Shanghai, China (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 - JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it has opened a solar module factory in Cape Town, South Africa. Located in 2 Evans Avenue, Epping Industrial 1, Cape Town, the factory covers an area of
Baoding, China (SPX) Aug 12, 2014 - Yingli Green Energy has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Spain has signed a 31.6 MW supply agreement with Gestamp Solar, a leading Spanish developer and operator of ut
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 12, 2014 - Solar power costs have fallen dramatically over the last five years, thanks to lower module prices, lower balance of system costs, and increased competition at the development and EPC level. Financi
Woodland Hills, Calif. (UPI) Aug 12, 2014 - Northrop Grumman's space inertial reference system is to be used on NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission to examine the atmosphere of the Sun.
Beijing (SPX) Aug 12, 2014 - Hanergy and China New Energy Chamber of Commerce have issued the Global Renewable Energy Report 2014. The report found that China became the world's biggest market for solar power in 2013, with the
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2014 - Researchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the sun. Published in Science, the team led by Dr Maria Lugaro and Professor Alexander Heger, from Monash University, have investigated th
Thalheim, Germany (SPX) Aug 11, 2014 - Hanwha Q CELLS has completed the construction of an additional 204 MW production line for high performance solar cells in its Malaysian manufacturing facility. In addition, Europe's largest photovol
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 07, 2014 - The world's 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, equivalent to 20 percen
Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 07, 2014 - DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont) has added two new products to its leading lineup of frontside silver metallization pastes for crystalline silicon solar cells. DuPont Solamet PV18H and PV18J p
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 06, 2014 - Extremely thin, semi-transparent, flexible solar cells could soon become reality. At the Vienna University of Technology, Thomas Mueller, Marco Furchi and Andreas Pospischil have managed to create a
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2014 - Since Alexandre Edmond Becquerel first discovered the photovoltaic effect in 1839, humankind has sought to further understand and harness the power of sunlight for its own purposes. In a new r
London, UK (SPX) Aug 05, 2014 - In this month's issue of Physics World, Ashley Dale from the University of Bristol warns of the catastrophic and long-lasting impacts of solar super-storms and the dangers we face if the threa
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2014 - Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations of the small-scale ext
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2014 - Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move across them. The work might enable new kinds of biomedical o
Manila (UPI) Aug 4, 2014 - The Asian Development Bank said Monday it was taking a commercial investment perspective toward developing a low-carbon Asian economy.
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - Several years ago, NASA selected the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of Johns Hopkins University to develop a most ambitious mission to the Sun. This was dubbed the Solar Probe Plus mission, intend
