
Bangalore, India. NavSemi Energy has unveiled their New Product Series of Solar Management Units (SMU), which will convert any conventional Inverter to Solar Inverter. With SMU Product Series NavSemi is targeting large customer base of existing installed home UPS & Inverters to convert them to Solar Inverter. “NavSemi envisions bringing solar energy to the masses [...]

Key Collaboration Seeks to Expand Solar Energy Adoption DuPont and Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world’s largest producer of solar panels, have signed a strategic agreement to help increase the supply of photovoltaic materials and technologies for the growing global market for solar energy. The agreement focuses on technology advancements, supply chain [...]

Proprietary technology offers efficient control of energy consumption and emergency storage capability Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) and Nichicon Corporation (Chairman: Ippei Takeda) announced that the two companies have completed an agreement for Kyocera to begin domestic sales this summer of a new energy management system (EMS) which combines Kyocera’s highly reliable solar power generating [...]

SunSi Energies Inc, a provider of the specialty chemical trichlorosilane (“TCS”) to polysilicon makers in the solar industry, today highlighted how it is positioned to be a beneficiary of the expected solar market rebound in 2012. SunSi’s management’s views are in lockstep with recent comments about the “solar market outlook” made by the chief executive [...]

PHOTON`s 7th Solar Electric Utility Conference convenes on Feb. 2 in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, California –In his 2012 State of the State speech on Jan. 18, California Governor Jerry Brown said the Golden State is on track to meet “and substantially exceed” a requirement he signed into law last year for utilities to supply 33 [...]

Wells Fargo & Company announced this week that equity financing is complete for a 53.5 megawatt (MW) multi-site solar project in New Mexico. The 53.5MW solar project, one of largest photovoltaic solar power projects in the U.S., was fully activated in December. The multi-site solar project was made possible through a power purchase agreement between [...]

Arista Power, Inc, a manufacturer, designer and integrator of renewable energy generation, management and distribution systems, announced today that Glenn Steed, Installation Coordinator of Arista Power, has earned the industry’s leading recognition of expertise as a certified installer of solar electric systems (aka “solar photovoltaic” or “solar PV” systems) from the North American Board of [...]
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The solar yield calculator app of Vario green energy is now available for Android smartphones. An iPhone version of it already exists. House and roof owners can calculate with the free app on their mobile phone, which yield a photovoltaic power plant would generate and how much CO² they can save. The program is available [...]

SunPower Corp. today announced that the company has broken ground on a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake) in California. The plant is expected to create 140 jobs during construction, and generate the equivalent of more than 30 percent of NAWS China Lake’s annual [...]

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced plans to install solar energy panels on five more of its United States locations – all of them in the Midwestern U.S. Pending governmental permits, installation can begin this Winter, with completion expected in Summer 2012. Implementation of these projects will extend the IKEA solar presence [...]

Onyx Service & Solutions Inc’s breakout business plan of competing internationally with costly diesel powered electricity is being bolstered by recent developments in another strong US ally — India. While most people would think about fast-growing developing countries which generate a lot of carbon emissions, they typically would think of China. After all, it’s the [...]

HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen and natural gas using water and solar power, today announced the appointment of Vikram M. Pattarkine, Ph.D. as Senior Advisor, Water Treatment. Dr. Pattarkine’s distinguished career spans more than three decades as a chemical-environmental engineer, with specific expertise in wastewater treatment [...]

Western Wind Energy Corp. (TSV: WND) (OTCQX: WNDEF), announced last week that it has signed a Module Supply Agreement (“MSA”) with a leading international, multi-billion dollar photo voltaic panel manufacturer for 42 MW DC (30 MW AC) for its Yabucoa Project located in Puerto Rico . The panels have been delivered and Western Wind Energy [...]