According to a recent press release, the Kittitas County Board of Adjustment has approved a permit for Teanaway Solar Reserve, 75-MW project capable of powering 45,000 homes.
Located 90 miles east of Seattle, the Teanaway Solar Reserve will be among one of the largest photovoltaic solar facilities in the world. The project is expected to will [...]

Brightsource Energy Inc., an Oakland, California-based developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced that the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) siting committee recommended approval of what will be the world’s largest solar energy project.
The project, called the Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System (ISEGS), consists of a three-plant, 392-megawatt solar electric generating system [...]

Masdar, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala investment company, will join two European companies, Total and Abengoa Solar, in spending $600 million on a new solar plant in the desert 75 miles from the city.
With a capacity when it comes onstream in two years’ time of 100 megawatts, “Shams 1″ will make only a small [...]

Professor of photonics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Michael Graetzel, won the Millennium Technology Prize of $1.07 million for his invention – dye-sensitized solar cells, which he calls “Graetzel cells.”
“The constraint of solar energy has traditionally been its price. Graetzel cells provide a more affordable way of harnessing solar energy,” said [...]

Rio de Janeiro was selected for the 2016 Olympics, and one of the centerpieces of its Olympic-specific architecture could be, if it wins the design competition, the Solar City Tower. Designed by Swiss architecture firm RAFAA, this incredible structure gathers solar energy to pump seawater to its top, and the resulting falling water spins turbines [...]

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department will invest more than $200 million over five years to expand and accelerate the development, commercialization, and use of solar and water power technologies throughout the United States. This funding underscores the Administration’s commitment to foster a robust clean-energy sector in the United States [...]

SunEdison have announced the project to build a photovoltaic solar power plant in Northeastern Italy, near the town of Rovigo.
The proposed solar power plant will have a capacity of 72 MW, making it the largest solar power plant in Europe. SunEdison finances, installs and operates distributed power plants using photovoltaic technologies. Expected to be completed at the [...]

IBM is merging with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, to create a desalination system powered by the sun that would pump 7.9 million gallons of water daily for over 100,000 people.  The new solar plant will be constructed in Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia and will rely on concentrating photovoltaic arrays to generate enough energy to power its [...]

Reliance Industries, an energy company, released a statement that said it has commissioned the country’s first one-megawatt solar plant to power a stadium to be used in the upcoming CommonWealth Games.
The company’s solar energy department, RIL Solar Group has “successfully implemented and commissioned 1-MW solar plant on the roof of the Thyagaraj Stadium here,” RIL [...]

Kaiser Permanente, which is the largest non-profit health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States has taken it upon themselves to do something good for the environment. The health care giant has announced plans to install 15 MW of solar PV arrays on their buildings throughout California, saying “what’s good for the environment is [...]