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New Materials Will More Important in Thin Film Photovoltaics

A new report from industry analyst firm NanoMarkets says that, while glass will continue to dominate substrate and encapsulation materials used for thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV), new materials including metal foils, plastics, ceramics and composites will grow rapidly in importance.

12 Oct 2010

CleanEdison Desires the White House to Take Advantage of Solar Installation to Propagate Clean Energy

Earlier Nancy Sutley, Chief of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, had issued the program of incorporating solar PV panels and solar thermal panels over the top of the White House.

12 Oct 2010

Solar Energy Initiatives Signs Power Purchase Agreements with Tennessee Valley Authority

Solar Energy Initiatives Inc, a solar project development and distribution company, declared that it has contracted three Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

12 Oct 2010

Drexel University Buys RECs to Match 100% of its Energy Usage

The Greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator of Environmental Protection Agency indicates that the environmental benefits accrued from the REC purchase includes reduction of roughly 60,518 metric tons of CO2 emissions every year which is comparable to carbon intake of trees planted over 12,904 acres or stopping the usage of around 11,571 passenger cars from the road.

12 Oct 2010

Reportlinker Predicts 430.6 GW Wind Power Production in 2015

The Reportlinker report titled ‘Benchmarking of Wind with Solar Energy’ predicts that global power production through wind energy will reach a stupendous 430.6 GW in the year 2015 while the solar PV will follow it with 125.9 GW and solar thermal with 20 GW power generation capabilities respectively.

12 Oct 2010

MicroPlanet’s Smart Grid Products are on Display in the Website of the US Governemnt

Brett Ironside, MicroPlanet’s CEO and President, said that the remote power grid of Hawaii islands incurs high costs on electrical energy production and has innate problems in delivery quality power, which provides a perfect setting to utilize MicroPlanet's smart grid products and take advantage of the benefits it offers.

12 Oct 2010

PsomasFMG’s to Implement Solar Power Solution for Antelope Valley Union High School District

The solar project includes participation by ten school campuses in the AVUHSD. As a part of the project PsomasFMG will construct steel-frame coverings to hold the solar panels and to offer shade for the parking lot to keep around 4,000 vehicles of the students and faculties.

12 Oct 2010

enXco Service Corporation Enters O&M Accord with Flat Water Wind Farm

The Flat Water Wind Farm owned by the affiliate company of Gestamp Renewables is a 65 MW wind power producing project situated in Richardson County, Nebraska.

12 Oct 2010

GE Enters Poland’s Commercial Wind Sector by Completing E.ON Wind Farm

GE utilized its 2.5-100 technology in Poland for the first time in the Nekla project owned by E.ON Climate and Renewables a Polish company.

12 Oct 2010

Frameless Solar Modules from Solaria Will Improve the Economics of Utilities and Large Scale Installers

Solaria solar modules are offered in 230 W, 220 W and 210 W ranges and offer reliable power performance normally associated with the conventional type of crystalline solar modules.

12 Oct 2010

Arizona Public Service Requests Bids From Solar Installers to Assist Low-income Families

The solar systems to be installed over the building complexes will allow the families to exploit the copious solar power for their benefit.

12 Oct 2010

Bloo Solar Makes it to the GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100 Winner List

Bloo Solar, a company that incorporates third generation solar expertise in its solar PV panels to optimize their performance, declared that it has been selected by AlwaysOn, a business media brand networking company, as one among the GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100 winners.

11 Oct 2010