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Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009

Òne Million Jobs Could Be Created In The US By Switching to Clean Energy

One million more jobs would be created in renewables in G8 countries by 2020 if the leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed to switch from coal and other climate-destroying conventional energy sources to renewables in order to help slash carbon emissions and avert a climate catastrophe

7 Jul 2009

CIGS Solar Panels Cheaper and Use Less Raw Materials Than Traditional Solar Panels

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials

7 Jul 2009

Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Tune Nanowires That Make Solar Panels More Efficient At Generating Electricity

A Stanford team has worked out how to tune and improve the light absorption efficiency of the nanowires for use in photovoltaic solar panels

7 Jul 2009

Green Roadway Project to Promote Environmentally Sustainable Technology and Renewable Energy Along the Historic Route 66

Gearing up for its national rollout, The Green Roadway Project demonstrated its new clean energy technology on old Route 66 and received the endorsement of the Route 66 Alliance

7 Jul 2009

Solar Energy Demand Switches From Europe and the USA To Asian Countries

The global solar power industry is currently going through turbulent times. In the last few months, reviews of previously planned expansion programs, restructuring, lower revenue and profit forecasts, and cuts in production levels by solar power companies were widely covered in the news

7 Jul 2009

Burger King Drive Through to Generate Electricity From Moving Cars

New Energy Technologies, today announced that engineers have completed development of the Company’s newest MotionPower prototype for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks, and will now undertake active field tests of the device at a drive-thru located at a prominent Burger King® franchise in the New York metropolitan area

6 Jul 2009

Californian Curved Roof Gets Sole Power Tile System from SRS Energy

SRS Energy, a leading developer of sustainable solar roofing products, has completed one of the first residential installations of the Sole Power Tile system at a residence in Bermuda Dunes, CA. The Sole Power Tile is the first building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing product designed for curved roofing systems

6 Jul 2009