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October 26, 2012
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ABC SOLAR To Develop FIT Power Generation Plants In Japan; Inks MOU With European Firms
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 25, 2012
ABC Solar Japan K.K. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with two European solar giants to develop utility-scale solar energy plants in Japan, it was announced by company president Tetsuro Nishida in Tokyo Monday. "Japan's energy problems are complex and we are producing reliable, cost -efficient energy solutions," said Nishida when making the announcement . The strategic alignment with2-FIFTY-5 Green Investments Solutions GmbH and Co KG in Germany and Allalouf Investment Group [AFG] in Lon ... read more

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Solar power said viable in snowy regions
While solar cells and snowy climate might not seem a good mix, U.S. and Canadian researchers said solar power is still a good investment even in snowy locales. ... more
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ATK Selected to Develop MegaFlex Solar Array Structure
ATK's MegaFlex solar array was recently selected by NASA's Space Technology Program under a Game Changing Technology competition for development of the promising lightweight and compact solar array ... more
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Centrosolar Scales Up Distribution and Delivery of Solar in the US
With its continuing growth in the U.S. solar market, Centrosolar America has announced the launch of its SAP platform. The system will optimize its operations company-wide, creating a seamless proce ... more
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Seven Worthington Schools to Receive Free Solar Power
Seven Worthington schools will receive free power from the sun thanks to a new partnership between the school district and a local nonprofit organization. Worthington Schools is working with Solar C ... more
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Hanwha Group Launches Hanwha Q.CELLS
Hanwha Group has launched Hanwha Q.CELLS. The launch marks the completion of the acquisition of German solar company Q.CELLS, one of the worlds' largest solar cell manufacturers and a leading photov ... more
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Panasonic and Macerich Form Strategic Renewable Energy Partnership
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America and Macerich, have aligned to begin the first phase of a multi-property retail real estate solar power program. Over the next 12 months, solar installations at ... more
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Solar Project To Support Disaster-Affected Families In Ofunato
Global non-profit housing organization Habitat for Humanity has announced that it will partner with Hilti, provider of leading-edge technology to the global construction industry, and business and f ... more
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Stanford researchers use solar power to study elephants in Africa
A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research c ... more
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3M Introduces 3M Solar Encapsulant Film EVA9000
3M Renewable Energy Division introduces 3M Solar Encapsulant Film EVA9000, a fast cure encapsulant that is designed to work with PV modules to provide protection against UV-aging and weathering whil ... more
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Clean Power Research has introduced SolarAnywhere SystemCheck services that provide consistent, real-time PV performance baselines for cost-effective management of distributed PV fleets. With System ... more
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Sutherland Packaging in Green Township Goes Solar
GeoGenix has announced that it has completed the installation of a 612-kilowatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system for Sutherland Packaging, a family-run packaging company, at its headquarters i ... more
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New Jersey Printing Company Gets Powered by the Sun
Solis Partners has completed a 757 kilowatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installation for Carlstadt, N.J.-based Pictorial Corp., one of the nation's fastest growing graphic communications compani ... more
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MECASOLAR to supply solar trackers
MECASOLAR - a multinational company that designs, manufactures and supplies solar trackers, fixed structures and foundation screws - has reached an agreement to deliver 74 single-axis azimuth solar ... more
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KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules for North Queensland
Kyocera Solar recently supplied 348 kilowatts (kW) of solar modules that now cover the roof of the Townsville RSL Stadium in North Queensland, Australia. The photovoltaic installation, which w ... more
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Solar Frontier Selected by Iberdrola for Utility Project in Mexico
Solar Frontier and Iberdrola Ingenieria and Construccion Mexico S.A. de C.V. has announced that Solar Frontier has completed delivery of 1.5 megawatt peak (MWp) of its CIS thin-film modules to a 5MW ... more
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Interior Greenlights New Era for Solar Development on Public Lands in the Southwest
U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has signed the final "Record of Decision" greenlighting the implementation of the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for solar energy devel ... more
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India Needs Concentrated Solar Power to Achieve Safer, More Reliable Energy Future
In the wake of historic summer blackouts that left more than 700 million Indians without power, a new report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Council on Energy, Envir ... more
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Motech Americas launches UL 1,000 Volt Certified Modules for PV Installations in North America
Motech Americas LLC, the most experienced manufacturer of solar modules with its Newark, Delaware facility in operations for more than 20 years, has announced the launch of new UL 1,000 volt Certifi ... more
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Germany raises electricity charge to finance renewables
Germany's electrical grid operators said Monday they were raising by nearly 50 percent the charge to consumers that finances subsidies for renewable energy as the country phases out nuclear power. ... more
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Researchers Create 'Nanoflowers' for Energy Storage, Solar Cells
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created flower-like structures out of germanium sulfide (GeS) - a semiconductor material - that have extremely thin petals with an enormous surf ... more
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Research findings in solar cells will have an impact on solar panel industry
University of Luxembourg's Laboratory for Photovoltaics has established a method to observe and prevent solar cell degradation before solar cell production is finished, which has implications for th ... more
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Motech Americas launches UL 1,000 Volt Certified Modules for PV Installations in North America
Motech Americas has announced the launch of new UL 1,000 volt Certified Modules for PV installations in North America. The UL 1,000 volt Certified feature has been integrated into MOTECH's newly ann ... more
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China denounces solar tariffs
China has denounced the U.S. decision to raise tariffs on imports of solar panels by Chinese companies. ... more
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US confirms heavy duties on Chinese solar cells
The United States confirmed Wednesday hefty anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Chinese solar cell makers that have added to trade tensions between the two economic powers. ... more
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China calls on US to rescind solar-cell duties
Beijing on Thursday urged the United States to rescind hefty anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on China's solar-cell makers amid an intensifying row in the sector dominated by Chinese companies. ... more
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Australia turns on large-scale solar plant
Australia's biggest solar farm was officially connected this week. ... more
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Solar cells made from black silicon
Solar cells convert three-quarters of the energy contained in the Sun's spectrum into electricity - yet the infrared spectrum is entirely lost in standard solar cells. In contrast, black silicon sol ... more
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PSEG Queen Creek Solar Farm in Arizona Begins Commercial Operation
PSEG Solar Source has announced the commercial operation of the 25.2 megawatt DC (19 megawatt AC) Queen Creek Solar Farm in Queen Creek, Arizona. Salt River Project (SRP) has a 20-year agreement to ... more
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European Interregional Collaboration on Thin-Film PV
Imec and its partners in the Solliance initiative announce that they have launched, together with the Institute of Materials Research of the University of Hasselt (IMO), the Solar Flare Interreg Pro ... more
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LADWP Board Approves New Solar Power Agreements
With its approval of two long-term solar power purchasing agreements, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's (LADWP) Board of Water and Power Commissioners moved decisively to meet Los Ange ... more
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Researchers Reveal How Solvent Mixtures Affect Organic Solar Cell Structure
Controlling "mixing" between acceptor and donor layers, or solar cell domains, in polymer-based solar cells could increase their efficiency, according to a team of researchers that included physicis ... more
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