New Engineered Foundation for Solar Tree® Structures Facilitates Fast & Easy Installation of Envision Solar’s Drag & Drop Infrastructure™ Product Line SAN DIEGO, April, 2013 Envision Solar International, Inc, a leading sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer, today announced that the company has successfully completed the engineering, manufacturing and installation of its engineered, pre-fabricated foundations [...]
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, the Swiss pilots and founders of Solar Impulse, announced recently that their solar-powered airplane will attempt a coast-to-coast crossing of the U.S. this spring without using a single drop of fuel. It will be the first time that an airplane, capable of flying 24 hours non-stop day and night powered [...]
THORNTON, Colorado. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a manufacturer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced this week the retail debut of the company’s EnerPlex solar assisted battery case for the Samsung Galaxy S III. The EnerPlex Surfr for Galaxy S III takes advantage of Ascent’s ultra-light, thin and flexible solar panels and enables Galaxy [...]
ROCKLIN, Calif., December, 2012—SMA has launched a new, user-friendly Web version of its Sunny Design software for installers and solar professionals. Sunny Design Web offers the same useful features as the desktop software and includes additional enhancements in a free (with registration), easy-to-use web format. Sunny Design was previously available as desktop software for download, [...]
Dec 8 2012 | Posted in
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THORNTON, Colorado. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a manufacturer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced today the release of the company’s newest consumer product, the EnerPlex Kickr IV, now available for sale on www.EnerPlex.biz/Kickr. The EnerPlex Kickr IV is a rugged, lightweight and compact solar charging solution, perfect for a day at the beach, [...]
Nov 12 2012 | Posted in
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San Francisco, November 2012 – Leading software provider Vela Solaris has released a new version of its solar software Polysun. Polysun consistently improves and builds on its already high design standards with a series of effective regional adjustments. Up-to-date, reliable worldwide weather data, 12 different languages, European, American and Chinese product databases as well as [...]
Nov 10 2012 | Posted in
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Union City, California Nov 7, 2012 DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTI) (“DayStar”) (“the company”) has entered into a LOI (“Letter of Intent”) with Premier Global Holdings Corporation to acquire 100% of its outstanding shares. The LOI is subject to satisfactory completion of due diligence, as well as Board of Directors and Shareholders approvals. Premier Global [...]
Victoria, British Columbia. In a project valued at over $400,000, Mexican officials have selected the EG500 solar-powered outdoor lighting system to illuminate the country’s latest major superhighway, Supervia Poniente. The EG500 solar outdoor lighting system, developed by Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH)(Pink Sheets: CMHXF), represents the company’s largest solar outdoor lighting product capable of producing [...]
Nov 7 2012 | Posted in
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Thomson, IL. On Monday (October 29th), Hurricane Sandy left over 8 million people without power. The devastating storm ripped down power lines and submerged parts of electrical grids across the Northeast part of the country. However, some people were still able to run their refrigerator, lights, iPads, iPhones, or a weather radio. These people had [...]
Nov 7 2012 | Posted in
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17/10/2012 Solarcentury, the UK’s leading solar energy company, has today announced it’s to donate over $56,550.07 to SolarAid’s ‘Share a light’ campaign. Continuing its on-going commitment to SolarAid, the charity founded by Solarcentury to tackle poverty and climate change with solar power, this donation comes as five per cent of its annual profit for 2011/2012. [...]
Oct 19 2012 | Posted in
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THORNTON, Colorado. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc, a developer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced today the initial sale of SOLab Basic and SOLab Premium products, as branded by Ascent’s joint development partner, CTC CarTech Company. SOLab is an autonomous solar charger meant for automotive battery cycling & trickle charging. The innovation of integrating Ascent’s [...]
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Pythagoras Solar, provider of “powered by Pythagoras†solar windows, announced recently that its photovoltaic glass unit (PVGU) has been tested to the UL 1703 standard by Intertek and has successfully gained ETL certification. Pythagoras Solar’s PVGU is the industry’s first solar window to simultaneously provide energy efficiency, high solar power density and optimized daylighting. “The [...]
Sometimes solar arrays get a bad name for being too ‘needy.’ In other words, the common perception is that they need a big, open, flat field that receives a lot of direct sunlight with minimum cloud cover to operate at full capacity. However, General Motors is demonstrating that this need for space is not always [...]