The newly released Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research confirms that the market took several important leaps forward last year.

A UConn associate professor has developed a new solar power technology called selective area atomic layer deposition, or ALD.

Renewable energy sources accounted for 41.14 percent of new electrical generating capacity installed in October and 46.22 percent for the first 10 months of 2012, according to the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects.

By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law There is no debate on climate change in Germany. The temperature for the past 10 months has been 3 degrees above average and we’re again on course for the warmest year on record. There’s no dispute among Germans as to whether this change is man-made, or
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More than 120 solar industry professionals attended SolarConnecticut’s quarterly meeting September 25 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven. Speakers including representatives from UI and CL&P on the ZREC tariff program and virtual net metering; RCKnox on lowering workers compensation insurance premiums for solar installers; CEFIA on its new solar
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While the media continues to cover the Solyndra “scandal,” the real story has developed almost unnoticed: clean energy is booming in the U.S., driven in large part by federal investments like the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. The report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association found that U.S. solar installations
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by Michael Trahan, Executive Director, Solar Connecticut, Inc. The state Legislature wrapped up the 2012 bill-making season this week. A redo of the 2011 virtual net metering bill was proposed but didn’t get a vote. A property tax waiver on commercial solar passed the state House but time ran out before the state Senate could take
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It may be easier for residents to purchase or lease solar panels in the future, if the town is chosen as a pilot community for the Solarize Connecticut program. The board of selectmen on Wednesday authorized the chief administrative officer to apply for the program, contingent on approval by the town’s energy committee. For more
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State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Dan Esty is trading angry words with representatives of the solar industry. During a keynote panel Wednesday at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s Energy and Environment Conference, Esty talked about making the transition from public sector support for the residential solar photovoltaic installations to private sector
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BRANFORD — The town’s participation in the state’s Clean Energy Communities Program has helped it obtain a 2.82-kilowatt solar system for the transfer station. For more on this story, visit: Branford transfer station gets 2.82-kilowatt solar system – News – Shoreline Times.

Project green energy: The Woodstock Green Energy Commission, along with the town and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, will celebrate the installation of the town’s newest solar panel system on Friday. The 24-panel, 4-kilowatt installation is at Woodstock Middle School. For more on this story, visit: Woodstock plans to cheer installation of solar panels –
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Satellite imagery company GeoEye has teamed up with Geostellar in a partnership that aims to map and catalog the photovoltaic solar potential of every commercial and residential property in the United States. Click on this environmental headline for more on this story from our friends at Environmental Leader.

The Branford Recycling Center on Route 1 is the site of the town’s most recent solar installation. For more on this story, visit: TheDay.com – Renewable Energy at Branford Transfer Station | Southeastern Connecticut News, Sports, Weather and Video | The Day newspaper.

Experts say whether residential electric-generating solar, or photovoltaic panels, make sense depends on myriad considerations, from your home’s location and the direction it faces to the age of your roof and tree cover in your yard. The systems can either be bought, the option chosen by Daniels and Miller, or leased. “It’s not like swapping
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16 January 2012 – As the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All kicked off today, United Nations officials called on governments, the private sector and civil society to help expand energy access, improve efficiency and increase the use of renewables. Globally, one person in five still lacks access to modern electricity and twice that
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NORTH HAVEN — The old town landfill soon will have a new addition that is expected to save the town millions of dollars: photovoltaic solar panels. The panels should be installed and start working for the town by the end of 2012, said Bob Landino, chairman of Greenskies Renewable Energy LLC of Middletown, a developer
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The second and final piece of an $18 million to $20 million project that includes nearly 18,400 ground-mounted solar panels in two locations in the city was ready to generate.

Solar panels will be installed soon on the roof of John Wallace Middle School, eventually providing discounted electricity and a learning tool for students.

“Be it enacted, by the Student Government Association that Renewable Energy Fund monies from Academic Years 2011-12 and 2012-13 shall be approved for the purchase and installation of solar photovoltaic renewable energy generation at Connecticut College if and only if the newly installed combined generational capacity is 45kW or greater.”

A proposal in the works for months to partially run Newtown’s wastewater treatment plant on solar energy must receive a wetlands permit before construction can proceed. The Inland Wetlands Commission is scheduled to officially accept the application Tuesday morning. For more on this story, visit: Solar Proposal for Sewer Plant Heads to Wetlands – Newtown,
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