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SCHOTT Solar Breaks Ground On Manufacturing Facility In Albuquerque
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 04, 2008
Executives from SCHOTT AG of Mainz, Germany, Governor Bill Richardson and local dignitaries ceremonially broke ground for the company's new manufacturing facility for SCHOTT Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCHOTT. The site, located in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, NM, will produce both photovoltaic modules and receivers for concentrated solar thermal power ... read more

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    Power-Save Energy Company Announces Launch Of New Renewable Energy Product Line
    San Luis Obispo CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008
    Power-Save Energy has announced the successful launch of its new Renewable Energy product line, The Power-Save Solar and Power-Save Wind Turbine. Power-Save is focused on becoming the premier retailer of renewable energy and energy savings products in the United States. The company not only provides both quality-tested and certified products direct to the consumer, but also provides them at ... more

    IR's 600V Trench IGBTs Reduce Power Dissipation Up to 30 Percent In Solar Inverter Applications
    El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008
    International Rectifier has introduced a family of 600V insulated gate bipolar transistors that reduces power dissipation by up to 30 percent in uninterruptible power supply and solar inverter applications up to 3 kW. The new application-specific devices use IR's latest-generation field stop trench technology to reduce conduction and switching losses, and are optimized for ... more

    Ocean Tomo Auctioning Patent For Revolutionary Solar Power Technology
    Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2008
    Ocean Tomo Auctions has announced the sale of a patent and pending applications directed to high volume semiconductor production platform technology for very low cost solar cell, LED, and other valuable commercial applications. Lot 30A, comprised of U.S. Patent No. 5,725,659; U.S. Application Serial Nos. 08/322,292, 11/559,893, and 11/740,286; and PCT/US2007/82310, will be offered at the Ocean ... more

    Germany's Renewable Energies Industry Provides Advantages To International Investors
    Washington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2008
    With oil prices exceeding US$100 a barrel, the United States, and the world, is being forced to recognize that fossil fuels may not only be damaging the environment, but also losing their competitive edge regarding price. Germany is pioneering solutions to this problem. It has demonstrated that renewable energies can play an important role in a sustainable industrial policy - providing job ... more

    Oil giant Saudi to become solar power centre: minister
    Paris (AFP) March 2, 2008
    Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, plans to become an expert in another, cleaner field of energy by investing in solar power, the country's oil minister said in an interview released Sunday. "For a country like Saudi Arabia ... one of the most important sources of energy to look at and to develop is solar energy," Ali al-Nuaimi told French oil newsletter Petrostrategies. He ... more

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  • Trinity Solar Reaches Milestone With Installation Of 500th Solar Electric System

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  • Ferreira Construction And New Jersey Solar Solutions Announce The Formation Of Vanguard Energy Partners
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    Capturing Sunlight
    Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 03, 2008
    Solar cell technology is marching ahead, though it still struggles with the two problems: efficiency and high production costs. In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University of Tokyo, Michael Grätzel and his research group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have now developed new sensitizers that should help an inexpensive type of solar cell to be more efficient. ... more

    Bridge Of The Gods Columbia River Resort Casino Will Rest Lightly On The Earth
    Portland OR (SPX) Mar 03, 2008
    From carbon neutral construction to LEED certification and environmental stewardship, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are taking unprecedented strides to ensure that their proposed Bridge of the Gods Columbia River Resort Casino is constructed and operated using best-in-class environmental practices. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs' 1992 Declaration of Sovereignty defines ... more

    Xcel Energy Launches Groundbreaking Wind-to-Battery Project
    Minneapolis MN (SPX) Feb 29, 2008
    Xcel Energy soon will begin testing a cutting-edge technology to store wind energy in batteries. It will be the first use of the technology in the United States for direct wind energy storage. Integrating variable wind and solar power production with the needs of the power grid is an ongoing issue for the utility industry. Xcel Energy will begin testing a one-megawatt battery-storage ... more

    Solar Energy Market Will Soar To 12 Billion Dollars By 2012
    New York NY (SPX) Feb 29, 2008
    After three years of continuous upswing in solar power revenues, topping $3.8 billion in 2007, will its future be just as bright? A new report from SBI, The U.S. Solar Energy Market, indicates that several factors favorable to the industry will propel the market to triple digit growth, to reach nearly $12 billion by 2012. Although growth may prove to have some bumps along the road, factors ... more

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    BP Solar Forges Partnership With Frederick County Schools
    Frederick MD (SPX) Feb 29, 2008
    BP Solar and Frederick County Public Schools penned a partnership agreement to deepen their relationship to support education in the Frederick community. The partnership provides the two organizations with common objectives - to provide educational materials on alterative energy; to allow students to experience hands-on investigations using real-world activities ... more

    Sharp Reaches Two GW Of Cumulative Solar Cell Production Volume
    Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2008
    At the end of 2007, Sharp became the first company to reach 2 GW in cumulative solar cell production volume in the world. Sharp has been involved with solar power for 49 years: the company began research into solar cells in 1959 to develop a new technology to follow the success of the television and started mass-production in 1963. It is estimated that the current world's cumulative solar ... more

    Ohio Pioneers Development Of Green Collar Workers For Advanced Energy Jobs
    Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 28, 2008
    Ohio is pioneering the development of "green collar" workers, a growing number of skilled professionals who use their talents to improve the emerging advanced energy industry. A recent report released by the American Solar Energy Society, funded by the Ohio Department of Development, predicted that 174,000 Ohioans could have jobs related to advanced, renewable energy by 2030. According to ... more

    Honeywell And City Of Hillsboro Power Water Storage Facility With Solar Panels
    Minneapolis MN (SPX) Feb 28, 2008
    Honeywell has announced that the City of Hillsboro, Ore., has awarded the company a solar project that is expected to cut the city's energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Under the agreement, Honeywell will install ground-mounted solar panels next to the Hillsboro Evergreen Reservoir water storage facility and sell the electricity the panels produce to the city for use at the reservoir. ... more

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