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Solar Permitting Guidebook Offers Local Governments Strategies
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
A new guidebook outlining ways for California cities and counties to make permit processing and inspections for home rooftop solar electric systems quicker and ...
Year-End rush in China pushes Asia-Pacific PV market record levels
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
Quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) demand in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to reach the 10 gigawatt (GW) level for the first time, in the fourth qua...
NREL compares varied State based solar policies
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have used statistical analyses and detailed case studies to better understand wh...
Stacking Two-Dimensional Materials May Lower Cost of Semiconductor Devices
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has found that stacking materials that are only one atom thick can create semiconductor junctions t...
Huawei Makes Largest 12-Month Gains in the Global PV Inverter Market
Dec 12, 2014 (SPX)
According to the latest "PV Inverter Market Tracker" report from the Power and Energy service of IHS Technology, SMA, ABB, and Omron lead global photovoltaic (P...
First Solar enters residential market
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
First Solar and Clean Energy Collective (CEC) have announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to develop and market community solar offerings to re...
Researchers Demonstrate New Way To Plug 'Leaky' Light Cavities
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a new and more efficient way to trap light, using a phenomenon called bound states in the...
'Smart windows' have potential to keep heat out and save energy
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
Windows allow brilliant natural light to stream into homes and buildings. Along with light comes heat that, in warm weather, we often counter with energy-consum...
GE and Pacifico Energy to build 2nd solar JV in Japan
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
GE unit GE Energy Financial Services is continuing its expansion into the Japanese renewable energy power market, completing its second solar project financing ...
New Technique Could Harvest More of the Sun's Energy
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
As solar panels become less expensive and capable of generating more power, solar energy is becoming a more commercially viable alternative source of electricit...
UNSW converts sunlight to electricity at 40 percent efficiency
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
UNSW Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The re...
New technique offers spray-on solar power
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That's Illan Kramer's (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a ...
Light propagation in solar cells made visible
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
How can light which has been captured in a solar cell be examined in experiments? Julich scientists have succeeded in looking directly at light propagation with...
Australian scientists announce solar energy breakthrough
Dec 07, 2014 (AFP)
Australian scientists said Monday they had made a breakthrough in increasing the efficiency of solar panels, which they hope could eventually lead to cheaper so...
First Public EV charging station in Australia powered by a solar car park structure
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
Australia's first public Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station powered by a solar car park structure, the first EV charging station on the Pacific Highway, and...
U.S. puts more cash behind solar power
Dec 03, 2014 (UPI)
Solar energy developers can tap into the more than $9 million in funding available through the federal SunShot initiative, the Energy Department said. The fundi...
Hanwha SolarOne to Build 230 MW Module Factory in South Korea
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Hanwha SolarOne, a top-10 global photovoltaic manufacturer of high-quality, cost-competitive solar modules, will build a new solar photovoltaic (PV) module fact...
Spectrolab manufactures 4 millionth space solar cell
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab is the first company to produce 4 million gallium arsenide based solar cells for use in space. The cells have powered more than 380...
AORA to provide Solar-Biogas Hybrid off-grid in Africa
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
AORA Solar has met with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (www.mowr.gov.et), to plan the construction ...
Solarmax Is Latest Victim of Decline of European Solar Inverter Market
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Solarmax was the fifth largest photovoltaic (PV) inverter supplier in the world in 2008, with a market share of over 4 percent. Its market share has declined ea...
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