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March 15, 2013
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UK Welcomes First Solar Glass Petrol Station Canopy
Southampton, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2013
A supermarket petrol canopy in Southampton is to be built using groundbreaking solar glass, for the first time ever in the UK. The glass is fully photovoltaic, and produces energy from the sun, but unlike traditional solar panels, it is translucent, making it much more aesthetically pleasing as well as allowing light through. The canopy is due to be built this summer using Polysolar glazing and will generate more than 400MWh of electricity over the 25-year lifetime of the project and take just fiv ... read more

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South Africa Signs MoU For Local Nuclear Fuel Development
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Ltd (Necsa) to investigate and cooperate in the d ... more
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Bringing Solar Power To Multi-Family Housing in Chicago
Kyocera Solar has announced that it is supplying Kyocera solar modules and MyGen Pro installation systems to VGI Energy for affordable, multi-family housing units in urban Chicago. VGI's retrofitted ... more
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Dublin School breaks ground on MAGE SOLAR PV-System
MAGE SOLAR, a turn-key provider of optimally coordinated PV-system solutions announced that the company will provide a 1.1 MW solar PV system to Dublin City High School. The 4898 module system ... more
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Solis Partners Completes Solar Installation at NJ Distribution Center
Solis Partners recently completed a 1.82 MW rooftop solar electric system at Freeze's manufacturing and distribution facility in Dayton, NJ. Solis Partners designed, engineered and constructed ... more


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Government Mulling Club Of Nations To Promote Exchange Of Solar Technology
India is looking forward to establishing a club of nations blessed with sufficient sunlight and harness energy to promote solar power as a substitute to the conventional form of energy, Union minist ... more
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Advanced Energy Selected For Historic Federal Building Solar Installation
Advanced Energy Industries has announced that its AE 75TX solar inverters have been selected by First Power and Light for a 147 kW solar energy system at the Mary Switzer Building, which when comple ... more
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Stanford researchers map out an alternative energy future for New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will soon decide whether to approve hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the state. To date, no alternative to expanded gas drilling has been proposed. But a new ... more
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Eltek Solar Inverter Now CEC/ERP Qualified
Eltek, the world leader in high efficiency power systems for telecommunications, industrial applications and renewable energy projects, today announced that its award-winning THEIA HE-t grid tie sol ... more
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The carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies
take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. ... more
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5MW Kalaeloa Solar Farm Now Generating Power on Oahu
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has joined representatives of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and Hawaiian Electric Company in a dedication ceremony for a new five-megawatt Kalaeloa So ... more
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Solarsis Helps Beat Power Outages for Schools
With the increase in power tariff, unpredictable power outages and responding to the global warming, Prema Samajam an NGO has solarized their Orphanage Schools and old age homes through Solar Power. ... more
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Russia plans giant solar power station to orbit Earth
Russia is thinking of building a giant solar power station capable of collecting energy and beaming it to Earth. This idea was put forward by Central Scientific Research institute for Engineering, a ... more
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Trojan Batteries Power "City of Joy" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Trojan Battery has provided deep-cycle AGM batteries to support a solar-powered village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called the City of Joy. The City of Joy, located in city of Bukavu in ... more
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Energy Storage Tops the List of Requirements for PV Inverter Buyers
A new survey conducted by IMS Research - now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) - of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly growing need for energy storage in PV ... more
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New Energy and NREL to Advance SolarWindow Towards Commercialization
New Energy Technologies, Inc. has announced that the Company has entered into Phase 2 of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Rene ... more
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BIJ, finergia and meeco sign MoU on Japanese market
The meeco Group has made a significant step forward in its penetration of the Japanese solar market by agreeing on Terms for a new joint venture (JV) with BIJ Corporation, a solar energy system prov ... more
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JinkoSolar Delivers First Distributed Rooftop PV System to Eaton Electric
JinkoSolar Holding has announced that its first 100 kWp distributed rooftop photovoltaic ("PV") power generation system for Eaton Electric Co., Ltd. ("Eaton"), was successfully connected to the grid ... more
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Bosch Solar Energy Completes 1.9 Megawatt Project in Maui County
Bosch Solar Energy, a division of the Bosch Group, has completed the largest solar photovoltaic project in Maui County, Hawaii. The project will provide power for 11 sites with a combined syst ... more
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Toronto breakthrough promises much more efficient solar cells
A new technique developed by University of Toronto Engineering Professor Ted Sargent and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper publis ... more
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Panasonic and Pristine Sun To Build 50MW of California Solar Farms

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Trina Solar bullish on UK solar prospects

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Tindo Solar Partners With Solarbridge Technologies

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Saudis rev up plans for renewable energy

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EU begins tracking imports of Chinese solar products

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Alta Achieves 30.8 percent Efficiency Record with New Generation Solar Cell Technology

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