Solar Thermal Energy Equipment Manufacturing Will Grow Over Next Five Years

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The Solar Thermal Energy Equipment Manufacturing industry will gain ground over the next five years, according to IBISWorld, the nation’s largest publisher of industry research. Industry revenue is set to grow to $273.1 million in the five years to 2016. Revenue growth will slow down as the positive effects of the manufacturing tax credit end. [...]

First Solar PV Company from India to Achieve 100 MW of Installations Globally Under its Own Brand

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Based on customer orders totalling more than Rs 1200 crores, it looks like the PV business of Moser Baer is poised to lead the country’s solar mission in the next few years.

SolarFun Power Holdings Opens Connecticut Office

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Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of silicon ingots, wafers and photovoltaic cells and modules, said it is opening a new office in Cheshire, Connecticut, the company’s second location in North America. Solarfun also maintains a facility in Costa Mesa, California.

Educating the Public the Benefits of Clean Solar Energy

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Solar Generation USA Road Trip Shows Solar Working for America Today WASHINGTON – The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA®) has unveiled a new campaign to educate the public on the benefits of clean solar energy and to demonstrate how the technology is working reliably across the nation and saving clients money on their utility bills. [...]

Grants and Loans for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Installations

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Vermont gets $3.75 million in new rural renewable energy grants and loans Vermont’s Congressional Delegation – Senator Patrick Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Congressman Peter Welch (D) – reported Tuesday that 18 Vermont farms and rural businesses will share $3,750,930 in grants and loans to support energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy projects. [...]

Learn to Install Large Commercial Solar Thermal Hot Water Systems

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Heliodyne Launches Commercial Solar Water Heating Training Program California based solar hot water manufacturer Heliodyne has expanded its online training curriculum by now offering a course in commercial scale solar thermal design and installation. The advanced course is intended to educate professionals on system and installation topics related to larger commercial scale solar water heating [...]

Solar Workforce Census, Solar Permits and More at this Years Solar Power International Conference

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Solar Power International 2010, the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America, broke previous records for exhibitors and exhibit space for the sixth consecutive year. Taking over more than 1 million square feet of total gross space at the Los Angeles Convention Center Oct. 12-14, the sprawling exhibit floors featured 1,122 companies [...]

The Power of Combining Thermal Storage with Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology

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Sopogy, Inc., a leader in MicroCSP™ solar power technology development, manufacturing and installation, will supply its proprietary micro-scaled concentrated solar thermal collectors to the Keahole Solar Power (KSP) five-megawatt plant in Kalaeloa located on Oahu’s Leeward Coast. The project, named “Kalaeloa Solar One”, is a partnership between the State of Hawaii’s Department of Hawaiian Home [...]

New MIT Developed String Ribbon Solar Power Products

Evergreen Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of String Ribbon solar power products with its proprietary silicon wafer technology, featured its ES-A series solar panel, which is produced at the company’s U.S. manufacturing facility in Devens, Mass., at Solar Power International in Los Angeles, Calif. The Company said the ES-A series is a range of String Ribbon [...]

Yingli Green Energy Invests in 700 Mwatt of Solar PV Manufacturing Capacity

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand “Yingli Solar,” this week  announced its new 700 MW capacity expansion projects to be located at Baoding headquarters and in Hainan province. Yingli Green Energy plans to [...]

New $4 Billion Investment in Energy Storage Facility for Renewable Power Announced

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RUBENIUS, an energy services company based in the United Arab Emirates, says it intends to build an energy-storage facility based on sodium-sulfur battery technology on a 345-acre site the company recently purchased in Baja California, Mexico. The cost of the facility is estimated to exceed $4 billion. The company says it will offer the energy [...]

New Print-on-Print Process Raises the Efficiency of Solar PV Panels

DEK Solar used the recent EU PVSEC exhibition in Valencia to unveil the results of new research into the Print-on-Print (PoP) technique, an approach that improves cell efficiencies, can be dropped into mainstream commercial production and can reduce the costs of production.  Renowned alternative energies expert at DEK Solar, Tom Falcon has spent a large [...]

Largest Operating Photovoltaic Generating Plant opens in Sarnia, Ontario

Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. have completed the expansion of the Sarnia Solar Project from 20 megawatts of capacity to 80 megawatts (MW) making it the largest operating photovoltaic facility in the world. To celebrate this milestone, Enbridge will hold a Grand Opening celebration in Sarnia, Ontario. Enbridge and First Solar representatives along with [...]

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