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White House goes green with solar panels
Aug 15, 2013 (AFP)
The White House is going green. Solar panels are being installed on parts of the residence, a US official said Thursday -- making good on a pledge that dates ba...
Japan's grids can support solar boom?
Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)
Amid a solar power boom in Japan, there are concerns the country's electrical grids cannot support proposed projects. Last July, the Japanese government introdu...
Empa scientists boost CdTe solar cell efficiency
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Flexible thin film solar cells that can be produced by roll-to-roll manufacturing are a highly promising route to cheap solar electricity. Now scientists from E...
New Program Delivers Solar Power to Low-Income Families
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Low-income residents in Denver, Colo. will soon receive clean, locally-produced energy thanks to a new partnership between solar garden developer Clean Energy C...
Microgrid Solar Helping To Support Growing Presence Of Electric Vehicles
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Microgrid Solar knows that Electric Vehicles (EVs) result in lower carbon emissions and the company therefore recognizes the importance of helping to make Charg...
NREL Report Firms Up Land-Use Requirements of Solar
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on the land use requirements of solar power plants based on actual la...
Schneider Electric Champions Solar Energy in Thailand
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Schneider Electric, a global leader in solutions for the solar power conversion chain, announced it is all set to expand its solar energy business in Thailand. ...
Tecta Completes Solar Installation at Massachusetts Art Museum
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Tecta Solar recently completed the installation of 503 kWp of solar photovoltaics at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). This roof mount system...
Disorder can improve the performance of plastic solar cells
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have spent decades trying to build flexible plastic solar cells efficient enough to compete with conventional cells made of silicon. To boost perform...
JinkoSolar to Supply 39MW PV Modules to AMEC for Three Projects In the US
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
JinkoSolar has announced that it will supply AMEC with 39 MW of high-efficiency photovoltaic ("PV") modules for three solar projects in the United States. Locat...
Distributed Solar Power Generation Will Reach $112 Billion In Annual Revenue By 2018
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Driven by feed-in tariffs (FITs) and the commoditization of photovoltaic (PV) modules, along with innovative leasing programs for residential solar installation...
DuPont and GD Solar Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
DuPont China Holding Co., Ltd. (DuPont) and GD Solar Co., Ltd. (GD Solar) today signed a strategic cooperation agreement focused on collaboration to improve the...
Solar installers praise the introduction of the new off-grid inverter/charger from Schneider Electric
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Schneider Electric Solar Business has released their newest off-grid solar and backup power inverter/charger - the Conext SW. The Conext SW represents a technol...
Independence Solar Completes 126 kW Rooftop Solar Array for Forest Hill
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Independence Solar today announced the completion of a 126 kW rooftop solar array for ACM Technologies, a Forest Hill, MD based developer of environmentally-fri...
KYOCERA Solar Modules Prove Long-Term Reliability in Colorado Mountains
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Kyocera Solar Inc. today announced that its solar modules installed on three individual sites in Colorado's Rocky Mountains have demonstrated long-term reliabil...
Cleaning Solar Panels Often Not Worth the Cost
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Don't hire someone to wash your dirty solar panels. That's the conclusion of a study recently conducted by a team of engineers at the University of California, ...
Large-scale solar funding good news for a renewable future
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Confirmation that the largest solar energy project in the Southern Hemisphere is now underway is great news for the future of renewable energy in Australia, the...
Cobalt Replacements Make Solar Cells More Sustainable
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Basel have successfully replaced the rare element iodine in copper-based dye-sensitized solar cells by the more abundant elemen...
OPEC Nations Seek Cash For Solar Shift
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Two of the largest oil producers are readying the Middle East's first big push into renewable energy, planning solar-power plants that will need more than $1.5 ...
EU-China solar deal effective August 6: official
Aug 02, 2013 (AFP)
The European Commission said on Friday that a much-lauded "amicable solution" over imports of Chinese solar panels, a key step in easing fears of a trade war, w...
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