Category Archives: Solar Power

Hybrid Solar Outfitted Wind Turbine Doubles Functionality

  The prospect of wind power seems attractive, but you only make electricity when the wind is blowing. Solar can make power without wind, but not without light. By installing solar panels on the blades of wind turbines, scientists from … Continue reading

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California close to making its renewable energy goal a law

Even though California’s utilities have been scrambling to add in more solar, wind, geothermal and other forms of renewable energy to meet the state’s renewable portfolio standard—which requires utilities to source 33 percent of their power from renewables by 2020—they … Continue reading

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