Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 - Kyocera has announced plans to invest in a tax equity partnership for the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects valued at $38 million in New York state, leveraging the 30% federal energy i
Hanau, Germany (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 - The International Photovoltaic Equipment Association (IPVEA), a global trade organization supporting solar and energy storage professionals, has announced a new initiative - IPVEA study on optimizi
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 - A NASA scientist is launching a one-to-two-year pilot project this summer that takes advantage of U.S. high-voltage power transmission lines to measure a phenomenon that has caused widespread power
Golden CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than almost anything researchers have seen
Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - In the quest to make sun power more competitive, researchers are designing ultrathin solar cells that cut material costs. At the same time they're keeping these thin cells efficient by sculpting the
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - Treating cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but researchers have not fully understood why. Now, an atomic-scale examination of the thin-fi
Washington (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Environmentalists Wednesday urged the United States to drop plans to haul India to the WTO to open its solar market, saying the action would hurt the fight against climate change.
Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2014 - Growing agave and other carefully chosen plants amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms not only to collect sunlight for electricity but also to produce crops for biofuels, according to new
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2014 - Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Martina Schmid at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB), has now measured how
Greenbelt, MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2014 - Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., accomplished another first. Using a large overhead crane, they mated two Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories - also ca
Badaiwani Wala, Pakistan (AFP) April 20, 2014 - For years Pakistanis have sweated and cursed through summer power cuts, but now the government plans to harness the sun's ferocious heat to help tackle the country's chronic energy crisis.
Washington (AFP) April 17, 2014 - The White House Thursday announced a series of measures aimed at increasing solar energy production in the United States, particularly by encouraging the installation of solar panels in public spaces.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2014 - It launched in 1978. It was the first satellite to study the constant flow of solar wind streaming toward Earth from a stable orbit point between our planet and the sun known as the Lagrangian 1, or
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 16, 2014 - A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with scientists from University
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 16, 2014 - Using DESY's bright research light sources, scientists have opened a new door to better solar cells, novel superconductors and smaller hard-drives. The research reported in the scientific journal Na
Atlanta HA (SPX) Apr 16, 2014 - One of the great problems in physics is the detection of electromagnetic radiation - that is, light - which lies outside the small range of wavelengths that the human eye can see. Think X-rays, for
