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Smith College, a girls' college in Northampton, Massachusetts, recently began relying on solar power to power its student center.

The solar array will generate enough power over the next two decades to offset 238 metric tons of carbon emissions - the equivalent, says Smith, of planting 215 acres of trees. The school adds that the panels will produce all the electricity required by the cafe inside the campus center...

The Commonwealth Solar incentive program was supposed to last four years when it was announced in 2007 - but roaring demand for subsidized solar panels in the Bay State has depleted it completely.

The program, administrated by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, had budgeted $68 million to incentivize installations on homes, businesses, and government buildings. Last month, though, the MTC alerted installers to its low level of remaining funds...

Smith College, a girls' college in Northampton, Massachusetts, recently began relying on solar power to power its student center.

The solar array will generate enough power over the next two decades to offset 238 metric tons of carbon emissions - the equivalent, says Smith, of planting 215 acres of trees. The school adds that the panels will produce all the electricity required by the cafe inside the campus center...

On July 16, 2008, Evergreen Solar opened its Fort Devens, Massachusetts 450,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. It was the first phase in a plan to ramp up toward greater solar panel production, with a second phase scheduled for completion in March of 2009.

The company won $44 million in state incentives (and another reported $32 million in grants, land, loans, tax incentives, and other aid) to build its manufacturing plant. In February of 2008, before the plant was announced, it had scaled back its IPO from 20 million shares to 16. A little more than a year later, on the announcement of more than $1 billion in new contracts with Germany's IBC Solar AG, those shares shot up 33 percent...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has provided $35 million to Indian Nation for solar energy and efficiency projects, with $29 million more to come.

The funds will be used for energy audits, efficiency education, and renewable energy construction on municipal buildings. They will also be applied to programs that incentivize home efficiency improvements...