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DOE selects for Solar Energy International for military base training
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is piloting an intensive solar workforce training program-Reach for the Sun-to provide transitioning military personnel the ...
Gardner Capital Develops Six Solar Projects in North Carolina
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
Gardner Capital provided tax equity financing for six solar utility-scale photovoltaic power generation systems totaling 37.5 MW located on rural property throu...
Energy boss overtakes IT mogul as China's richest: survey
Feb 03, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese solar energy tycoon has replaced e-commerce giant Alibaba's founder Jack Ma as the country's richest man with a fortune of $26 billion, a wealth surve...
Pinholes are pitfalls for high performance solar cells
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
The most popular next-generation solar cells under development may have a problem - the top layer is full of tiny pinholes, researchers at the Okinawa Institute...
Natcore Makes Back-Contact Solar Cell Using Laser Processing
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
Three months ago, Natcore Technology has announced that its scientists had created an all-low-temperature, laser-processed solar cell. Now Natcore's scientists ...
BioSolar Plans To Lower The Cost Of Solar With Energy Storage Technology
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
BioSolar, Inc believes that the company's polymer-based supercapacitor technology currently under development could help reduce the cost of solar energy storage...
Los Alamos develops new technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
This week in the journal Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers reveal a new solution-based hot-casting technique that allows growth of highly effi...
Apple to open $2 bn solar-powered Arizona data center
Feb 02, 2015 (AFP)
Apple unveiled plans Monday to pump $2 billion over the coming decade into a data center "global command" facility in the southwest state of Arizona. The projec...
New light-converting materials over cheap, efficient solar power
Jan 30, 2015 (SPX)
University of Toronto engineers study first single crystal perovskites for new applications Engineers have shone new light on an emerging family of solar-absorb...
U.S. beer maker boasts of solar power capacity
Jan 30, 2015 (UPI)
Beer maker MillerCoors said it installed a solar array at its California brewery, which the company said is the largest of its kind for any U.S. brewer. Working...
Research pinpoints new technique for producing cheaper solar energy
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Pioneering new research could pave the way for solar energy to be converted into household electricity more cheaply than ever before. A team of experts from the...
New technique helps probe performance of organic solar cell materials
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by North Carolina State University has developed a new technique for determining the role that a material's structure has on the efficiency ...
Demystifying nanocrystal solar cells
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists are focusing on nanometre-sized crystals for the next generation of solar cells. These nanocrystals have excellent optical properties. Compared with ...
NREL examines trade-offs of owning versus leasing a solar PV systems
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Two new reports from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examine the economic options customers face when deciding how to financ...
Calculating the future of solar-fuel refineries
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a new tool to help plot the future of solar fuels. In a paper recently published in the journa...
Canadian Solar Completes the Sale of Glenarm Solar Power Plant to Dutch Infrastructure Fund
Jan 27, 2015 (SPX)
Canadian Solar has announced the sale of the 10 MW AC Glenarm solar power plant ("Glenarm") to an affiliate of DIF Infrastructure III ("DIF"). This solar power ...
Prologis Completes 4.2 Megawatt Solar Project with Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Jan 27, 2015 (SPX)
Prologis has announced the completion of four new solar projects in Los Angeles. Some 1.1 million square feet of Prologis rooftop space will feed a combined 4.2...
Sun Time Energy is Now Providing No Money Out of Pocket Commercial Solar Energy to Apartment Building Owners
Jan 27, 2015 (SPX)
Sun-Time Energy is one of the leading clean energy companies in the nation. Not only does Sun-Time manage commercial solar energy power system designs and insta...
Duke Energy to build 13-megawatt solar facility at Camp Lejeune
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
A partnership between Duke Energy, the Department of the Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps will lead to a 13-megawatt (AC) solar facility being built at the Marine...
SunEdison Applauds Governor Cuomo's Support For Solar In New York
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
SunEdison applauds New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2015 Opportunity Agenda, and in particular his continued support for the development of a homegrown solar in...
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