Photovoltaic News
Residential Solar
Massachusetts Utilities Seek Long-Term Green Energy Deals
Legislation passed in 2008 requires Massachusetts utilities that buy and distribute power to sign contracts with renewable energy suppliers. The goal is...
Honda Unveils Amazing Solar Hydrogen Station Prototype
Imagine going to the refueling station by entering your garage. Honda Motors is trying to make that notion a reality with the announcement of its new Honda...
Jack Johnson, Cake to Release 100 Percent Solar-Made Albums
Jack Johnson is a well-known musician and environmentalist. His charm, endearing wisp of a voice, barefoot mentality and tireless environmental activism...
Pentagon Acknowledges Climate Change in Latest Defense Review
They say war makes for strange bedfellows, a saying more true with every war and conflict fought. And now a new war is upon us – one much larger...
One Building that Proves Solar Power Can Be Profitable
In central France lies Poitiers, a city rich in Roman architecture and medieval history. Modern building in Poitiers is constructing a new sort of history,...
Photovoltaic Products
New Product: Bernoulli Gripper from Festo enables ‘contactless handling’
Product Briefing Outline: Festo has introduced a Bernoulli Gripper for transporting delicate work pieces such as solar cells and wafers. The most particular...
New Product: BTU’s ‘Perseas’ Platform handles pilot to production CdTe thermal processing
Product Briefing Outline: BTU International has launched a product platform designed specifically for the thermal processing steps of cadmium telluride...
New Product: Camstar’s Enterprise Platform, Version 4.5 offers closed-loop quality process
Product Briefing Outline: Camstar Systems has released ‘Camstar Enterprise Platform’ Version 4.5 for general availability. Enhancements in...
New Product: D380 ‘TwinPack’ microinverter from Enphase lowers BoS costs and installation time
Product Briefing Outline: Enphase Energy is introducing the D380 ‘TwinPack’, a new product optimized for commercial installations. The D380...
New Product: KUKA Systems has partnered with tesa SE to develop a new tape head module
Product Briefing Outline: KUKA Systems has partnered with tesa SE to develop a new tape head module, ROBO TAPE R, which is used in the final automated...
Solar Panel Updates
AltaTerra Research Web Conference Presents Status Update and Outlook for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs in North American and Worldwide
Once “unthinkable” in North America, renewable energy feed-in tariffs are gaining momentum in the U.S. and elsewhere. On March 4th, author,...
SolarCraft is Awarded Green Business of the Year
SolarCraft has been selected by the Novato Chamber of Commerce (NCOC) as the inaugural recipient of its Green Business of the Year Award. In business...
25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
A new study released by Navigant Consulting finads that a 25% by 2025 national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would support hundreds of thousands...
US Government Budget Proposals Increase Clean Energy Funding
President Barack Obama unveiled on February 1 a $28.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2011, including $2.36 billion for the DOE Office...
Abengoa & JCI Installing Solar Thermal System at Colorado Prison
Abengoa Solar Inc., under contract to Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI), is installing a turnkey solar hot water heating system at the Federal Correctional Institution...
Renewable Energy Stocks
Investorideas.com Reports Energy Commentary- "U.S. Renewable Energy: A Self-Inflicted Crisis in the Making" One of Most Read Articles
WA, Delta B.C. – February 7, 2010 (Investorideas.com) – www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leading investor research portal specialized in sector investing...
Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (TSX.V: NGP, OTCBB: NGLPF) named as part of 2010 TSX Venture 50
VANCOUVER – February 8, 2010 (Investorideas.com) – TSX Venture Exchange today announced that Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (TSX.V: NGP, OTCBB:...
Western Wind Energy (TSX.V:WND) named as part of 2010 TSX Venture 50
VANCOUVER – February 8, 2010 (Investorideas.com) – The TSX Venture Exchange today announced that WESTERN WIND ENERGY CORP. (TSX.V:WND) has...
Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal
WASHINGTON – February 8, 2010 – President Barack Obama today announced a series of steps his Administration is taking as part of its comprehensive...
Gold Stocks & Mining Stocks Newswire, RSS Feed in Top 10 Most Visited Pages at Investorideas.com
POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC – February 8, 2010 – www.InvestorIdeas.com, and its mining stocks portals www.Gold-MiningStocks.com and www.MiningSectorStocks.com,...
CSP-Concentrating Solar Power
Tandem challenge: Torresol Energy’s dual strategy
CSP Today speaks to Torresol Energy Energy’s Alfredo de Andrés, Project Director of Valle 1 and Valle 2, to learn more about the challenges...
Tandem challenge: Torresol Energy’s dual strategy
CSP Today speaks to Torresol Energy’s Alfredo de Andrés, Project Director of Valle 1 and Valle 2, to learn more about the challenges and advantages...
Weekly Intelligence Brief: February 01 – 08
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes: Climate Change Committee; Broadlands; Solar Millennium; and the CPUC. read more Weekly Intelligence Brief:...
Weekly Intelligence Brief: January 25 – February 01
This week’s CSP Today news round up includes: Tessera Solar & Stirling Energy Systems; Solar Millennium; Archimede Solar Energy; Babcock &...
Breaking the heat barrier: SHEC Energy’s red hot technology
Canadian research and technology company, Shec Energy Inc, has developed concentrator and receiver technology that, it says, can generate power four times...
Latest Solar News
Elusive Goal of Greening U.S. Energy
Growth in clean energy industries and green jobs has been slower than anticipated, with some green-industry companies shedding jobs in the United States. Elusive...
China Racing Ahead of U.S. in the Drive to Go Solar
With cheap loans, labor and electricity, Chinese companies are pulling ahead in the solar product industry. China Racing Ahead of U.S. in the Drive to...
Signs of Hope
The U.S. has the intellectual resources and expertise to lead in the development of clean energy. It just needs the will to make it happen. Signs of Hope Read More →
Making Renewables Reliable
Government mandates are beginning to require the use of alternative energy sources like wind and solar. Integrating these unreliable sources into the grid...
Chinese Solar Panel Firm to Open Plant in Arizona
The solar panel manufacturer, the first Chinese solar company to build a plant in the United States, will initially hire 75 workers. Chinese Solar Panel...
The Solar Buzz
Toyota Ready to Recall Prius Hybrids
Japanese newspapers are reporting that Toyota is getting ready to recall the Prius Hybrid line because of faulty breaking system. The announcement is expected...
Jobs In Solar: Solar Panel, Photovoltaic, PV Installer & sales With Experience wanted (Atlanta)
Date: 2010-02-05, 10:06PM ESTReply to: job-ed4mw-1588197600@craigslist.org Local...
Solar is Tops with Angel Investors
Green power start-up are winning the favor of investors lately. They promise a shorter quicker path to profitability than some more traditional industries....
Solar All Through The Night
“Solar thermal power with storage will soon be cheaper than new coal-fired power stations according to US Department of Energy projections.”...
Jobs In Solar: Site Superintendent – Electrician in NJ/PA (NJ / PA)
Date: 2010-01-25, 6:20PM ESTReply to: job-fwd4w-1570434989@craigslist.org Borrego...
Science of Solar Power
Habit-learning device will lower energy bills under new clean energy cashback scheme
Smart control units that learn householders’ energy habits and provide immediate feedback on consumption could give home energy savings of up to...
Sunny Record: Breakthrough for Hybrid Solar Cells
Scientists in Germany have succeeded in developing a method for treating the surface of nanoparticles which greatly improves the efficiency of organic...
New solar pond distillation system devised
Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond...
Solar-powered irrigation significantly improves diet and income in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Solar-powered drip irrigation systems significantly enhance household incomes and nutritional intake of villagers in arid sub-Saharan Africa, according...
Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used
Scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. Glitter-sized solar...
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