Belmont CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - SunEdison and MIC Solar Energy Holdings have announced the completion of a 16.4 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant located outside Tucson, Arizona on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - Student teams from six Los Angeles-area high schools proved on Feb. 21 that amazing things can happen when imagination goes head to head with an engineering problem, a limited budget and not enough
Unterhaching, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - The race to achieve highest efficiency had engineers turning to innovative topologies and new components such as SiC to take the lead. In parallel, after years of dormancy, old but very innovative i
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that
Shanghai, China (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - JA Solar Holdings has announced that its multi-crystalline silicon (multi-Si) solar cells have surpassed 19% conversion efficiency. This latest improvement in efficiency, achieved using adva
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - Midsummer has developed a unique process to recover leftover rare metals such as indium and gallium when manufacturing thin film CIGS solar cells. The unique process will extensively reduce thin fil
New York (AFP) Feb 23, 2014 - On a rooftop in the Bronx far from the skyscrapers of Manhattan, 4,760 panels soak up the winter rays. Welcome to the solar power boom in New York state.
Atlanta (SPX) Feb 20, 2014 - Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 20, 2014 - In a recent early online edition of Nature Chemistry, ASU scientists, along with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory, have reported advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf.
Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2014 - Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues recently developed detailed plans to transform the energy infrastructure of New York, California and Washington states from fossil fuels to 100 pe
Canberra, Australia (TCM) Feb 18, 2014 - The Abbott government has announced a review of Australia's renewable energy target, led by business leader Dick Warburton, which could see the scheme weakened or even scrapped. The review, du
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2014 - New insights into one of the molecular mechanisms behind light harvesting, the process that enables photosynthetic organisms to thrive, even as weather conditions change from full sunlight to deep c
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - SolarReserve has announced that construction of the 110 megawatt (MW) Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project located near Tonopah, Nevada, marked another major milestone by entering the plant commissio
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - Photovoltaic power systems can be found at homes, businesses and other universities, but the new photovoltaic systems at New Mexico State University's Southwest Technology Development Institute are
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - Kyocera has announced that its solar modules installed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have been independently tested and their performance levels verified, showing an exc
Shanghai, China (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it has supplied solar PV modules to CSEM-uae (CSEM), an independent, non-profit Swiss-UAE joint venture company for applied research. The modules will be used
