Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Rebates, purchase plans brighten solar power’s future - Dallas Morning News
The promise of powering our homes with sunshine has never been so close. The cost of solar panels is declining, thanks in part to a new rebate program from Oncor. Within weeks, several retail electric providers should have programs in place to

Cheaper Materials Could Be Key To Low-cost Solar Cells - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2009) Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, according to a new study

UPDATE 1-REC delays Moses Lake expansion start-up - FXStreet.com
OSLO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Norwegian solar industry group Renewable Energy Corp. (REC) on Monday announced a delay in the expansion of its polysilicon production plant in Moses Lake, Washington, now expected to start up in late March. Shares in REC

The fight to get aboard Lifeboat UK - Times Online
When someone discovers, too late, that they are suffering from a serious and probably incurable disease and may have no more than six months to live, their first response is shock and then, in denial, they angrily try any cure on offer or go to

The sustainable human settlement - Jordan Times
One of the more fashionable terms to have emerged over the past few years is sustainability. The term is being applied to all sorts of contexts that initially concentrated on the ecological and environmental, but have come to also include the

TEP Provides Solar Power, Energy Efficiency to Extreme Makeover - Earthtimes
TUCSON, Ariz. - (Business Wire) Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is donating photovoltaic panels and a solar water heating system to a house being built in Tucson by ABC-TV s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition program. The Foothills-area house will be