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March 16, 2011
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Solar Power Systems Could Lighten The Load For British Soldiers
London, UK (SPX) Mar 16, 2011
A revolutionary type of personal power pack now in development could help our troops when they are engaged on the battlefield. With the aim of being up to fifty per cent lighter than conventional chemical battery packs used by British infantry, the solar and thermoelectric-powered system could make an important contribution to future military operations. The project is being developed by the University of Glasgow with Loughborough, Strathclyde, Leeds, Reading and Brunel Universities, with funding ... read more

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Power-One Launches Three-Phase String Inverter For North American Market
Power-One has announced it has received CSA-UL1741 approval for its AURORA three-phase string inverter for the United States and Canadian market places. Power-One's AURORA Trio, 10 and 12kW st ... more
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Prudent Energy has been awarded a grant from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in cooperation with SunPower Corp, Pacific Gas and Electric, KEMA, and Sandia National Laboratories of ... more
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JinkoSolar Joins PV CYCLE To Promote Cleaner Energy
JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it has joined PV CYCLE's European association for voluntary take-back and recycling of photovoltaic modules. By doing so, JinkoSolar joins more than 70 companie ... more
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XsunX Signs CIGSolar Purchase And License Commitment With Energy Company
XsunX has announced the company has entered into an agreement with Globe Future Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Globe Future) for the purchase of manufacturing systems and an operating license for ... more
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REC Solar Modules Ranked As Top Performer
REC solar modules generated more electricity than 30 other leading modules, producing 6 percent more power on average.REC was ranked best in test for five out of twelve months. "The Photon tes ... more
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Solis Partners Completes Solar Installation For New Jersey
Solis Partners and Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE and G), New Jersey's oldest and largest publicly owned utility, recently celebrated the completion of a 921-kilowatt rooftop solar ins ... more
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KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules For US Marines' Largest PV Installation
Kyocera Solar and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest have announced the completion of a 1.4 megawatt (MW) solar electric system on the United States Marine Corps Base Camp P ... more
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Spire To Provide MAGE SOLAR With 50MW PV Module Assembly Line
Spire has announced it will provide the Ravensburg (Germany) company, MAGE SOLAR (MAGE) with a PV module assembly line to be established in Dublin, Georgia. This automated line will assemble laminat ... more
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Ford And DTE Energy Soak Up Rays With One Of Michigan's Largest Solar Projects
The primary part of one of Michigan's largest solar power generation systems at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant is now up and running, delivering renewable energy to help power the production of fuel ... more
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Renewables could bring job boon to Poland: Greenpeace
An ambitious switch from fossil fuels to green energy could generate up to 350,000 new jobs by 2020 in the Poland, the European Union's most coal-dependent member, Greenpeace said Friday in Warsaw. ... more
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SunSi Completes Acquisition Of Chinese TCS Facility
SunSi Energies has announced that it had completed the acquisition of a 60% equity interest in He Xie Silicon Co. ("Wendeng"), a trichlorosilane ("TCS") facility located in Weihai City, China. ... more
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Harrisonburg Passes Tax Exemption As Incentive For Solar Power
Harrisonburg City Council last night passed an ordinance offering a 100% exemption from local taxes for solar power installations, helping the city to join 13 other localities in Virginia that offer ... more
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SDG and E Signs Renewable Power Contract With Tenaska Project
San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG and E) and a subsidiary of CSOLAR Development have announced a 25-year contract for up to 150 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to be generated at the Imperial Solar Ene ... more
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JA Solar Announces Investment Agreement With City Of Hefei
JA Solar Holdings has announced that it has signed a strategic investment agreement with the city of Hefei, in China's Anhui province, to set up a new state-of-the-art photovoltaic ("PV") production ... more
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Solar Rainbow To Install 1MW System On Omni Holdings Complex
Solar Bawabeh, president and co-founder of Solar Rainbow Services has announced that they will be installing a 1 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic system over a total of 120,000 square feet for Omni ... more
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SunPower Signs 48MW Solar Power Supply Agreement With Toshiba
SunPower has announced that, under a strategic supply agreement, Toshiba will order 48 megawatts of high-efficiency solar panels from SunPower during the 2011 Japanese fiscal year ending March 31, 2 ... more
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Hayward And REC Solar Unveil 1MW Solar System
The City of Hayward adopted a Climate Action Plan in July 2009 as a roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the City Council has implemented green building standards, environmenta ... more
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Ultrafast Laser 'Scribing' Technique Cuts Cost And Improves Efficiency Of Solar Cells
Researchers are developing a technology that aims to help make solar cells more affordable and efficient by using a new manufacturing method that employs an ultrafast pulsing laser. The innova ... more
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Intersolar Europe 2011 On Course For Continued Success
From June 8-10, 2011, Intersolar Europe will once again take center stage in the international solar industry at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. The world's largest exhibition for the solar indust ... more
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BlueChip Energy Signs Agreement To Acquire Land For 40MW Solar Farm
BlueChip Energy (BCE) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire land in Central Florida for the development of a 40 megawatt (MW) capacity solar farm. The largest photovoltaic ( ... more
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JA Solar And MEMC Announce Solar Cell Production Joint Venture
JA Solar Holdings and MEMC Electronic Materials have announced a joint venture agreement between JA Solar and MEMC's affiliate, MEMC Singapore, to build and operate a solar cell production facility ... more
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PSE and G's Central Headquarters Solar System Complete
Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE and G) today marked the completion of a rooftop solar installation at the utility's Central Division Headquarters in Somerset, NJ. The 0.9-megawatt syste ... more
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LADWP And SolarWorld Partner To Develop Solar Power System
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has joined forces with SolarWorld to develop an 11.6-megawatt (MW) DC solar system that will generate enough clean, renewable solar energy to po ... more
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Expert says Czech solar power boom to slow
The Czech Republic's solar power boom is set to slow this year after scoring Europe's third-fastest increase in installed output in 2010, an expert said Monday, blaming new taxes and rules. ... more
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FPL Unveils World's First Hybrid Solar Energy Center
Florida Power and Light Company, along with Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, local public officials, construction workers, engineers, environmental experts and bus ... more
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SunWize Partners With SunRun For Simpler Home Solar Power
SunWize Systems has announced it has partnered with SunRun, the nation's leading home solar service company. This partnership allows SunWize to offer California homeowners more affordable solar powe ... more
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Clear Skies Passes Milestone
Clear Skies Solar has announced that it has received another round of project funding fueling the pipeline of work. "We have received additional LOI's from our investors representing funding f ... more
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Custom Packaging Completes Solar PV Installation
Custom Packaging has completed a 100 kW solar photovoltaic system on the roof of its Lebanon, Tenn. facility. The system is the largest in the region, according to Middle Tennessee EMC. Inman ... more
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Strategic Partnership For Triple-Digit Megawatt Sales
BELECTRIC Trading has signed a three-year contract with Solar Frontier to sell and install Solar Frontier's proprietary CIS modules at a volume in the three-digit megawatt range, which will be produ ... more
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EverGEN Solar Powered Lights Selected For Popular City Bike Path
Carmanah Technologies is pleased to announce that the City of Los Angeles has selected Carmanah EverGEN 1710 solar powered lights to light a popular bicycle path. The EverGEN 1710 was selected becau ... more
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Enecsys Announces The Cost-Saving, Solar PV Duo
Enecsys Limited has announced the Enecsys Duo micro-inverter. This 360-Watt addition to the Enecsys micro-inverter family is the world's highest power density micro-inverter with dimensions of 262 x ... more
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