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Trojan Batteries Power City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Trojan Battery has provided deep-cycle AGM batteries to support a solar-powered village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called the City of Joy. The City...

BIJ, finergia and meeco sign MoU on Japanese market

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

The meeco Group has made a significant step forward in its penetration of the Japanese solar market by agreeing on Terms for a new joint venture (JV) with BIJ C...

Bosch Solar Energy Completes 1.9 Megawatt Project in Maui County

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Bosch Solar Energy, a division of the Bosch Group, has completed the largest solar photovoltaic project in Maui County, Hawaii. The project will provide power f...

New Energy and NREL to Advance SolarWindow Towards Commercialization

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

New Energy Technologies, Inc. has announced that the Company has entered into Phase 2 of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S...

JinkoSolar Delivers First Distributed Rooftop PV System to Eaton Electric

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

JinkoSolar Holding has announced that its first 100 kWp distributed rooftop photovoltaic ("PV") power generation system for Eaton Electric Co., Ltd. ("Eaton"), ...

Energy Storage Tops the List of Requirements for PV Inverter Buyers

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

A new survey conducted by IMS Research - now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) - of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly ...

Panasonic and Pristine Sun To Build 50MW of California Solar Farms

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

Panasonic Eco Solutions Energy Management North America and Pristine Sun have aligned to begin the first phase of a portfolio build-out of solar PV farms in Cal...

Toronto breakthrough promises much more efficient solar cells

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

A new technique developed by University of Toronto Engineering Professor Ted Sargent and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cel...

Trina Solar bullish on UK solar prospects

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

Trina Solar has stated its belief that the UK solar PV industry is set to boom in 2013, predicting that installed capacity will double over the next 12 months, ...

MIT researchers develop solar-to-fuel roadmap for crystalline silicon

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

Bringing the concept of an "artificial leaf" closer to reality, a team of researchers at MIT has published a detailed analysis of all the factors that could lim...

Tindo Solar Partners With Solarbridge Technologies

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

Tindo Solar has announced a partnership with SolarBridge Technologies to include their microinverters in the Tindo Karra-250 AC Module. The manufacturing of the...

Saudis rev up plans for renewable energy

Mar 06, 2013 (UPI)

Saudi Arabia has unveiled ambitious plans to develop renewable energy programs that will produce 54,000 megawatts of electricity by 2032, part of a strategy by ...

MECASOLAR delivers 3,400 MECASCREW foundation screws to 3MW PV solar plant in Lorca

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

MECASOLAR has supplied as many as 3,400 MECASCREW foundation screws to a solar PV farm being developed by Martifer Solar in Lorca, Murcia, in Spain. The R and D...

Alta Achieves 30.8 percent Efficiency Record with New Generation Solar Cell Technology

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Alta Devices has disclosed that it has reached 30.8% solar cell efficiency. This new NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) verified record has resulted fr...

Dominion to Build Solar Power Project in Georgia

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Dominion has acquired a solar energy development project in Georgia from Smart Energy Capital and Jacoby Development. The project is to begin commercial operati...

Walmart expands solar installations to Ohio

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Walmart has announced that it has worked with SolarCity to install solar panels on 12 Walmart Stores and Sam's Clubs throughout Ohio. The solar panel installati...

First Power and Light Signs Major Solar Contract As Mainstream Moves To Acquire Them

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Mainstream Entertainment stands to benefit from First Power's announced 67.5 Kilo-Watt commercial solar installation contract. Valued at $275,000, it is the fir...

China to boost renewable energy in 2013

Mar 05, 2013 (AFP)

China will sharply boost renewable energy this year, it said Tuesday, after repeated bouts of heavy pollution across much of the country heightened public anger...

EU begins tracking imports of Chinese solar products

Mar 05, 2013 (AFP)

All EU imports of Chinese solar panels and components will now be recorded, the European Commission said Tuesday, as part of an anti-dumping probe that has spar...

Silicon Energy Photovoltaics Perform Well In Severe Environmental Testing

Mar 05, 2013 (SPX)

Silicon Energy's double-glass Cascade Series Photovoltaic (PV) Module outperformed standard PV modules for durability under extreme environmental conditions, in...