With a massive development going in the field of solar power production, it’s great news that IKEA has planned to install the solar energy system on top of its Cincinnati-area store. (more…)
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IKEA Solar Energy System at Cincinnati-Area Store
Thursday, January 26th, 2012First Solar Record Breaking Performance at 14.4% Efficiency
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
On 17th of January 2012, the First Solar Inc. announced that it has set a new world record by using cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic solar module, which has achieved the record breaking 14.4% total area efficiency. (more…)
Austin Chemist Proposes Significant Increase in Solar Cells Efficiency
Monday, January 16th, 2012
A professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, Xiaoyang Zhu, and his team have successfully discovered a method to increase the efficiency of conventional solar cells. Their research reveals that the number of electrons gathered from one photon of sunlight can be doubled using an organic plastic semiconductor material. (more…)
US to Setback China Solar Case by February
Monday, December 26th, 2011
According to a department official in SolarWorld, the US unit of German solar energy company, the final decision depends on the US Commerce Department that requires extra months to investigate case related to charges of unfair Chinese government subsidies. (more…)
Georgia’s Largest Solar Canopy Powered by Suniva
Monday, November 21st, 2011
According to the latest reports, Suniva, a high-efficiency crystalline silicon cells and modules manufacturer in the United States will power the Georgia’s largest solar canopy at the Laredo Bus facility in Decatur, GA. This project will be the second largest canopy with a power of 1.2MW in the U.S. located at a U.S. transit system. On November 18th, 2011, The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and raised a curtain of the project. (more…)
Are your solar roofs really efficient?
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
The University of Gothenburg has launched a revolutionary tool, that can determine the highest possible magnitude of solar incidence on a roof, a town or the whole city. The scientists have used the city of Gothenburg for this pilot project. The University of Gothenburg has partenered with WSP consultants to develop this GIS system, called ‘SEES’ ( Solar Energy from Existing Structures) that can actually measure the potential of solar roofs to produce solar energy from the panels. (more…)
California prisons installed with solar panels
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Solar Panels (Creative Commons / Fernando Tomás)
California state prisons will capitalize on the advantages of solar energy thanks to the construction of solar power plants at its prison grounds, credit California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and SunEdison. The solar panels will be erected at Chuckawalla Valley and Ironwood State Prisons in Blythe, Kern State Prison in Delano and California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi respectively. While the four solar panel projects are undergoing their construction phase and will start generating power by late December, the fifth installation at California State Prison, Los Angeles County is expected to be complete by coming summer along with the second phase of the Tehachapi project.
GE Unveils Largest Solar Plant
Monday, October 17th, 2011
GFDL/Mhassan abdollahi
GE has decided to instigate its Chinese counterparts and market leader First Solar by announcing its intentions to build the largest solar PV, 400MW capacity manufacturing plant in Aurora, Colorado, just east of Denver. Until now, the market graph was dominated by First Solar who produces thin film solar panels with an efficiency rate of 11.7 per cent. Although, the company plans to increase the efficiency to 13.5 – 14.5 per cent by 2014, GE thin film panels efficiency rate would already be 14 percent when its first batch rolls out in 2013. (more…)
Copper Nanowire: A Lucrative Technology for Touch Screen, LED and Solar Cell
Monday, October 10th, 2011
A new research has unveiled that the copper nanowires can be used to compose screens of cell phones, e-readers and iPads. These nanostructures will reduce the cost of manufacturing electric displays. Hence, they will bring an era of fold-able electronics as well improvise solar cells. (more…)
Solar Developers Look for Land in Massachusetts
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Though the future does not seem much brighter for solar power developers, recent developments could now turn the town into solar capital of New England, said Jack Hunter, Carver’s planning director.
He also quoted that solar players’ demand for land could change growers’ future who were selling their land to real estate developers though housing sector was not doing well.