SOLAR - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese solar panel giant Suntech Power announced Monday that it was in default on its debt after failing to make a payment on $541 million worth of bonds. One ...

Sun Number Reduces Cost of Customer Acquisition, Shortens Sales Cycle for Solar Installers

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

Sun Number, LLC is making it easier, faster and less expensive for solar companies to analyze the solar potential of properties and to close sales with customer...

India's solar mission drives manufacturing

Mar 18, 2013 (UPI)

India's solar market is expected to reach $2.05 billion in 2015, nearly double the $1.05 billion market of 2012, market research firm Frost and Sullivan says. F...

HEMOS Technology Presents World First Remote Controlled Solar Panel

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

Leto Solar Corporation is presenting the exclusive world premiere of HEMOS Technology at this year's Solar Power Finance and Investment Summit in San Diego, Cal...

UAE opens world's largest CSP solar power plant

Mar 17, 2013 (AFP)

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi on Sunday officially opened the world's largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, which cost $600 million to build and will provide elect...

UK Welcomes First Solar Glass Petrol Station Canopy

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

A supermarket petrol canopy in Southampton is to be built using groundbreaking solar glass, for the first time ever in the UK. The glass is fully photovoltaic, ...

Dublin School breaks ground on MAGE SOLAR PV-System

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

MAGE SOLAR, a turn-key provider of optimally coordinated PV-system solutions announced that the company will provide a 1.1 MW solar PV system to Dublin City Hig...

Obama defends green energy push after budget cuts

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama defended green energy research spending Friday, two weeks after budget cuts kicked in, warning that those reductions would leave Ameri...

Bringing Solar Power To Multi-Family Housing in Chicago

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Kyocera Solar has announced that it is supplying Kyocera solar modules and MyGen Pro installation systems to VGI Energy for affordable, multi-family housing uni...

Government Mulling Club Of Nations To Promote Exchange Of Solar Technology

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

India is looking forward to establishing a club of nations blessed with sufficient sunlight and harness energy to promote solar power as a substitute to the con...

Advanced Energy Selected For Historic Federal Building Solar Installation

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Advanced Energy Industries has announced that its AE 75TX solar inverters have been selected by First Power and Light for a 147 kW solar energy system at the Ma...

U.S. sets record in solar installations

Mar 15, 2013 (UPI)

The United States experienced record growth in solar installations, an industry report says. A total of 3,313 megawatts of capacity was added in the United Stat...

Solis Partners Completes Solar Installation at NJ Distribution Center

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Solis Partners recently completed a 1.82 MW rooftop solar electric system at Freeze's manufacturing and distribution facility in Dayton, NJ. Solis Partners desi...

South Africa Signs MoU For Local Nuclear Fuel Development

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Ltd (Necsa)...

Stanford researchers map out an alternative energy future for New York

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will soon decide whether to approve hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the state. To date, no alternative to expanded gas drilli...

Eltek Solar Inverter Now CEC/ERP Qualified

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Eltek, the world leader in high efficiency power systems for telecommunications, industrial applications and renewable energy projects, today announced that its...

The carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand del...

5MW Kalaeloa Solar Farm Now Generating Power on Oahu

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has joined representatives of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and Hawaiian Electric Company in a dedication ceremo...

Solarsis Helps Beat Power Outages for Schools

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

With the increase in power tariff, unpredictable power outages and responding to the global warming, Prema Samajam an NGO has solarized their Orphanage Schools ...

Russia plans giant solar power station to orbit Earth

Mar 12, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Russia is thinking of building a giant solar power station capable of collecting energy and beaming it to Earth. This idea was put forward by Central Scientific...