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October 21, 2010
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Building The World's Thinnest Crystalline Silicon Solar Panel
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2010
DuPont Kabushiki Kaisha and Fujipream Corporation have successfully developed a new thin crystalline silicon (c-Si) glass-glass photovoltaic module that is 25 percent lighter in weight (excluding the frame) compared with traditional c-Si modules using standard solar grade front glass. The new Fujipream module incorporates new innovative material technology from DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions and NSG Group to provide the strength, rigidity, resistance to impact and weatherability required to meet in ... read more

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SPACE WORLD 2010: Successful Premiere at the Exhibition Centre Frankfurt/Main
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DuPont Introduces New Kapton Films For Flexible And Thin Film PV Apps
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Carmanah And Trojan Battery Enter Into Strategic Partnership
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GM To Install Solar-Powered EV Charging Stations
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.
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OPEL Solar Launches New Mk-IX High Concentration PV Solar Panel Technology
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German grid aching under solar power
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Sharp To Supply Thin Film Solar Panels For Canadian PV Project
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Solar Industry Urge Californians To Vote No On Prop 23
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Largest Smart Solar Array In North America
Sun Light and Power has announced it has begun constructing North America's largest smart-solar array which will be located in the San Francisco/Bay Area. The 530 kilowatt (kW) array leverages ... more
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GE Announces Expanded Portfolio Of Highly Differentiated Solar Solutions
GE has announced several additions to its growing portfolio of technologically advanced solar products and services. New solar system, inverter and panel products will enhance GE's ability to provid ... more
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SolarBridge Technologies Exhibiting At Solar Power International
SolarBridge Technologies has announced the launch of the SolarBridge AC Module System, a complete microinverter solution that enables the industry's first integrated AC modules with a full 25-year w ... more
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SunPower Forms PVDock Special Interest Group With Power Conversion Manufacturers
SunPower has announced that it has formed a special interest group (SIG) with distributed power control systems (DPCS) manufacturers SolarBridge Technologies and Tigo Energy, to set protocols within ... more
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Structure Of Plastic Solar Cells Impedes Their Efficiency
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the U.K. has found that the low rate of energy conversion in all-polymer solar-cell technology is caused by the structure of the solar ... more
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Kyocera Modules Power Largest Solar Electric System In Orange County
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 13, 2010
Kyocera Solar has announced that 5,472 of its KD210 high-efficiency polycrystalline solar panels were recently installed atop existing shade structures on three parking deck roofs of an Irvine, California-based financial institution campus. The 1.15-megawatt installation is the largest to date in Orange County, Calif. The photovoltaic system will provide nearly 50% of the energy used to ... more

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Transformative Solar Array To Be Developed On Reclaimed Ohio Strip Mine
Columbus OH (SPX) Oct 13, 2010
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has announced agreements to create Turning Point Solar, a 49.9 MW solar array to be built on strip-mined land adjacent to The Wilds nature conservancy. At signing ceremonies in Governor Strickland's cabinet room, American Electric Power (AEP) CEO Michael G. Morris signed a memorandum of understanding with project developers New Harvest Ventures and Agile Energy ... more

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Spire Produces World's Most Efficient Solar Cell
Bedford MA (SPX) Oct 13, 2010
Spire Semiconductor has produced a world record efficiency concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell. The 0.97cm2 cell was measured by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to have a peak efficiency of 42.3% at 406 suns AM1.5D, 25C (42.2% at 500 suns). Edward D. Gagnon, General Manager of Spire Semiconductor, LLC, stated, "In early 2009, Spire Semicon ... more

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SunEdison Sells Europe's Largest Solar Power Plant To First Reserve

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Taiwan Cement plans large solar power plant


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Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot On An Exoplanet

New techniqe aiding planet searches

Planet Hunters No Longer Blinded By The Light

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The Satellites Have Eye Contact

Preliminary Design for New Long-Range Surveillance Radar Completed

Apple, Blackberry spar over smartphone sales, tablets

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Japan GPS Bird Checks Out Okay

NKorea Jamming Device A New Security Threat

KORE Telematics Introduces Location-Based Service Offering

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International Crews for Shenzhou

China Eyes Extended Mission Beyond Moon

China's second lunar probe enters moon's orbit: state media

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Ocean asteroid impact could deplete ozone

NASA Cameras Spot Meteors From Obscure Camelopardalis Shower

No Evidence Found Of Catastrophic Impact In Pleistocene

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When Is A Comet Not A Comet

Comet Hartley 2 Visible In Morning Sky This Week

Hartley 2 Visible In Night Sky

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Azuray Technologies And Suntech Collaborate To Develop Advanced Smart Panel Technology
Durham OR (SPX) Oct 11, 2010
Azuray Technologies has announced it is collaborating with Suntech Power Holdings to explore 'smart panel' solutions aimed at bringing greater solar energy generation to new solar installations. The new 'smart panel' technology will draw on Azuray's exceptional maximum power point tracking (MPPT) DC to DC technology, which yields up to 25 percent greater solar energy harvest from panels affected by shading, mismatch or other real world conditions. "This cooperation with Azuray Technologies b ... read more

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Supporting The Advancement Of DoD's Net Zero Energy Initiative

Sunoco To Supply NASCAR With Ethanol-Blended Race Fuel

Rentech's Synthetic RenDiesel Fuels Audi A3 TDI

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Computational Swimming Fish Aids Robot And Prosthetic Design

Robot punches humans -- for science

Japan tech fair offers glimpse of future lifestyles

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Wind power to grow massively until 2030

China's wind power capacity to increase five-fold by 2020

Google in major bid for Eastern US wind power

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China carmakers' plans raise overcapacity concerns

Daimler aims for huge sales boost in China

German scientists see golden future for 'self-driving' cars

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Iraq signs deals to open up gas fields

China sends patrol boats to isles disputed with Japan: media

Mysterious death of top Gazprom manager

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