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May 18, 2011
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Emerson To Provide Power Technology For One Of The Largest Solar Energy Projects In US
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 18, 2011
Emerson has been awarded a contract to supply power technology for one of the largest solar energy projects in the United States. Under an agreement with Wind Turbine and Energy Cables (WTEC) Emerson will provide utility-scale power inverters for a 30-megawatt solar power plant in Webberville, Texas. Emerson's power inverters convert DC power from solar arrays into AC power, which is placed directly on the electric grid and is used by homes and businesses. "Emerson's innovative inverter technolog ... read more

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Lowe's Selects Sungevity For Residential Solar Partnership
Lowe's and Sungevity have announced a new agreement that will offer homeowners the easiest and most affordable solar solutions in the marketplace, marking a significant step in the mainstream adopti ... more
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Power Partners Solar's Collectors Generate Hot Water
Power Partners Solar has announced that solar water heating collectors it manufactured have been installed at the John C. Campbell Folk School's first Energy Star Green Building - a new guest house ... more
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OPEL Solar Named 'Exclusive' Supplier by Grape Solar
OPEL Solar International has announced that Grape Solar has selected OPEL Solar as its exclusive, worldwide supplier of solar trackers for its solar projects. This is OPEL's first exclusive supply a ... more
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Exposing ZnO nanorods to visible light removes microbes
The practical use of visible light and zinc oxide nanorods for destroying bacterial water contamination has been successfully demonstrated by researchers at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). ... more
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New Barometer published: photovoltaic barometer
For the first time, Europe's photovoltaic sector installed more new capacity than any other renewable electricity source over the year. EurObserv'ER estimates that 13023.2 MWp of photovoltaic module ... more
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New solar product captures up to 95 percent of light energy
Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures mo ... more
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Solar thermal hydrogen fuel production cost targets in sight
A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that a novel University of Colorado Boulder method of producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight is the only approach among eight comp ... more
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Solar cells more efficient than photosynthesis - for now
In a head-to-head battle of harvesting the sun's energy, solar cells beat plants, according to a new paper in Science. But scientists think they can even up the playing field, says researcher David ... more
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In Less than 100 Days Discount Barry Trashes Reputation and Commercial Law
The NSW Premier has decided that commercial contracts in NSW are not worth the paper they are written on and has moved to retrospectively legislate to change existing Solar/Wind gross feed in tariff ... more
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Photosynthesis or photovoltaics: Weighing the impact
Which is more efficient at harvesting the sun's energy, plants or solar cells? This salient question and an answer are the subject of an article published in the May issue of the journal Science. ... more
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House GOP looking at alternative energy
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New technique improves artificial photosynthesis
This discovery will make it possible to improve photoelectrochemical cells. In the same way that plants use photosynthesis to transform sunlight into energy, these cells use sunlight to drive chemic ... more
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Pairing Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics
In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have assembled nanoscale pairings of particles that s ... more
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Clear Skies Sign 162KW Contract
Clear Skies Solar has announced it has signed a contract with a New Jersey car dealership and the approved funding will be using our Power Purchase Agreement program, or PPA. The PPA allows a ... more
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SunPower to Build Solar Power Systems for Rancho California Water District
Rancho California Water District (RCWD) and SunPower have announced that SunPower will design and construct solar power systems totaling 1.7 megawatts at two RCWD facilities. The systems are expecte ... 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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Clean Energy Pathways Develops Unique Roof Mount for Solar Energy Retrofit
Clean Energy Pathways has completed a large solar retrofit and energy efficiency project at the IMAX Fitness Center in Columbus, Georgia, utilizing a unique mounting process. The retrofit consisted ... more
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Wilmington Friends School to use new campus solar power system
Wilmington Friends School has announced that it will install more than 700 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the rooftops of two campus buildings this summer, resulting in one of the largest of sola ... 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
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Carmanah Awarded Contract to Outfit Ontario Elementary Schools
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 plan ... 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
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Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics
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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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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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