corner of the Nevada Test [...]
