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 Oakland, Calif. (UPI) Sep 11, 2009 
BrightSource Energy, developer of large-scale solar plants, has contracted with engineering giant Bechtel to build a 440-megawatt solar power station in California's Mojave Desert. According to California-based BrightSource, the Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System, when fully operational, will nearly double the amount of solar thermal electricity now produced in the United States. ... read more
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops. The researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. ... more
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Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance. The findings were published online in Nature Materials on Sunday 13 September. The investigations ... more 
Ordos City, China (UPI) Sep 10, 2009 The world's largest solar plant is planned for the Mongolian desert of China. Arizona-based First Solar Inc. and Ordos City in China signed an agreement Tuesday to build what will be a 2-gigawatt solar installation. The Ordos City project will generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 3 million Chinese homes, with a field of panels stretching for 25 square miles. ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 9, 2009 Europe's solar energy industry is facing a wave of bankruptcies because Asian companies offer their products much cheaper. Several German producers of solar cells, panels and modules, including large market-leading companies, have reported massive first-half losses. Q-Cells, one of the world's largest makers of solar cells, said it would cut 500 jobs, nearly a fifth of its ... more |
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Victoria, Canada (SPX) Sep 04, 2009Carmanah Technologies has signed an agreement with frog design to introduce the next benchmark in solar-LED area lighting. Established in 1969, frog design is a global innovation firm that has pioneered some of the world's most groundbreaking designs for trendsetting companies such as Apple, Disney, HP, Louis Vuitton, Logitech, Microsoft, and Sony. "Exploring the possibilities for the next ... more 
Portland OR (SPX) Sept 01, 2009Tanner Creek Energy has announced the completion of a 33.6 kW grid-tied solar system at Pacific Landscape Management. Pacific Landscape Management, one of the leading landscape contractors in the northwest, reports that the solar system generates 95% of its electricity usage. The Hillsboro, OR company contracted with Tanner Creek in its efforts to lessen its environmental impact via energy ... more 
Sarasota FL (SPX) Sept 01, 2009Sunovia Energy Technologies and its partner, EPIR Technologies, have announced the expansion of their research and development and pilot production facilities in Bolinbrook, IL. The facility expansion allows the partners to begin optimization of their high-efficiency, low-cost cadmium telluride on Silicon (CdTe/Si) concentrated photovoltaic devices. Once optimized, pilot-scale production will ... more |
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