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June 17, 2013

Maxwell Technologies and Soitec Demonstrate Benefits Of Integrating Energy Storage With CPV Technology
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2013
Maxwell Technologies and Soitec have announced that they will collaborate on a California Energy Commission-funded, two-phase program to demonstrate the cost and efficiency benefits of combining an energy storage system with Soitec's Concentrix CPV technology. Maxwell has been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission's Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec's CPV system located on the ... read more

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KYOCERA Donates Solar Power Generating Systems to Schools in Tanzania and Uganda Kyocera has announced that it has donated solar power generating systems to four secondary schools in Tanzania and three primary schools in Uganda. Donation ceremonies were held at the schools in Ki ... more		Leading Companies Team Up to Develop an Unrivalled Lithium Sulfur Solar Energy Storage System A consortium of leading energy companies is to develop safe, lightweight and robust solar energy storage systems for the military around the world and will also be adapted for the commercial and res ... more		World's Largest Solar-Powered Boat Comes to Boston In support of its mission to build stronger relationships between scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators in Massachusetts and Switzerland, swissnex Boston is welcoming the world's largest solar-po ... more
				XIOLINK Installs Solar Panels Atop Downtown St. Louis Headquarters XIOLINK has announced the installation of an advanced solar electricity system to provide sustainable energy to its downtown St. Louis headquarters. XIOLINK's building at 1111 Olive St. becomes one ... more		For solar pilot, human endurance is the sky's limit Pilot Andre Borschberg oversaw the construction of a solar plane that can fly through the night, but these days the entrepreneur is more concerned with the limits of man than of technology. ... more

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Goal Zero and In-Q-Tel Sign Strategic Agreement to Develop Deployable Power Systems Goal Zero has announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT). IQT is a non-profit, strategic investor that identifies, adapts, and delivers innovative tech ... more		MECASOLAR leads a European R and D project The European Union has launched a new research project called OPTIMUS, part of the EUREKA Technology Cooperation Program, which over the next three years will focus on the research and development o ... more		CO2 soon to be buried under North Sea oil platform From farms to court, climate-hit communities take on big polluters From predator to plate: Japan bear crisis sparks culinary craze		1.3GW of PV Installations Eliminated by EU Anti-Dumping Duties in 2013 European photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to fall by more than 6 gigawatts (GW) in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese modules acco ... more
				DLR and CIEMAT commission a meteorological station for solar power plants How much solar energy reaches a power plant? Is the Sun often obscured by dust or other atmospheric particles? Power station operators need a great deal of meteorological data before deciding on the ... more		Testing Artificial Photosynthesis With the daily mean concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide having reached 400 parts-per-million for the first time in human history, the need for carbon-neutral alternatives to fossil fuel ene ... more

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Brill Install First Micro Inverted PV Systems In The North Of England Brill Energy, one of the North West's foremost installers of Solar PV Systems has announced the successful completion of the installation of a 28.5 Kilowatt Enphase Microinverter System at STM Power ... more		DuPont and Yingli Green Energy Sign Expanded Strategic Agreement DuPont and Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited (Yingli China), a wholly owned subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (Yingli Green Energy), have signed a new one year, $100 mill ... more		AI systems proposed to boost launch cadence reliability and traffic management China debuts Long March 12A reusable rocket in Jiuquan test flight Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun		Clean Energy Collective Awarded Three Additional Solar Gardens National leading solar garden developer Clean Energy Collective has announced it has been awarded three new community solar garden projects through Xcel Energy's Solar*Rewards Community program, bri ... more
				Chinese Antidumping Duties to Drive up Solar Polysilicon Devices China's pending move to slap antidumping tariffs on imported solar polysilicon from key countries will generate a surge in pricing for this key raw material in June and July-but the magnitude of the ... more		ET Solar Modules Installed in the Third Largest Commercial PV Plant in Chile ET Solar Group has announced that it has supplied 3.3 MW high quality modules to the third largest commercial PV plant project undertaken by Perihelio y Afelio , a local EPC company in Chile. ... more

US forest management policy must evolve to meet bioenergy targets

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Britain rolls out offshore wind power investment stimulation plan

Prysmian Group To Showcase At 2013 RenewableUK Offshore Wind In Manchester

Quantum To Buy 10 Megawatt Trout Creek Wind Farm

EU takes Germany to task over new auto coolant rules

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China auto sales growth slows in May: group

	US DoI Approves SolarReserve's 100 MW Arizona Solar Power Project U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the approval of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Quartzsite Solar Energy Project located in La Paz County, Ariz. With this authorization, So ... more		Growing Demand for New Production Homes with Solar Based on data provided by the California Solar Initiative (CSI), sales of new production homes with rooftop solar power systems nearly doubled from 2011 to 2012, signaling increasing home buyer dema ... more		Greenwood Biosar Commences Construction of One of Vermont's Largest Solar Arrays Greenwood Biosar has announced that it has commenced construction on one of Vermont's largest solar photovoltaic power plants, a 2.4MWp system, approximately 35 miles north of Burlington. "Gre ... more		BluEarth Renewables to Purchase Four Utility-Scale Solar Power Plants From Canadian Solar Canadian Solar has announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions, has entered into a sales agreement with a BluEarth Renewables subsidiary, whereby BluEarth will acquire from Canadian Sola ... more

China announces 'major' military drills around Taiwan

Israeli air force deploys first laser interception system

Iran says launches three satellites into space from Russia

Solar plane on cross-country trek lands in St. Louis		CTRL+P: Printing Australia's largest solar cells		Recurrent Announces Commercial Operation of PV Projects in Ontario		Verengo Announces 8,000th Solar Home Installation		Trina Solar supplies 10.5MW to Prosolia Energia
Japan Set to Become World's Largest Solar Revenue Market in 2013		Renewable energy project in Arizona, Nevada get U.S. approval		GreenLancer.com Launches "Virtual Engineering Center" Online Resource		EU defies Beijing, Berlin to impose levies on Chinese solar panels		EU faces tough decision on China solar panels

Organic polymers show sunny potential

MECASOLAR presents horizontal tracker

KYOCERA Solar Modules Power San Diego County's First Net-Zero Energy Apartments

Tenaska Sends First Energy from Large-scale Solar Project in the Imperial Valley

Aid project in Liberia

Yingli Green Energy Joins SolarAid to Spread Light for Learning in Africa

SolarCity and Goldman Sachs Create Largest US Rooftop Solar Lease Financing Platform

Canadian Solar Donates PV Modules to Power the OrcaLab Whale Research Centre

GaAs Nanowires Harvest Solar Power

Romano Wins Eskom Rooftop Project In Johannesburg

Yingli Supplies Modules for Largest Single PV Site In Malaysia

Merkel, Li urge dialogue to defuse EU-China trade spats

EU warns on China influence, offers opening on solar dispute

Trina Solar Modules Provide Solar Energy for the Bavarian State Chancellery

ConEdison Solutions delivers 3,900-panel solar rooftop for Boston Scientific

tenKsolar Announces General Availability of Industry Leading Rooftop Solar Solution

First Four-Junction Solar Cell for Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems

SolarEdge Unveils New Line Of Products

Solar Industry Capital Spending Hits Seven-Year Low in 2013

Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays

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