British Solar Renewables Limited has successfully secured planning permission for an 11MW solar farm in St. Allen, Truro. The land is part of an existing sheep and llama farm and, as well as providing the farmer landowner with a regular ...
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British Solar Renewables, the UK’s largest developer, owner and operator of solar farms has recently commenced community consultation for a proposed solar installation at Canada Farm, Winterborne Stickland. The proposed solar farm ...
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US-based thin-film solar firm First Solar reported first-quarter 2013 net sales of US$755 million, lower than the US$1.1 billion reported in the fourth quarter of 2012 but higher than the US$497 million reported in the first quarter of ...
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Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
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British Solar Renewables Limited has successfully secured planning permission for a 20MW solar farm on land attached to a waste management and recycling facility close to Bournemouth International Airport in Parley, Dorset. When complete, ...
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For the first time First Solar became the world's largest solar EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor in 2012, with more than 500MW of projects completed - an increase of 50% over 2011, according to IMS Research. The ...
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A solar energy project at the University of Sheffield which is celebrating its second anniversary has shown almost all of the 2,000 systems in the scheme are “doing what they say on the tin”. Researchers running Sheffield ...
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Orta Solar the team that have developed one of the UK’s largest Solar Farm portfolios to date, has today announced that it has been awarded planning on another 5 Solar Farms in the South of the UK. “I’m thrilled for our ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
We have learned that the application for the solar farm has been withdrawn, just one day before it was to be determined by the Fareham Borough Council’s planning committee. This comes as a surprise to our group as we have supported ...
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Mage Solar today announced the completion of a 1.12MW system for Martin Limestone Inc., a construction materials supplier providing aggregates, hot-mix asphalt, paving, and concrete products from plants in several locations throughout ...
Swindon Commercial Services Ltd, owned by Swindon Council, has partnered up with the Science Museum, which owns a former airfield just outside of Wroughton, to create a 40MW solar farm. The proposed farm will comprise 160,000 solar panels ...
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Higher Knapp Farm in Knapp near Taunton, Somerset has recently rented out a small percentage of its land to solar power generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy. The land will now accommodate a solar farm generating 1.5 MW of green energy ...
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