THIN FILM SOLAR PANELS

Archive for May, 2010

Choosing the best shipping service can be difficult. I know that every time I ever had to do so, I felt a little clueless as to what company I should choose.

I don’t live in the US anymore, but I know how I would go about this now if I did. An online shipping service I found out about recently looks like it would get you the cheapest and one of the greenest deals out there.

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The utility company National Grid has teamed up with solar specialist Rivermoor Energy to build a 1-megawatt solar array at a former industrial site in Haverhill, Massachusetts.  The new project is more than double the size of its closest competitor, a 425 kilowatt solar array located on the site of a former brownfield in Brockton. The new installation is another notch on the solar belt for Rivermoor, which also started construction on the largest rooftop solar installation in Boston earlier this year.

Beyond that, the whole idea of reclaiming brownfields to create new green jobs in sustainable energy by reclaiming brownfields has been taking off with a big push from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  It’s a restorative approach that offers a stark contrast with the destruction caused by fossil fuel harvesting, the latest example being British Petroleum’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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