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Saudi Arabia Offers One of World's Lowest Solar Energy Costs
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Solar power costs have fallen dramatically over the last five years, thanks to lower module prices, lower balance of system costs, and increased competition at ...
Yingli To Supply 30 MW of Solar Modules in Japan
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Spain has signed a 31.6 MW supply agreement with Gestamp Solar, a leadin...
Hanwha Increases Production Capacity To 1.5 GW
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
Hanwha Q CELLS has completed the construction of an additional 204 MW production line for high performance solar cells in its Malaysian manufacturing facility. ...
US and China Continue to Dominate in Commercial PV Installations
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
The world's 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of s...
DuPont Adds Two New Solamet PV Metallization Pastes
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont) has added two new products to its leading lineup of frontside silver metallization pastes for crystalline silicon solar c...
New Material Allows for Ultra-Thin Solar Cells
Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)
Extremely thin, semi-transparent, flexible solar cells could soon become reality. At the Vienna University of Technology, Thomas Mueller, Marco Furchi and Andre...
How living things capture energy from the sun
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Since Alexandre Edmond Becquerel first discovered the photovoltaic effect in 1839, humankind has sought to further understand and harness the power of sunlight ...
'Active' surfaces control what's on them
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move across them. The work ...
Asia Development Bank to help drive low-carbon investments
Aug 04, 2014 (UPI)
The Asian Development Bank said Monday it was taking a commercial investment perspective toward developing a low-carbon Asian economy. ADB announced it formed A...
KYOCERA Solar Modules Tapped by Sierra Nevada to Power New Brewery in Mills River
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Nearly everyone enjoys a good beer now and again. A delicious beer sustainably brewed with renewable energy that pours down from the sun might make that happy h...
Flyer Hopes To Make Solar Flying Popular
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Solar-powered aircraft could offer a low-cost way to train future pilots, if the partners developing the Sun Flyer succeed in their ambitious plans. A technolog...
SPCG and KYOCERA Complete 35 Utility-Scale Solar Farms in Thailand
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
SPCG Public and Kyocera have announced the full operational launch of one of Southeast Asia's largest solar power projects. Since 2010, 35 "solar farms" totalin...
Quantum Dots Boost Conversion Efficiency Of GaAs Solar Cells
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists from Taiwan has shown that adding CdS or CdSe quantum dots (QDs) to GaAs solar cells could increase their efficiency by nearly 25 percent. ...
Yingli Expands South American Footprit
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
Yingli Green Energy has expanded its footprint in the Americas by opening the Company's third Latin American office in Santiago, Chile. To facilitate the openin...
Suniva Announces Second US Facility
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
Suniva, an Atlanta based manufacturer of crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, has announced that it is opening a second U.S. manufacturing facility, to ...
MIT Discusses Solar Powered Steam Generating Material
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
MIT is reporting that a new material structure developed at the institute is capable of generating steam by soaking up the sun. The structure, a layer of graphi...
Juwi Sells Vermont Plant To PSEG Solar Source
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
PSEG Solar Source has announced that it will acquire the ERWR Whitcomb Farm Solar project from juwi solar (JSI). The facility, which will now be known as the PS...
SPN Partners With Komeri For 12MW Solar System Atop 14 Facilities
Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)
Solar Power Network Japan and Komeri have announced a partnership to develop 12 MW of rooftop solar power across 14 buildings owned by Komeri. SPN will design, ...
SOLAR shines light on the solar PV industry
Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)
A new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) has launched to help installers, distributors and manufacturers of solar photovoltaic (PV) solutions to clearly stand out ...
Rapid Growth in Solar Boosts Opportunities For Copper
Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)
With the growth rate of the solar energy market expected to increase by double-digits over the next decade, so too will the demand for copper which is needed to...
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