Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: January 26, 2011

World’s Largest Solar Project Receives DOE Loan Guarantee 300,000 Homes Weatherized in Recovery Act Milestone DOE, Commerce Department Form Renewable Energy Modeling Partnership DOE Promotes Clean Energy in Tribal Communities EPA Grants E15 Fuel Waiver for 2001-2006 Vehicles Delayed NASA Solar Sail Satellite Finally Orbits Oil Prices to Average $99 a Barrel by Late 2012 World’s Largest Solar PV Project Receives DOE Loan Guarantee A 290 MW thin-film solar project – expected to be the world’s largest – received a $967 million DOE loan guarantee. DOE’s backing will support construction of NRG Solar’s Caliente Solar generating facility in Yuma County, Arizona. The project, which will use First Solar thin-film solar panels, is scheduled to be completed in 2014. It will power about 100,000 homes and create 400 solar jobs. The Agua Caliente Solar project will deploy fault ride-through and dynamic voltage regulation, technologies that are new to US solar plants. The technologies improve the reliability and predictability of electricity generated by solar plants and supplied to the electricity grid. PG&E will purchase power generated from the project for California consumers. DOE, through the Loan Programs Office, has issued loan guarantees or offered conditional commitments for loan guarantees totaling more than […]

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