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The Solar Daily Editorial Team produces Solar Daily's coverage of solar energy and the renewable transition. We report on photovoltaics, energy storage, project development, markets and policy, and the research advancing the next generation of solar technology. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Solar Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

World First for Stand-Alone, Solar-Powered Lighting Column

Oss, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kaal Masten is presenting the Spirit: the world's first solar-powered lighting column that does not use mains power and is available in a complete series (up to 18 metres). As a result, we now have

Oct 15, 2013

Researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis

Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to develop an economical means of harnessing artificial photosynthesis by narrowing the voltage gap between the tw

Oct 15, 2013

UMD Robotic Bird Harvests Solar Energy

College Park MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Small robotic birds are showing lots of promise for tasks such as monitoring the environment and conducting surveillance. But one current drawback they have is the amount of time they are able to st

Oct 15, 2013

Kyocera Solar Helps Power Midway Airport Rental Car Facility

Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kyocera Solar has announced that 25 kilowatts (kW) of Kyocera photovoltaic modules now help power Chicago's Midway Airport's new environmentally friendly consolidated rental car facility. Installed

Oct 15, 2013

ET Solar Provides Solar Panels for Two Utility Projects in Chile

San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - ET Solar Group has announced that it has provided 4.8MW of solar PV panels for two utility scaled projects in Chile. Located in Combarbala, the IV Region, the projects, namely PSF Pama and PSF Lomas

Oct 15, 2013

Trina Solar supplies 5MW to ESPE for ground-mounted project in Romania

London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Trina Solar has announced that it has recently supplied 5MW to ESPE, a leading Italian company that designs and installs reliable green energy systems, for a ground-mounted project in Romania.

Oct 14, 2013

SolarBOS announces official release of Circuit Breaker Solutions

Livermore CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - SolarBOS is pleased to officially announce a new line of Circuit Breaker Recombiners and Enclosures. The new Circuit Breaker product line serves as an additional disconnecting option for custo

Oct 14, 2013

NREL Releases New Roadmap to Reducing Solar PV Soft Costs by 2020

Golden CO (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a new report, Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photo

Oct 14, 2013

Minimum price on solar to protect South Australian consumers

Canberra, Australai (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - A recommendation to set a minimum price for the solar energy generated by South Australians was good news overall for households and small businesses, the Clean Energy Council said Friday. Cle

Oct 14, 2013

KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules for Kizuna Solar Park

Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Kyocera has announced that it has supplied 3.6 megawatts (MW) of multicrystalline silicon solar modules for the Okumatsushima Kizuna Solar Park in Higashi-Matsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Oct 14, 2013

KYOCERA Solar Gives Small Business an Edge with Energy Savings

Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2013 - Kyocera Solar has announced that 117kW of Kyocera photovoltaic (PV) modules are installed on the roof at Pizza Port's new Carlsbad, CA restaurant, corporate office, and beer production, canning and

Oct 14, 2013

University of Calgary solar teams on the world stage

Calgary, Canada (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Two high-profile international student competitions are now underway, with the University of Calgary being represented at both: the Solar Decathlon competition in Irvine, Calif., and the World Solar

Oct 11, 2013

Major leap towards graphene for solar cells

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Graphene has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This makes it a perfect candidate material for transparent contact layers for use in solar cells

Oct 11, 2013

Rocketdyne Tests High Concentrated PV System

Sacramento CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - Aerojet Rocketdyne is successfully demonstrating a commercial-scale High Concentrated Photovoltaic (HCPV) pilot system designed to generate more solar energy at less cost, in a smaller amount of spa

Oct 11, 2013

Dutch team win Australian solar car race

Adelaide, Australia (AFP) Oct 10, 2013 - Dutch team Nuon on Thursday crossed the finish line in an epic 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across the Australian outback ahead of Japan's Tokai University, avenging their 2011 defeat.

Oct 10, 2013

DEK Solar Helps Break New Barriers for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Dorset, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2013 - Building on earlier work conducted in conjunction with the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), DEK Solar has further optimized its Dual Print stencils and screens to push past previo

Oct 9, 2013