Santa Clara CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2014 - Quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) demand in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is forecast to reach the 10 gigawatt (GW) level for the first time, in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2014. According to the la
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2014 - A new guidebook outlining ways for California cities and counties to make permit processing and inspections for home rooftop solar electric systems quicker and more uniform is now available from the
Golden CO (SPX) Dec 17, 2014 - Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have used statistical analyses and detailed case studies to better understand why solar market policies in certain sta
San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 15, 2014 - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is preparing to unveil a new, miniature portable solar observatory for use onboard a commercial, manned suborbital spacecraft. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing
Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 15, 2014 - A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has found that stacking materials that are only one atom thick can create semiconductor junctions that transfer charge efficiently, regar
San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 14, 2014 - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is preparing to unveil a new, miniature portable solar observatory for use onboard a commercial, manned suborbital spacecraft. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2014 - Understanding vast systems in space requires understanding what's happening on widely different scales. Giant events can turn out to have tiny drivers - take, for example, what rocked near-Earth spa
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2014 - Windows allow brilliant natural light to stream into homes and buildings. Along with light comes heat that, in warm weather, we often counter with energy-consuming air conditioning. Now scient
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2014 - Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a new and more efficient way to trap light, using a phenomenon called bound states in the continuum (BIC) that was first propos
Okayama, Japan (SPX) Dec 11, 2014 - GE unit GE Energy Financial Services is continuing its expansion into the Japanese renewable energy power market, completing its second solar project financing transaction with Pacifico Energy, a To
Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 11, 2014 - First Solar and Clean Energy Collective (CEC) have announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to develop and market community solar offerings to residential customers and businesses dir
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2014 - As solar panels become less expensive and capable of generating more power, solar energy is becoming a more commercially viable alternative source of electricity. However, the photovoltaic cells now
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 09, 2014 - UNSW Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The record efficiency was achieved in outdoo
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 09, 2014 - Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That's Illan Kramer's (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flex
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2014 - An enormous spectrum of light streams from the sun. We're most familiar with the conventional visible white light we see with our eyes from Earth, but that's just a fraction of what our closest star
Julich, Germany (SPX) Dec 09, 2014 - How can light which has been captured in a solar cell be examined in experiments? Julich scientists have succeeded in looking directly at light propagation within a solar cell by using a trick. The
