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| October 15, 2013 |
 Researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to develop an economical means of harnessing artificial photosynthesis by narrowing the voltage gap between the two crucial processes of oxidation and reduction, according to their latest research, published this week in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The team reports it has come within two-tenths of the ph ... more |  |
UMD Robotic Bird Harvests Solar Energy College Park MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Small robotic birds are showing lots of promise for tasks such as monitoring the environment and conducting surveillance. But one current drawback they have is the amount of time they are able to stay aloft. Because of the birds' light weight and small size, the tiny batteries used to power them deplete in just a few minutes. University of Maryland Professors S.K. Gupta and Hugh Bruck and ... more |  |
World First for Stand-Alone, Solar-Powered Lighting Column Oss, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kaal Masten is presenting the Spirit: the world's first solar-powered lighting column that does not use mains power and is available in a complete series (up to 18 metres). As a result, we now have a complete range of stand-alone lighting columns that can provide top quality lighting anywhere in the world. The Spirit is a modular lighting column that exclusively uses solar energy and LED t ... more |  |
ET Solar Provides Solar Panels for Two Utility Projects in Chile San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - ET Solar Group has announced that it has provided 4.8MW of solar PV panels for two utility scaled projects in Chile. Located in Combarbala, the IV Region, the projects, namely PSF Pama and PSF Lomas Coloradas, are being constructed by Coener SpA. The owner of the projects is an investment Chilean company called Andacollo de Inversiones. Both projects are of utility scale and will be ... more |  |
Kyocera Solar Helps Power Midway Airport Rental Car Facility Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kyocera Solar has announced that 25 kilowatts (kW) of Kyocera photovoltaic modules now help power Chicago's Midway Airport's new environmentally friendly consolidated rental car facility. Installed by Green Power Solutions, the PV system is on the roof of the Quick-Turn Around (QTA) facility, where hundreds of rental cars are washed and refueled daily. As planes taxi and land, passengers e ... more |  |
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NREL Releases New Roadmap to Reducing Solar PV "Soft Costs" by 2020 Golden CO (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a new report, "Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013-2020," funded by DOE's SunShot Initiative and written by NREL and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). The report builds off NREL's ongoing soft-cost benchmarking analysis and charts a path ... more |  |
Trina Solar supplies 5MW to ESPE for ground-mounted project in Romania London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Trina Solar has announced that it has recently supplied 5MW to ESPE, a leading Italian company that designs and installs reliable green energy systems, for a ground-mounted project in Romania. The large-scale solar installation is part of a 20MW project led by ESPE. This first phase consists of two installations of 2.5MW each, and will provide an expected annual output of 6.6GWh and a savi ... more |  |
SolarBOS announces official release of Circuit Breaker Solutions Livermore CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - SolarBOS is pleased to officially announce a new line of Circuit Breaker Recombiners and Enclosures. The new Circuit Breaker product line serves as an additional disconnecting option for customers to meet the 2011 NEC 690.16(b) fuse servicing requirement. SolarBOS Circuit Breaker Solutions are equipped with 600V and 1000V DC UL489(b) circuit breakers and are designed for commercial a ... more |  |
Minimum price on solar to protect South Australian consumers Canberra, Australai (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - A recommendation to set a minimum price for the solar energy generated by South Australians was good news overall for households and small businesses, the Clean Energy Council said Friday. Clean Energy Council Policy Director Russell Marsh said the draft price determination released by the Essential Services Commission of South Australia (ESCoSA) would go some way towards protecting consum ... more |  |
KYOCERA Solar Gives Small Business an Edge with Energy Savings Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Kyocera Solar has announced that 117kW of Kyocera photovoltaic (PV) modules are installed on the roof at Pizza Port's new Carlsbad, CA restaurant, corporate office, and beer production, canning and distribution facility. The latest Pizza Port location, part of a family-owned San Diego chain of five restaurants and breweries, expects to reduce energy costs by as much as $30,000 annually, re ... more |  |
