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REC Solar Installs 1,170 REC 220 W Solar Modules to Produce 400,000 kWh Electric Power at Hawaii

REC Solar, a company known for its grid connected residential and commercial installations, has completed its solar power installation project at the Kapolei Inline Hockey stadiums in Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands.

28 Jul 2010

New Exelon City Solar Plant Expected to Produce 14,000 MW-h to Power 1500 Homes

Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago and John Rowe, Chairman and CEO of Exelon Corporation has dedicated the Exelon City Solar the leading urban solar power plant constructed in a 41 acre site at West Pullman area which was vacant for more than 30 years has been rehabilitated to produce clean energy for the benefit of the community.

28 Jul 2010

ENN Solar Energy to Continue With Thin Film Solar Cell Know-How

This announcement came in the wake of a statement made by Applied Materials, Inc about reorganizing its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) section and discontinuing the sale of SunFab fully-integrated lines that allow manufacturing of thin film solar panels and its intention to sell individual tools to thin film solar module producers.

27 Jul 2010

IBM Smartphones to Assess CO2 Data from Solar Powered Unmanned Vehicle

The vehicles fitted with IBM Human Centric Solutions introduced Smartphones are expected to monitor and gather details on CO2 contaminants in places such as Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Crotia, Ukrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia and China during the course of the journey.

27 Jul 2010

ET Solar to Supply 910 kW Solar Modules for Solar 4 All(TM) Program of PSE+G in Newark USA

As per the clauses of the agreement ET solar has to supply a total 910 kW worth of 280 W PV modules for the purpose installation over two rooftop structures and two carport constructions situated at Camden Street School in Newark.

27 Jul 2010

Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Formed to Discover Cheaper Energy Alternatives

Daniel Poneman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, has created a Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) last Friday.

27 Jul 2010

India to Focus on 1000 MW Solar Energy Production by 2013

The joint press meet unveiled the planned guidelines for selecting fresh grid connected solar power projects. According to Shinde PFC and REC will support and finance some of the planned grid connected projects.

27 Jul 2010

Graphene OPV cells Might become Economical and Convenient in the Future

Flexible transparent carbon atom films have been developed by a Southern California University team. The researchers opine that these films have a great potential towards a new solar cell breed.

27 Jul 2010

Cheap Solar Panels Yield Raised by TU Delft

Gijs van Elzakker, a Ph.D scholar from TU Delft, working in Inventux and his team have increased the energy yield of cheap solar panels from 7% to 9% using amorphous silicon as a very thin layer of silicon is sufficient to produce thin film solar cells unlike the more conventional crystalline silicon.

27 Jul 2010

Solar for All Conduct Design Contest

Solar energy, which is a clean source of energy, has great potential if it is regulated and inexpensive for consumers with low wages To meet this goal Solar for All has been conducting a design competition that is run by the Canopus Foundation to stumble on and reward technical innovations that make use of solar photovoltaic technology most appropriate for the developing world in terms of cost and accessibility.

27 Jul 2010