The Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its Volther hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The hybrid system allows extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water while optimising efficiency, the company says. Historically, the main drawback of many conventional photovoltaic (PV) systems has been the high initial [...]
2010 Solar Millennium AG has hit another milestone on the road to realizing its first parabolic trough power plants in the American southwest. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a power purchase agreement between Solar Millennium’s American project development unit Solar Millennium LLC, Berkeley, and the US energy provider Southern California Edison (SCE) [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Susan Hockfield and Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni recently celebrated the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center (SFC). Originally announced in July 2008, the Solar Frontiers Center, headquartered on the MIT campus, promotes research in advanced solar technologies through projects ranging from new materials to hydrogen [...]
Alternative Energy Partners , provider of comprehensive alternative energy solutions, is pleased to announce that Cliff Bream will be joining its Board of Directors. Bream is an accomplished executive and investor with over 25 years’ experience leading industry giants in a variety of sectors. After beginning his career at Proctor & Gamble, he moved on [...]
NJR Clean Energy Ventures (NJRCEV), a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today announced an agreement with Adler Development of Edison, NJ to lease space atop four, fully occupied buildings in central New Jersey for rooftop solar systems. The $17 million project, developed with United Solar’s technical expertise, will be capable of generating 3.9 megawatts of [...]
A new solar farm will soon enable Tennessee’s Knox County officials to harvest sunshine to meet the hot water demands at the county’s 1,036-bed detention facility. Officials anticipate that the new solar thermal system, one of the nation’s largest for domestic hot water according to FLS Energy – the solar company with which Trane worked [...]
Ottawa’s Hunt Club Estates is the first townhouse and condo facility in Ottawa to make the switch to solar heating technologies. The Government of Canada’s ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat Program has invested $312,500 to Sustainable Ottawa’s Solar H2Ottawa program which is providing over $26,000 to Hunt Club Estates’ solar thermal system project. The first phase [...]
Solar EOS in partnership with SNRY Solar is offering a variety of technical and business training courses for those interested in building their solar energy business. The goal is to create a level of understanding of the core concepts necessary to work with all solar systems, including solar thermal domestic hot water and photovoltaic. To [...]
A recent article from”Beyond Zero Emissions” suggests that all is not well with the Solar Thermal Industry in the “land down under” . It appears that the federal government is eager to show new support for the industry after cristism for allowing a solar thermal Australian startup company ( Ausra) to be purchased by a global energy company. The government [...]
A student-led and student-run Renewable Energy Initiative (REI) at Appalachian State University has financed the installation of a solar thermal water heating system installed on the roof of Plemmons Student Union. The system will provide hot water for the building’s restaurants, locker rooms and bathroom facilities. The $153,000 system was manufactured and installed by SunQest [...]
The creative arts building design at Haywood Community College in North Carolina is one of the first public buildings in the state to be built under a new state law requiring enhanced energy performance. As such, the project architect is predicting it will generate a lot of interest. “The state construction and state energy offices [...]
Linamar Corp. is expanding its local workforce with a new $200-million investment in the city of Guelph , Ontario,Canada. Chief executive officer Linda Hasenfratz said the company has already begun hiring between 1,200 and 1,300 people over three years to work in its local car parts and solar thermal dish manufacturing plants. Linamar has been developing [...]
Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design, supply and provide site advisory services for two sets of solar steam generators (preheaters, kettle type evaporators, superheaters and reheaters) as well as low pressure and high pressure feedwater heaters. The contract was [...]
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Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
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