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KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules for "Kizuna" Solar Park Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Kyocera has announced that it has supplied 3.6 megawatts (MW) of multicrystalline silicon solar modules for the Okumatsushima "Kizuna" Solar Park in Higashi-Matsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Construction of the utility-scale solar power plant owned and operated by Mitsui and Co., Ltd. was recently completed and the plant went online in August. The city of Higashi-Matsushima ... more |  |
University of Calgary solar teams on the world stage Calgary, Canada (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Two high-profile international student competitions are now underway, with the University of Calgary being represented at both: the Solar Decathlon competition in Irvine, Calif., and the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Both teams are comprised of students from multiple faculties who have worked on projects that demonstrate the practicality of using renewable energy. "University of Calg ... more |  |
Rocketdyne Tests High Concentrated PV System Sacramento CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Aerojet Rocketdyne is successfully demonstrating a commercial-scale High Concentrated Photovoltaic (HCPV) pilot system designed to generate more solar energy at less cost, in a smaller amount of space, than traditional flat-panel PV technology. The 600-square-foot unit is rated at 17.5 kilowatts DC, enough electricity to power seven homes. It began operating in August 2013 and has already ... more |  |
Major leap towards graphene for solar cells Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Graphene has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This makes it a perfect candidate material for transparent contact layers for use in solar cells to conduct electricity without reducing the amount of incoming light - at least in theory. Whether or not this holds true in a real world setting is questionable as there is no such thing as "i ... more |  |
Dutch team win Australian solar car race Adelaide, Australia (AFP) Oct 10, 2013 - Dutch team Nuon on Thursday crossed the finish line in an epic 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across the Australian outback ahead of Japan's Tokai University, avenging their 2011 defeat. The World Solar Challenge, first run in 1987 and last held in 2011, set off on Sunday from Darwin in northern Australia with the Dutch team's car Nuna 7 taking 33.05 hours to make the punishing ... more |  |
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Solar power's future brawl Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - A trio of researchers at North Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota have turned to computer modeling to help decide which of two competing materials should get its day in the sun as the nanoscale energy-harvesting technology of future solar panels - quantum dots or nanowires. Andrei Kryjevski and his colleagues, Dimitri Kilin and Svetlana Kilina, report in AIP Publis ... more |  |
DEK Solar Helps Break New Barriers for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells Dorset, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2013 - Building on earlier work conducted in conjunction with the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), DEK Solar has further optimized its Dual Print stencils and screens to push past previous industry cost and cell efficiency benchmarks. In the company's latest project with ISFH, a record 20.2% cell efficiency on a PERC solar cell has been achieved via a Dual Print process with a ... more |  |
Global Solar Installation Growth Set to Hit Three-Year High in 2014 London, UK (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - Global photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to rise at the fastest pace in three years in 2014, exceeding 40 gigawatts (GW) for this first time and generating installation revenue of more than $86 billion, according to IHS. Annual solar installations are predicted to expand at a rate of 18 percent in 2014, reaching 41 GW and firmly marking the end of the solar industry's two-year s ... more |  |
Solid UK performance signals strong future for Trina Solar Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - Trina Solar has announced that it will be attending the 2013 Solar Energy UK event at Birmingham's NEC, 8th-10th October. At the show, the company will reassure installers and end-users alike of its continuing commitment to the UK market alongside its durability in the face of recent announcements concerning anti-dumping duties and price undertakings, said Richard Rushin, Trina Solar's UK ... more |  |
Another 1MW of Community-Owned Solar Comes Online in Colorado Breckenridge CO (SPX) Oct 03, 2013 - Perched at 9,200 feet in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, two community-shared solar arrays began producing clean, local power this week for residents and businesses of the historic ski town of Breckenridge, Colo. and surrounding Summit County. Developed in tandem by Clean Energy Collective (CEC), the Breckenridge Sol Array and the Breckenridge Ullr Solar Array are the first and only comm ... more |  |
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