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Promising News for Solar Fuels from Berkeley Lab Researchers at JCAP

Mar 08, 2014 (SPX)

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center...

Solano Community College District Celebrates 2.8MW of SunPower Solar Power Systems

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Solano Community College District (SCCD), SunPower and Kitchell have dedicated 2.8 megawatts of solar power systems installed at three district locations. Accor...

Schneider Electric surpasses one GW PV-Solar service milestone in 2013

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

The Solar Business of Schneider Electric is proud to announce that it reached a major milestone at the end of 2013 by surpassing over one GW of cumulated Schnei...

Sunpreme Launches Premium Solar 2.0 Maxima GxB Solar Modules

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Sunpreme is launching the Maxima GxB-340W and GxB-280W bi-facial modules. They utilize the third generation embodiment of Sunpreme's 156mm HCT based PV cells, p...

JA Solar to Supply 7.8MW of Square Mono Modules to British Solar Renewables

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

JA Solar Holdings has announced that it will supply 7.8MW of its high-efficiency full square mono solar modules to British Solar Renewables, a U.K.-based develo...

Unirac Supports Collegiate Solar Decathlon Sponsored by US DoE

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Unirac is proud to have partnered with the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Arizona State University (ASU) for the design of the SHADE house as part of the So...

ET Solar Builds Large Scale Solar Power Projects in UK

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

ET Solar Energy has announced that it has entered into the UK market and has started to construct an 8.4 MWp ground mounted solar power plant. The 8.4 MWp solar...

ReneSola Provides High-Efficiency Modules to 11.7MW Solar Project in Italy

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

ReneSola has announced it has delivered approximately 45,900 of its high-efficiency modules to the Photovoltaic Plant of Ferrara Aranova project, a 11.7MW groun...

Team models photosynthesis and finds room for improvement

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Teaching crop plants to concentrate carbon dioxide in their leaves could increase photosynthetic efficiency by 60 percent and yields by as much as 40 percent, r...

Trina Solar announces WEEE Directive compliance

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Trina Solar has announced that its product range is fully compliant with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, as compliance becomes m...

Centrosolar America To Deploy TSMC Solar CIGS Technology In North America

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Centrosolar America and TSMC Solar have announced an agreement for the deployment of TSMC Solar's CIGS solar modules across North America. The territory covered...

Superabsorbing Design May Lower Manufacturing Cost of Thin Film Solar Cells

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a "superabsorbing" design that may significantly improve the light absorption efficiency of thin...

Australian Solar Industry Ready For Review

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

The renewable energy industry in Australia has welcomed the start of the Federal Government's review of the Renewable Energy Target, saying the scheme's low cos...

A Rise in Solar Powered Farms Shines Light on Need for Security Measures

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Last week, the United States Department of the Interior approved two additional solar projects in the Ivanpah Valley area of the Mojave Desert. These two projec...

JA Solar Breaks Own Mono Crystalline Conversion Record

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

JA Solar Holdings has announced that its multi-crystalline silicon ("multi-Si") solar cells have surpassed 19% conversion efficiency. This latest improvement in...

SMA Solar Uses Technology Tie-Up To Meet Growing Industry Challenges

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

The announcement that Danfoss would sell its entire solar inverter business line to SMA and in return acquire a 20% share of SMA for just over euro 300m highlig...

Canadian Solar To Supply Hitachi Project In Japan

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Canadian Solar has announced that it has been awarded a module supply agreement to provide 18MW of photovoltaic modules to Hitachi for a solar power project in ...

Power Electronics PV Plant Takes Chile To 10MW

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Power Electronics has successfully completed the supply and commissioning of PV Plant Los Puquios 3MW in Tarapaca- the first 3MW in Chile and a first for Power ...

Locus Energy Offers Monitoring System For Commercial and Utility-Scale Solar

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Locus Energy has launched the LGate 360, its next-generation control panel designed specifically for plug-and-play performance data acquisition for commercial a...

Kyocera Modules Get The Thumbs Up At Europe's Largest Solar Research Institute

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Kyocera has announced that its solar modules installed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have been independently tested and their perfo...