GVC News

Wind energy job growth isn't blowing anyone away

Lindsay Buckley — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:51:44 -0600

Jim Tankersley, Los Angeles Times

PG&E gets approval for renewable energy pact

Lindsay Buckley — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:44:07 -0600

Staff Reports, Sacramento Business Journal

Solar module maker to set up headquarters at McClellan Park

Lindsay Buckley — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:44:13 -0600

Melanie Turner, Sacramento Business Journal

N Solar Inc., a newly incorporated U.S. company and a subsidiary of a Seoul, Korea-based information technology company, has signed a lease for 128,000 square feet at McClellan Business Park.

Moving parts for giant Burney windmills will be massive job

Lindsay Buckley — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:32:26 -0600

Dylan Darling, Redding Record Searchlight

As enormous as they are, the effort to move parts for 44 windmills set to take over the skyline above Burney this spring will be just as massive.

As many as 350 big rigs will haul the windmill components to Hatchet Ridge, about 50 miles east of Redding. Once completed, each windmill will stand more than 400 feet tall, said Joan Inlow, a construction project manager for Pattern Energy.

Earth, wind and wire: Going beyond solar panels

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:13:16 -0600

Chip Jacobs, Los Angeles Times

Constellation Energy commits $90M to solar projects

Lindsay Buckley — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:06:11 -0600

Scott Dance, Sacramento Business Times

Constellation Energy Group Inc. is setting aside $90 million to help businesses install solar power systems.

The money would be used to finance, design and build solar panels on commercial or government buildings. Constellation (NYSE: CEG) would own the panels but sell the power generated to the building’s occupants.

Roseville solar start-up gets federal boost to build new plants

Lindsay Buckley — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:59:06 -0600

Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee

Little by little, Sacramento is creating a green-tech economy. Tuesday, it made some important headway in the solar energy business.

Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:46 -0600

Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times

PUERTOLLANO, Spain — Two years ago, this gritty mining city hosted a brief 21st-century gold rush. Long famous for coal, Puertollano discovered another energy source it had overlooked: the relentless, scorching sun.

Solar Power to build manufacturing plant in Central Valley

Lindsay Buckley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:54:56 -0600

Staff Reports, Central Valley Business Times

Solar Power Inc. (OTCBB: SOPW) of Roseville says it’s making plans to build a manufacturing plant and a massive solar “farm” in Sacramento County thanks to the county’s commitment to $24.7 million in bonds funded by the federal stimulus act.

The manufacturing facility would build high-performance solar panels. The company has not said where the plant might be located or how many people it might employ.

A federal effort to lead 'green' technology

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:26:30 -0600

An energy research agency applies the same theory that led to the invention of the Internet: that government funding churns out radical innovations. Director Arun Majumdar talks about the challenges.

Jim Tankersley, Los Angeles Times

$90 million earmarked for clean energy firms

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:20:23 -0600

Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee

The California Energy Commission announced this week that it will oversee $90.1 million in programs to provide financing to clean energy manufacturers.

A stink in Central California over converting cow manure to electricity

Lindsay Buckley — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:18:25 -0600

P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times

Incentives to rise for home solar arrays

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:16:56 -0600

Margo Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times

Kern's wind energy boom 'a gold rush'

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:41:22 -0600

James Burger, Bakersfield Californian

The wind turbines that first started appearing on ridges of the Tehachapi Mountains in the early 1980s have been just a footnote in the energy story of power-hungry California.

Yes, the 783 megawatts of electricity those pinwheels produce can energize hundreds of thousands of homes.

But their impact is small compared to that of the state's two nuclear power plants, which churn out 4,400 megawatts, and by the energy generated from burning coal and natural gas.

California’s largest photovoltaic solar plant yet is turned on

Lindsay Buckley — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:23:58 -0600

Blythe, Central Valley Business Times

What's described by its owners as the largest photovoltaic solar power plant yet in California has been turned on and is sending electricity to customers of Southern California Edison.