ET Solar Group (ET Solar), an advanced solar module manufacturer, announced at the 2015 Solar Power International (SPI) exhibition the certification and commercial availability of the new ET Cell Optimizer Module (COM). The ET COM modules incorporate next generation power management integrated circuits (ICs) developed by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Maxim), a leading manufacturer of mixed-signal and analog semiconductors.
Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.
Ontario-based utility PowerStream has launched a pilot solar storage program with Sunverge Energy, with the goal of dramatically reducing home electric bills and providing customers with additional outage protection. The pilot is a key component of the utility's plan to reduce overall power consumption in its service area by 535,440 MWh by 2020, which is the equivalent of taking more than 62,000 homes off the grid.
Protected areas not only keep significant swaths of Indonesia's shrinking mangrove habitats intact, but also prevent emissions of carbon dioxide that would have been released had these mangroves been cleared, according to a study in the journal Ecological Economics.
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a relatively inexpensive and simple way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through a new electrodeposition method. The method produces highly efficient solar cells that can gather solar energy for use as fuel.
SMK Electronics Corporation U.S.A., a division of SMK Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics components, automotive information systems and OEM remote controls, announced today that it will showcase its PV-03 Photovoltaic Module Connectors this week at Solar Power International (SPI), to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center, September 14th-17th (booth # 2349).
A tropical paradise on the surface, the coral reefs under the tiny island nation’s azure waves are actually a laboratory unlike anywhere else on the planet. The seemingly placid environment features some truly extreme conditions—an evolutionary crucible that has produced creatures with traits that rival the best of human ingenuity. Sweeney’s job is to understand how they got that way and why.
Wuxi Suntech announced today that the company will showcase two recent, and one upcoming, product lines in California next week at Solar Power International (SPI) 2015. The conference, recognized as one of the leading North American solar events, affords Suntech the opportunity to introduce its upgraded SuperPoly modules, boasting a 100 MW manufacturing capacity, and the high efficiency HyPro line featuring PERC technology, to the burgeoning US solar market. In addition, Suntech's 1,500V high system voltage module, to be launched in October, will be on display at SPI.
SunEdison, Inc. (SUNE), the largest global renewable energy development company, in partnership with BITHENERGY, a leading solar developer, today announced that Columbia, Md. is now offsetting 100 percent of its energy use from renewable sources. Columbia now sources 75 percent of its energy from wind renewable energy credits, and 25 percent from a newly completed two megawatt (MW) DC solar farm in SunEdison and BITHENERGY's Nixon Farm solar project in West Friendship, Md.
Burning all of the world's available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be published in Science Advances shows. The Antarctic ice masses store water equivalent to more than 50 meters of sea-level rise.
Hanwha Q CELLS Co., Ltd. ("Hanwha Q CELLS" or the "Company") one of the world's largest providers of high quality, high efficiency photovoltaic modules and solutions, announced today that it will give insight into the next level of its high efficiency Q.ANTUM technology at this year's Solar Power International (SPI) trade fair in Anaheim, California from September 15-17.
This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download.
Seraphim Solar Manufacturing USA, Inc. (hereafter referred to as "Seraphim USA"), an extension of one of the industry's highest-ranked global integrated providers of photovoltaic (PV) products; announced that its new solar factory in Jackson, Mississippi is scheduled to commence trial operation.
Hanwha Q CELLS USA, an international solar developer and solutions provider, announces the sale of 33 megawatts of utility scale solar in Panama. Hanwha Q CELLS USA is joined by development partners Renventure (local partner), SEMI (Engineering, Procurement and Construction), ASEP (Panama public service agency), ANAM (Panama environmental authority), and EDEMET (transmission company).
Kirigami - a Japanese paper cutting art - has inspired researchers from the University of Michigan to develop solar cells that can track the sun, trapping as much as 36% more energy than stationary cells.
By Beth Ellison
11 Sep 2015