Solar Energy News

RSS

World's First Hybrid Solar Power Plant to be Built With Custom Aluminum Frames From Hydro

Hydro's Extrusion Americas unit has signed an agreement with Florida Power and Light (FPL) to supply custom aluminum extrusions for the first hybrid solar/fossil fuel energy generating facility in the world

27 Jul 2009

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Visits Applied Materials Solar Panel Testing Facility in China

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations visited the world's largest thin film solar panel manufactured by Applied Materials' SunFab production line during a visit to the company's SunFab Solar Module Reliability Testing facility on Saturday

27 Jul 2009

Wacker Releases New Protective Material for Encasing Solar Cells

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, will be using the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition to present a new thermoplastic encapsulant for the manufacture of photovoltaic modules

23 Jul 2009

Thin Film Solar Cells Made From Compound Semiconductors

The laboratory for photovoltaics of the University of Luxembourg has produced its first thin film solar cells made from compound semiconductors, already reaching a 12 percent efficiency. Thin film solar cells are considered the next generation of solar cells and are expected to be considerably cheaper

23 Jul 2009

Ultra Accelerated Weathering System, Parabolic Trough Solar Concentrating Collector and Microbattery Named As Top Innovators

An ultra-accelerated weathering system, a parabolic trough solar concentrating collector, and a microbattery, all developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), were honored as top 100 innovations for 2009 by R and D Magazine

23 Jul 2009

TSMTM Integrated Metrology System to Improve Solar Cell Manufacturing

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announced the launch of its TSMTM integrated metrology system

23 Jul 2009

Ultra Efficient Next Generation Solar Cells Likely to Result From DOE Research Funding

Sunovia Energy Technologies, and its partner EPIR Technologies, announced today the United States Department of Energy has awarded a second contract to EPIR Technologies to provide improved infrared (IR) detectors to be used in a new generation of tools for the inspection and characterization of infrared materials and products

23 Jul 2009

Budget Boost to Bio Solar Cell Technology

On Friday, July 10, the research program Towards Biosolar Cells was granted a budget of 25 million euros by the Dutch Government. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality recommended the program because it will contribute to green energy, improve food supplies and a create a more sustainable biomass

21 Jul 2009

German Photovoltaic Industry Continues to Grow

The sales turnover of the manufacturers of equipment, machinery and plants for the photovoltaic industry in Germany for the first quarter of 2009 has exceeded the respective quarter of last year by 60 per cent

19 Jul 2009

Germany Leading the Way on Solar Photovoltaic Power

Germany has been leading the way towards a healthy solar energy market for some years now. Despite the global economic crisis, and a decreasing feed-in tariff, the German market has been reporting growth figures of around 20-30 percent per year, and solar energy companies in Germany are reasonably optimistic about the near future

16 Jul 2009