After 18 months of planning and construction, EcoVillage at Ithaca completed a solar panel array in December that will provide a majority of the community’s electrical power.

As part of its proposal to construct a new tech campus in New York City, the University revealed on Wednesday that it plans to enter into an agreement with a third-party solar developer, which will finance, build and own the campus’ solar panels and ground source heat pumps.

The expected 26 percent growth rate is much higher than that of the U.S. economy, which is expected to grow two percent over the same period.

The world's reserve of fossil fuels will eventually be exhausted, and the use of oil from the Middle East will not be able to support the world. According to Prof. Frank DiSalvo, chemistry, sun is perhaps one of the best sources of energy that humans can depend on in the future.

The Hanrath Energy laboratory, also known as the Hanrath Group, combats one of the biggest obstacles that marketable solar energy technology faces: cost. Led by Prof.