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University of Utah Makes Solar Accessible
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
The University of Utah is the first university in the country to sponsor a community solar program. The program offers U community members the opportunity to pu...
Locus Energy Named Preferred Supplier for Amicus Solar Cooperative
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Locus Energy, a solar monitoring and analytics company, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Amicus Solar Cooperative to be its preferred vendor o...
Franklin's New Solar Pumping Technology Proves Itself in Africa
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Though the Kampani School and Clinic in the Zimbabwe's remote Tsholotsho District aren't far from the world famous Victoria Falls, it had been twenty years sinc...
KYOCERA Invests in Solar Projects with US Light Energy
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Kyocera has announced plans to invest in a tax equity partnership for the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects valued at $38 million in New York stat...
IPVEA To Study Global Solar PV Supply Chain
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
The International Photovoltaic Equipment Association (IPVEA), a global trade organization supporting solar and energy storage professionals, has announced a new...
KYOCERA Provides Solar Modules and Materials to Avnet Tech Games 2014 Solar Scrimmage
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Recognizing that students represent the next generation of great thinkers and innovators, Kyocera has announced that it supported the 2014 Avnet Tech Games by p...
The UK solar strategy lays ground for a stable future
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
The recently published second part of the UK Solar Strategy breeds optimism among participants in the UK PV market. However, the document remains vague on exact...
US to Dodge Solar Shortage This Year Even Amid New Antidumping Fines on Chinese Module Suppliers
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
A long-running battle in the global photovoltaic (PV) market between the United States and China over antidumping and subsidy charges could expand into higher s...
Like a hall of mirrors, nanostructures trap photons inside ultrathin solar cells
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
In the quest to make sun power more competitive, researchers are designing ultrathin solar cells that cut material costs. At the same time they're keeping these...
Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
Treating cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but researchers have not fully understood why. Now, an a...
NREL Unlocking Secrets of New Solar Material
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than...
Research Underway For Companion Plants To PV
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
Growing agave and other carefully chosen plants amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms not only to collect sunlight for electricity but also to produc...
US urged to drop India WTO case on solar
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
Environmentalists Wednesday urged the United States to drop plans to haul India to the WTO to open its solar market, saying the action would hurt the fight agai...
Nanoparticles Create Skinny Solar Cells
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Martina Schmid at Helmholtz Zentrum Ber...
Pakistan plans huge desert solar park to fight energy crisis
Apr 20, 2014 (AFP)
For years Pakistanis have sweated and cursed through summer power cuts, but now the government plans to harness the sun's ferocious heat to help tackle the coun...
Obama launches measures to support solar energy in US
Apr 17, 2014 (AFP)
The White House Thursday announced a series of measures aimed at increasing solar energy production in the United States, particularly by encouraging the instal...
Let the Sun Shine In: Redirecting Sunlight to Urban Alleyways
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
In dense, urban centers around the world, many people live and work in dim and narrow streets surrounded by tall buildings that block sunlight. And as the globa...
Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collabo...
Better solar cells, better LED light and vast optical possibilities
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
Changes at the atom level in nanowires offer vast possibilities for improvement of solar cells and LED light. NTNU-researchers have discovered that by tuning a ...
Scientists open door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard-drives
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
Using DESY's bright research light sources, scientists have opened a new door to better solar cells, novel superconductors and smaller hard-drives. The research...
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