SoloPower Inc. in California is set to actually unroll its interesting product in Portland. The company has ventured out to set up a factory in Portland to manufacture flexible solar panels!
According to the company, the flexible solar panels are designed to blanket rooftops like carpet and so, its target audience is buildings with big-box roofs that can’t support the weight of conventional solar panels. Initially, the company was little worried about the response from the potential buyers in the market. But, all thanks to prospective customers’ interest, response and willingness to pay a premium for much user-friendly product, the anxiety was transformed into confidence of being able to satisfy future customers’ demands for company’s world-class product, said the officials of SoloPower Inc. And so, company’s first commercial-size plant relies on industrial customers. (more…)
A solar array has been installed at the new Big Y supermarket in Lee, MA by Real Goods Solar, Smart Energy Capital and Hudson Energy Solar. The setup provides 15% of the building’s annual electricity needs. (more…)
On 11 September, 2012, Trina Solar Ltd. (TSL) revealed plans to shape its business by separating photovoltaic module and system units. This step was taken after the Chinese solar products maker made plans to reduce costs because of increasing competition in solar PV industry. (more…)
All thanks to ‘London Hydro’ and its offer of developing solar projects in the city, the residents of London hope to see the solar panels finally installed. If the council committee accepts the offer, London will be taking one more step to harness solar energy – one of the readily-available energies.
To discuss the offer and the project as a whole, a meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. ‘Strategy of creating solar panels on the rooftops of municipal buildings in London’ will be the agenda of this meeting. (more…)
If you are traveling to Oregon in the future, take a step back to visit the nation’s largest 1.75-megawatt (MW) solar highway project at Baldock Solar Station near Wilsonville, Oregon. (more…)
Schanti Partners, a US based agency in New York, is interested in investing INR 580 crore for setting up a solar energy project in Kaimur district of Bihar. (more…)
Solar energy installers and developers in New Jersey are against a proposal, that is detrimental to open space solar projects. The proposal if passed would make it difficult for the developers to get local sanctions for open space solar projects featuring solar panels mounted on ground. (more…)
Prototype concept for the Self-Contained, PV-powered Domestic Toilet and Wastewater Treatment System (Credit: Brian Lee)
Bill Gates is bettering the future of the developing world by investing in development of a solar-powered toilet. The world’s leading philanthropist has backed the plans of California Institute of Technology by handing over a $100,000 prize to their work on a self-contained toilet whose solar-powered system recycles water and breaks down human waste into storable energy. (more…)
Until a few years back, life in Meerwada used to go back to the Stone Age when demand for electricity deserted its residents. Kerosene lamps was the only source of light as villagers struggled to carry out their basic household chores.
But today the picture has changed as kids read their book with ease, fans provide relief in brutal summers and people enjoy their routine chores under the light. All this has been possible only because Meerwada was picked up by a US solar firm, SunEdison to test its business models who took on the initial but costly expense of installing hi-tech solar panels. (more…)
The world’s largest solar bridge at Brackfriars train station platform in London, is halfway complete as the 2,200th solar panel by Panasonic was installed on the roof of the station. Upon completion, more than 4,400 solar panels installed by Solar Century will generate 900,000 kWh of electricity a year. (more…)
