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SunPower in deal for multiple US Government facilties

SunPower Corporation is to supply its solar energy technology for installations at several US government properties which include DoE's NREL, General Services Administration, the Navy and Air Force. These orders will total in no less than 20 MW of solar power capacity installations.
Over the course of these projects, SunPower will employ about 1000 people temporarily.
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CSP Today Secures Site Visit to NREL For CSP Project Development & CSP Yield Optimization Conference Delegates

CSP Today is delighted to announce the organization of an exclusive site visit to the CSP facility at NREL on October 27th and 29th in Denver. This will immediately follow and only be open to delegates of the CSP Project Development Conference and the CSP Yield Optimization Conference (Denver, October 25-28), and registration is now open.

Alcoa, NREL testing new innovative CSP system that uses aluminum instead of glass mirrors

Alcoa is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), with the goal of making CSP technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy.
The two parties recently installed a new Alcoa-designed CSP parabolic trough at NREL's test facility in Golden, Colorado [...]

NREL’s Open PV database tracks installations across the U.S.

There's a (relatively) new website made for those folks who like to keep up with all the PV solar installations across the U.S. It is a part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Website (openpv.nrel.gov) and there you can find a dynamic time map showing installation activity from 1998 to 2009.
In addition, you can see [...]