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May 11, 2011
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Carmanah Awarded Contract to Outfit Ontario Elementary Schools
Victoria, Canada (SPX) May 11, 2011
Carmanah Technologies has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1.8 million (CAD) to provide solar grid-tied PV systems for two elementary schools in Southern Ontario. Architects and planners for both schools considered the integration of a solar PV system early in the building's design process. This, in combination with the School District's continued support of sustainable energy and available funding through the Renewable Energy Funding for schools program, contributed to the Distric ... read more

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New Solar Charging Stations from Duo-Gard
Rising interest in electric vehicles and solar power has sparked a Michigan manufacturer's development of solar-powered charging stations for cars, bikes, scooters, carts and motorcycles. Duo-Gard I ... more
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Solar Trust of America Expands into Photovoltaic Market
Solar Trust of America has announced it signed a letter of intent with SolarHybrid AG to form a joint venture upon finalization of negotiations to be called SolarHybrid of America, LLC. The new comp ... more
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ManTech Awarded Contract to Support Development of Solar Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected ManTech International for a prime contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical support assistance (SETA) services for the department's S ... more
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Centrosolar Debuts Ontario Made S-Series
Centrosolar Canada has announced the release of the S-Series photovoltaic modules, now available to local solar dealers and installers. Engineered in Germany and manufactured in Ontario, Centrosolar ... more
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Companies Form Strategic Alliance to Capitalize on Growing Indian Solar Market
United Solar, the leading global manufacturer of flexible, thin-film solar laminates and a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) has announced an order for 500 kilowatts ( ... more
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Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics
New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices. Ring-like molecules with unusu ... more
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'Swiss cheese' design enables thin film silicon solar cells with potential for higher efficiencies
A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon - and may boost their efficiency - is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in ... more
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Renewables key for climate, world energy supply: IPCC
Renewable energy could meet nearly 80 percent of the world's energy needs by mid-century and play a crucial role in fighting global warming, the UN's climate scientists said Monday in a major report. ... more
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Measurement of hot electrons could have solar energy payoff
Basic scientific curiosity paid off in unexpected ways when Rice University researchers investigating the fundamental physics of nanomaterials discovered a new technology that could dramatically imp ... more
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New Surge Protectors for PV Systems
Automation Systems Interconnect Inc is pleased to announce the release of their new line of overvoltage and lightning protection modules. For both the AC and DC side of a solar PV network, ASI ... more
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MAG Providing Solar Automation Systems for XsunX
MAG IAS has been selected to provide back-end processing systems, installation services and 24/7 global service and support for the patented CIGSolar cell manufacturing lines being developed by Xsun ... more
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Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation Installs Solar Panels
The Hertz Corporation's solar energy program continues to expand with the installation of solar electric systems at various Hertz locations. The most recent installation was completed at a Her ... more
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Southwest Solar Announces New Collaboration at Research Park
Southwest Solar Technologies has announced an agreement with Burns and McDonnell Engineering to research and test new solar technology at the Southwest Solar Research Park in Phoenix, Arizona. South ... more
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Renewables major part of 2050 world energy mix: UN
Renewable power from the Sun, wind, water and biomass can and should generate a major portion of the planet's energy supply by 2050, according to a draft United Nations report obtained by AFP. ... more
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Natcore Technology Successfully Uses LPD Process on Textured Solar Cells
Scientists of Natcore Technology have shown that Natcore's liquid phase deposition (LPD) process can be used to apply an antireflective (AR) coating to textured solar cells as well as standard plana ... more
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American Vision Brings New 'Light' to Solar Energy
Environmentally-aware homeowners looking to live a bit 'greener' - while significantly saving some 'green' ($) on monthly utility bills - can turn to the experts in solar panel installation, America ... more
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UNI-SOLAR Brand Photovoltaics to Power Railway Station in China
United Solar has announced through its joint venture in United Solar Ovonic Jinneng Limited, a project to supply 565kW UNI-SOLAR brand photovoltaic (PV) solar laminates for the solar power system on ... more
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NJR Clean Energy Ventures Announces Solar Project
NJR Clean Energy Ventures (NJRCEV) has announced an agreement with the Village at Manalapan Solar to lease 13 acres of land in Manalapan, New Jersey, for a state-of-the-art, ground-mounted solar sys ... more
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Constellation Energy To Acquire 30 MW Solar Installation in Sacramento
Constellation Energy has announced that it acquired a 30-megawatt DC (25-megawatt AC) solar generation project in Sacramento, Calif., from utility-grade photovoltaic power plant developer Belectric, ... more
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Solar power, with a side of hot running water
MIT researchers and their collaborators have come up with an unusual, high performance and possibly less expensive way of turning the sun's heat into electricity. Their system, described in a ... more
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SunBorne and Suntech Partner for 100MW of Solar Projects in India
SunBorne Energy and Suntech Power Holdings have entered into a framework agreement for the supply of 100MW of solar panels over the next two years for projects in India. Suntech will supply 28 ... more
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Rice University parlays sun's saving grace into autoclave
Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries. Th ... more
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Stevinson Ranch Golf Club Breaks Ground on Two Solar Systems with Cenergy Power
Stevinson Ranch Golf Club and Cenergy Power have begun construction on two solar photovoltaic (PV) systems: a 113 kilowatt (kW) ground mount and an 82 kW carport solar systems. The solar PV systems ... more
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Trina Solar Announces and ANU will Enhance High-Efficiency Solar Cells
Trina Solar Limited (TSL) has announced through its subsidiary, Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co. Ltd., the signing of a three year research agreement with the Australian National University ("ANU"). ... more
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SunReports Enters Canadian Solar Market with Latitude51 Partnership
SunReports has entered into a distribution partnership with Latitude51 Solar, a provider of water heaters to the Canadian market. Specializing in high power evacuated tube collectors perfectly suite ... more
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Hydrogen Fuel Tech Gets Boost from Low-Cost, Efficient Catalyst
Scientists have engineered a cheap, abundant alternative to the expensive platinum catalyst and coupled it with a light-absorbing electrode to make hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water. The d ... more
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Granite Commissions Solar-Powered Construction Materials Facilities
Granite Construction Company has announced that one of its asphalt concrete and aggregate facilities in Indio, California, is among the first in the nation to use solar energy to generate as much as ... more
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Solar-thermal flat-panels that generate electric power
High-performance nanotech materials arrayed on a flat panel platform demonstrated seven to eight times higher efficiency than previous solar thermoelectric generators, opening up solar-thermal elect ... more
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Amonix Unveils High-Performance Concentrated PV Installation
Amonix has unveiled a utility-scale solar energy 2-megawatt (MW) AC Nameplate power plant in the Solar Zone at the University of Arizona's Science and Technology Park (UASTP) that will produce enoug ... more
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Abound Solar Partners with Thesan to Reduce PV Installation Costs
Abound Solar has announced a partnership and distributorship with Thesan, a designer and manufacturer of solutions for the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. The companies will work ... more
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KYOCERA Supplies 6MW of Solar Modules for Italian Solar Plant
Kyocera has announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company's multicrystalline silicon solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant near Turin, Italy. The lar ... more
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