Trina Solar Limited, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, has announced that it will launch a partner program for installers in German-speaking markets on the 2nd of April 2012. The program is called Trina Solar Partner Plus and [...]
 In a third round of funding from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Clean Power Research® (www.cleanpower.com) will receive a grant of approximately $850,000 from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration (CSI RD&D) Program. As a result of the grant, Clean Power Research will implement new photovoltaic (PV) fleet simulation tools to cost-effectively predict the [...]
JA Solar Holdings Co, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar cells and solar power products, has announced that it has joined Intertek’s “Satellite Program.” A strategic cooperation MOU was also signed between Intertek and JA Solar to strengthen cooperation in the fields of quality, safety and ecology. Intertek’s “Satellite Program” is a [...]
Fossil fuels are finite, but the sun’s energy is inexhaustible – all of our planet’s energy resources in the form of oil, coal and natural gas add up to just 20 days of sunlight. Energy from the sun is not only a dependable long-term option but clean as well, and that is why it makes [...]
As part of the Obama Administration’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, today U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced over $12 million to speed solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace through the Energy Department’s SunShot Incubator program. The funding will accelerate American innovation in solar energy and manufacturing by supporting [...]
Here comes the sun Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward. More than 600 of these mirrors, each the size of half a tennis court, track the sun throughout the day, concentrating its rays on the central [...]
ESPOO, Finland. Â Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment, reports successful final results of the European Union 7th Framework Programme funded research project ROD-SOL. The goal of this multinational, inter-European, three years (2009-2011) project combining the efforts of both scientific and industrial partners has been to dramatically increase the efficiency [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced this week that Natcore Technology Inc. has been granted a patent license agreement to develop a line of black silicon products. Natcore and NREL also will enter a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop commercial prototypes based on NREL’s black silicon inventions [...]
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum. The external quantum efficiency for photocurrent, usually expressed as a [...]
Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint. How? Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are coated with cadmium sulfide (CdS) or cadmium selenide (CdSe.) The composite nanoparticles, when mixed with a solvent, form a paste that can [...]
Hypersolar claims to have developed a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power. Today they announced that this new technology can help reduce the need for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) used to access underground natural gas resources. The company’s renewable natural gas is a clean, carbon neutral methane gas that can be produced above ground [...]
It’s a new day for solar technologies in Canada with the official launch today of Toronto and Region Conservation’s (TRCA) Photovoltaic Performance Verification (PVPV) Program, a 3rd party, high-performance evaluation program for testing and showcasing Canadian solar technologies at The Living City Campus at Kortright , Canada’s leading green building and sustainable technologies centre in [...]
Award Will Fund a Two-Year Program for Flexible, High-Efficiency Solar Cells Magnolia Solar Corporation MGLT +98.68% (“Magnolia”) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., recently received a $750,000 Phase II award from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory as part of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. The award will [...]
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