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New “Smart” Solar Modules Unveiled by Upsolar
Upsolar yesterday unveiled that it has created new “smart modules” with the help of Tigo Energy. Reportedly, these are the first smart modules to be certified by TÜV Rheinland PTL for Europe and North...
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New High-Tech Solar Company for Saudi Arabia
A new high-tech company for the solar energy sector is going to be created in Saudi Arabia, courtesy Saint-Gobain (in particular, Jean-Pierre Floris, Senior Vice-President and President of the...
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Over 100 MW Of Utility-Scale Solar For Indonesia
100 MW of utility-scale solar power plants are reportedly headed to Indonesia courtesy First Solar, a leading solar product company based out of the US, and PT. Pembangkitan Jawa Bali Services (PJB...
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New Solar Power Plant Completed In Modesto
The Modesto Irrigation District in California is now home to the 25-megawatt McHenry Solar Plant designed and constructed by SunPower and currently providing power for approximately 6,000 homes. The...
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10 New SunShot Winners Announced
A total of fifty-four startups have participated in the SunShot Incubator program since it began back in 2007, and 10 new startups have joined the seventh incubator program launched this month....
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US Solar Power Growth Strong
I just published this article yesterday on CleanTechnica. All in all, it looks like Chinese solar PV duties haven’t had too much effect on the growth of solar power in the US. The 3rd quarter was a...
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Solar & Wind Energy Overview
Here are parts 1 and 2 of a presentation I recently gave to a class of renewable energy graduate students (reposted from CleanTechnica): Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 1 (Including 34 Charts &...
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Ultra-Thin Solar Cells From New Class Of Materials
Single atomic layers are combined to create novel materials with completely new properties. Layered oxide heterostructures are a new class of materials, which has attracted a great deal of attention...
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Panasonic Claims Solar Cell Efficiency Record Of 24.7%
Records are meant to be broken — at least, that’s what many people say. It’s certainly the case in the fast-developing solar energy industry. Tons of research teams around the world are working on...
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Shell Bullish On Solar Despite Dropping Solar (But Much More In Its New...
The solar manufacturing industry is now a highly competitive industry. Solar module companies that can’t compete are dropping like icicles on a warm spring day. Shell dropped out of the solar module...
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Alta Devices Lands 30.8% Solar Cell Efficiency Record
No, this is not a record for all types of solar cells. As you can see in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) chart below, multi-junction solar cells take top spot in when it comes to solar...
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$1 Million In Annual Electricity Savings For KB Home & SunPower Solar Customers
KB Home and SunPower just celebrated their 1,000th solar home customer. In combination with that, they are also celebrating an estimated $1 million or so a year in annual electricity savings amongst...
View ArticleSolar To Be #2 Source Of New Power In 2013
In an on-air Google Hangout today, Recurrent Energy CEO and Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) Chairman Arno Harris noted that more solar power capacity is projected to be installed in 2013 than...
View ArticleEuropean Photovoltaic Industry Association Sets 2013 Priorities
Solar industry leaders gathered in Brussels this week for the Annual General Meeting of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA). The goal: identify challenges to solar PV growth and...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Sector Launches Action Alliance
From the new Action Alliance for Communication in the Renewable Energy Sector: On 8 March, around 100 representatives of the renewable energy sector, from Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the...
View ArticleSolar3D Says It Will Create Manufacturing Prototype This Year
Solar3D has been pretty aggressive on the PR front for a few years now. It has made a lot of announcements about efficiency breakthroughs, proof of concept, patent applications, etc. Well, it has...
View ArticleFirst Solar — #1 Solar Developer, #2 Solar Module Manufacturer
US-based First Solar seems to have done a pretty good job naming itself. It is the #1 solar developer in the world (based on March 2013 data), the #1 solar EPC contractor in the world (same data...
View ArticleSunPower Tops Solar Module Yield Test (Ranks #1, #2, And #3)
US-based solar module company SunPower has apparently taken the first, second, and third spot in PHOTON International’s 2012 solar module yield test. PV-Tech writes: The company’s SPR-327NE-WHT-D...
View ArticleInnotech Solar Set To Increase Module Production Capacity To 100 MW
Business has been good for a Scandinavian-Germana solar module manufacturer, Innotech Solar (ITS). It’s been so good that the company is planning to do something almost no other solar module...
View ArticleSunPower Launches Commercial Solar Panels With World Record Efficiency —...
SunPower is the well known leader in solar module efficiency. It has raised the bar yet again with the release of some super efficient “ X-Series Solar Panels.” As I reported less than one month ago,...
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