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January 24, 2011
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World's largest solar park planned in Greece: PM
Athens (AFP) Jan 21, 2011
Debt-hit Greece plans to build the world's largest solar park over depleted coal mines in the northern city of Kozani, Prime Minister George Papandreou said this week. Estimated to cost 600 million euros ($807 million) and with a capacity of 200 megawatts (MW), the project's electricity output will be "greater than any other photovoltaic park operational in the world until now," Papandreou told a development event in Kozani on Thursday. The state-run Public Power Corporation (PPC) said it would ... read more

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Petra Solar Launches Research Center In Middle East
Petra Solar has announced its continued international expansion with the launch of a research and development center in Amman, Jordan. This new office will enable Petra Solar to provide regional tec ... more
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Southwest Solar Technologies Opens 18 Acre Research Park In Arizona
Southwest Solar Technologies has announced that it has completed initial development of the Southwest Solar Research Park in Phoenix, Arizona. The 18-acre, state-of-the-art, secured facility is loca ... more
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Largest Single-Roof Top Solar System In North America
Glimcher Realty Trust has announced plans for the largest single-roof top solar system in North America to be built on the roof of Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The 4.8MW solar array will ... more
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ReneSola Improves Cell Efficiency With New 'Virtus Wafer'
ReneSola has announced that it has developed a new multicrystalline wafer, the Virtus Wafer, which improves solar cell efficiency. The Virtus Wafer, which has been endorsed by several leading ... more
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SolarWorld Lauds US Embrace Of Domestic Production Of Solar Tech
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Envision Solar Installs Solar Parking Project At Ecotech Institute
Envision Solar International has announced the design and installation of its Solar Tree parking structures at the new Ecotech Institute, the first and only college entirely focused on renewable ene ... more
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Lucintel Benchmarks Wind With Solar Energy
Wind and solar are clean renewable energy sources available across the globe. The business of generating electricity from wind and solar energy is growing and is poised for rapid expansion as the US ... more
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Solar Activated Air Conditioning System
Hitachi Plant Technologies has recently developed an environmentally-friendly Solar Activated Air Conditioning System employing its own developed solar energy collector. The system reduces consumpti ... more
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SunPower And SCE Sign Contracts For 711MW Of Solar Power
SunPower has announced that it has signed three power purchase agreements with Southern California Edison (SCE) for delivery of a total of 711 megawatts (MW) of solar power. SunPower will install it ... more
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Sharp To Power Solar Arrays For Cincinnati Parks Department
The Cincinnati Parks department is currently installing a series of solar power arrays that will make the department the owner of the largest number of solar arrays in the state of Ohio. The project ... more
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SoloPower Announces New Solar Panel Manufacturing Facility In Oregon
SoloPower, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of flexible, thin film solar cells and modules, announces it will locate a high volume manufacturing facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. The initial pha ... more
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Centrosolar Introduces Its USA Made Solar Panel
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Electricity Pricing Policies May Make Or Break Plug-In Hybrid Buys
California policies aimed at reducing electricity use and curbing greenhouse gas emissions have the unintended consequence of making new plug-in hybrid vehicles uneconomical, according to a Purdue U ... more
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German solar sector fears subsidy cap
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Debunking Solar Energy Efficiency Measurements
In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology - and promoting efficiency metrics to make the technology marketable. Now a Tel A ... more
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China National BlueStar to buy Norway's Elkem for $2.0 bn
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Chinese silicon group aims to buy Norway's Elkem
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla said Monday it was in talks to sell its metals company Elkem to a Chinese silicon company, reportedly for up to two billion euros ($2.6 billion), a sign of easing tensions between the two countries since the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. ... more
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Kalahari Greentech Addresses Major Office Energy Use
Kalahari Greentech has announced that the Solar Tri-Brid System is ideal for use on commercial buildings. The energy expenditures in office buildings account for 23% of energy expenditures in ... more
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UNI-SOLAR Brand Photovoltaics Set Sail
United Solar has announced that their UNI-SOLAR(R) brand photovoltaics have been installed on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas cruise ship. Royal Caribbean International launched the Allur ... more
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New Dyes Improve Solar Technologies
Chemists at the University at Buffalo have synthesized a new class of photosensitizing dyes that greatly increase the efficiency of light-driven systems that produce two kinds of green energy: Solar ... more
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New Solar Cell Self-Repairs Like Natural Plant Systems
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Solis Partners Participates In Distributed Solar Summit 2010
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