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[SLA Government Information Division] New Gateway: Open Energy Info: Current gateway topics include Clean Energy Economy, Smart Grid, Buildings, and Solar. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) maintains both Open Energy Info and VIBE.

[NREL News Releases] NREL: News - Solar Technology Acceleration Center is Powering Up: In the future, SunEdison plans to gradually increase the number and variety of module technologies deployed on the site and will leverage SolarTAC to validate new mounting systems, installation methods, and electrical configurations to minimize cost and maximize energy harvest.  SolarTAC will provide an invaluable test-bed to study forecasting, variability, energy storage, and reactive power control along with other methods and technologies to ensure safe and reliable interconnection of high penetration levels of PV on the grid.                

[zikkir] Solar Technology Acceleration Center Is Powering Up: NREL membership in SolarTAC will allow the national laboratory to better engage with industry to solve challenges in increasing the amount of solar electricity produced in the U.S. Among other projects, NREL will install a $2 million pilot-scale advanced thermal energy storage test and evaluation facility at SolarTAC to help improve heat storage technologies that can offset variability.

[SustainableBusiness.com General News] Colorado Solar Research Center Powers Up: SolarTAC originated when six public and private sector entities--Abengoa Solar (ABG.MC), the City of Aurora, the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, Midwest Research Institute (MRI), SunEdison, and Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL)--joined forces to build a site where member companies can bring their early commercial or near-commercial stage solar technologies for testing and demonstration under actual field conditions.

[Regional Gateway News] Carmichael Times-Community News: The SAR Scholarship Trust was founded 48 years ago to “promote interest in the field of real estate, and to develop closer relations between the colleges and the real estate profession.” The fund initially provided $100 to $200 scholarships for Sacramento students attending American River Junior College, Sacramento City College, and Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento). It now assists students pursuing real estate, business and a variety of other fields at many different institutions across the United States.

[Latest Activity on PickensPlan] Guides and Materials for New Members from "Communications Support ...: Long-term resource planning provides a potential framework within which utilities can assess carbon regulatory risk and evaluate options for mitigating exposure to this risk through investments in energy efficiency and other low-carbon resources. In this paper, we examine current resource planning practices related to managing carbon regulatory risk, based on a comparative analysis of the most-recent long-term resource plans filed by fifteen major utilities in the Western U.S. Energy efficiency and renewables are the dominant low-carbon resources included in utilities’ preferred portfolios.

[City of Aurora News] Executive Director Named for SolarTAC: R&D projects in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, among others. Abengoa Solar Media Relations Contact: Peter L.

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