Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2013 - In support of its mission to build stronger relationships between scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators in Massachusetts and Switzerland, swissnex Boston is welcoming the world's largest solar-po
Berlin (AFP) June 18, 2013 - German solar panel manufacturer Solarworld announced Tuesday a capital injection by Qatar, a move which will save the company from bankruptcy as the German sector struggles against Asian competition.
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2013 - Maxwell Technologies and Soitec have announced that they will collaborate on a California Energy Commission-funded, two-phase program to demonstrate the cost and efficiency benefits of combining an
Oxford, UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2013 - A consortium of leading energy companies is to develop safe, lightweight and robust solar energy storage systems for the military around the world and will also be adapted for the commercial and res
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jun 18, 2013 - Kyocera has announced that it has donated solar power generating systems to four secondary schools in Tanzania and three primary schools in Uganda. Donation ceremonies were held at the schools in Ki
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2013 - China said Tuesday it would this week hold talks with the European Union in a bid to resolve a dispute over solar panels and other business issues, as tensions between the two risk escalating into a trade war.
Lindau, Germany (SPX) Jun 14, 2013 - The balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise has lifted off - and will now begin its unique journey to the active Sun. The balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise has lifted off successfully from Esr
Washington (AFP) June 14, 2013 - Pilot Andre Borschberg oversaw the construction of a solar plane that can fly through the night, but these days the entrepreneur is more concerned with the limits of man than of technology.
Fustinana, Spain (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - The European Union has launched a new research project called OPTIMUS, part of the EUREKA Technology Cooperation Program, which over the next three years will focus on the research and development o
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - Goal Zero has announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT). IQT is a non-profit, strategic investor that identifies, adapts, and delivers innovative tech
London, UK (SPX) Jun 13, 2013 - European photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to fall by more than 6 gigawatts (GW) in 2013, with 1.3 GW of this decline attributed to incoming EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese modules acco
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2013 - With the daily mean concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide having reached 400 parts-per-million for the first time in human history, the need for carbon-neutral alternatives to fossil fuel ene
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2013 - On December 15-16, 2011, a Sun-grazing comet, designated Lovejoy (C/2011 W3), passed deep within the hot solar atmosphere - the corona - effectively probing a region that could never be visited by s
Washington DC (RIA Novosti) Jun 12, 2013 - Severe space weather can knock out satellite communications and GPS systems, expose space tourists and astronauts to dangerous levels of radiation, and even cause massive blackouts on Earth that c
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 12, 2013 - How much solar energy reaches a power plant? Is the Sun often obscured by dust or other atmospheric particles? Power station operators need a great deal of meteorological data before deciding on the
Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2013 - The sun spouted another giant solar flare today, its third in two days. And yet again, one of NASA's many satellites was there to capture images.
