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04/22/2012
The recent Commerce Department announcement that it would start levying duties ranging from 2.9 percent to 4.73 percent on imports of Chinese solar panels, as well as panels made in other countries that have Chinese-made solar cells, received much attention and mixed reactions from various players within the U.S. solar industry.
04/17/2012
An electric cooperative in New Mexico is boosting its solar portfolio in a big way, with plans to bring online in early May a facility larger than 15 football fields.
04/12/2012
A 1.5-megawatt solar photovoltaic array will help power 30,000 homes and businesses served by Kit Carson Electric Cooperative starting in May.
04/11/2012
Standard Solar has installed a 1.5 MW 5,280-panel, 14-acre solar array to power north central New Mexico for Kit Carson Electric Cooperative. The installation adds to 1 MW of power already being generated from concentrated photovoltaics.
04/11/2012
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) announced that with the addition of a new 1.5-MW solar array, anticipated to be completed in May 2012, all businesses and residences in north central New Mexico will receive electricity provided by solar power on sunny days. It is the largest area of land with the largest number of power consumers in New Mexico to be supplied with electricity by renewable sources.
04/11/2012
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has announced that with the addition of a new 1.5 MW solar array, all of the businesses and residences located in north central New Mexico will receive electricity provided by solar power. The 14-acre array, which was dedicated at a ceremony this week, will add to the power that is already being generated from the concentrated photovoltaic 1 MW array, located near Questa, N.M. Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has announced that with the addition of a new 1.5 MW solar array, all of the businesses and residences located in north central New Mexico will receive electricity provided by solar power. The 14-acre array, which was dedicated at a ceremony this week, will add to the power that is already being generated from the concentrated photovoltaic 1 MW array, located near Questa, N.M.
Read the full Renew Grid article here.
04/11/2012
The Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) has installed a new 1.5 MW solar array in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The project, called RCCLA Amalia Solar Array 1, will allow all businesses and residences in north central New Mexico to receive electricity provided by solar power on sunny days, according to KCEC.
04/09/2012
Whitmore Farm in Emmitsburg, owned and operated by farmers William Morrow and Kent Ozkum, recently became the latest Frederick County agricultural venture to install solar panels.
04/09/2012
Of all the elements of a U.S. solar installation, the grounding portion of the system may well be the most important. First, it is required to ground all PV systems.
03/21/2012
Many in the solar industry believe that low module pricing is what is driving the industry forward. But American solar manufacturers have stated -- and proved -- that China isn't playing by the rules. Experts explain and react to the case.
