
NASA: Solar flare was first of most intense class observed this year
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) May 13, 2013 - NASA says a solar flare emitted by the sun late Sunday was an X-class event - the most intense flares - and the first such X flare of the year.
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Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) May 13, 2013 - NASA says a solar flare emitted by the sun late Sunday was an X-class event - the most intense flares - and the first such X flare of the year.
May 13, 2013

Shanghai, China (SPX) May 13, 2013 - DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DuPont) will highlight growth, innovation and collaboration in the solar industry at SNEC 2013, the largest global solar power exposition at the Shanghai New Internati
May 13, 2013

Washington (UPI) May 12, 2013 - An updraft of solar winds ripped a hole in the sun's outer atmosphere with remarkable geometric precision, creating a nearly perfect square.
May 12, 2013

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) May 12, 2013 - There are more than 6 million people worldwide who get their paychecks from jobs tied to the renewable energy sector, an Emirati study finds.
May 12, 2013

Riverside CA (SPX) May 10, 2013 - Western Municipal Water District's newly commissioned 916-kilowatt SunPower solar power system is soaking up the sun, delivering an expected savings of up to $4.6 million over the next two decades.
May 10, 2013

Mililani HI (SPX) May 10, 2013 - Construction has started on the first phase of a massive solar project by Forest City Military Communities and SolarCity to provide solar electricity to 6,500 military family residences at Ohana Mil
May 10, 2013

Bedminster NJ (SPX) May 10, 2013 - KDC Solar LLC, headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey, through its wholly owned subsidiary, KDC Solar NJMG, has commenced commercial operations at North Jersey Media Group's (NJMG) printing facilit
May 10, 2013

Bluffton IN (SPX) May 10, 2013 - Franklin Electric announces the release of SubDrive SolarPAK, a complete, one-box, system solution that provides the pump components needed to build a solar powered water well system. Designed
May 10, 2013

Golden CO (SPX) May 09, 2013 - Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power (CSP) plants can add to an electric
May 9, 2013

Beijing (AFP) May 9, 2013 - Beijing urged the European Union on Thursday to avoid engaging in protectionism, after Brussels proposed an anti-dumping levy on imports of Chinese solar panels.
May 9, 2013

Phoenix (UPI) May 9, 2013 - The Agua Caliente Solar Project, which was completed last week, is now operational and poised to start churning out power. Once it does, it will officially be the largest working solar panel array in the world.
May 9, 2013

Ulsan, Korea (SPX) May 09, 2013 - A polymer solar cell is a type of thin film solar cells made with polymers that produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect. Most current commercial solar cells are made from a high
May 9, 2013

New Delhi, India (SPX) May 08, 2013 - PROINSO - a leading retailer of PV solar materials - has supplied 5MW to the first PV solar farm on the grid on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory in India. The delivery to the farm
May 8, 2013

Hamburg, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2013 - Since its initial release in spring 2010, GL Garrad Hassan's Online Data Management (ODM) service has continued to grow and is currently used by clients in 34 countries worldwide with many hundreds
May 8, 2013

Brussels (AFP) May 08, 2013 - The European Commission proposed Wednesday what an EU source said was an urgently needed anti-dumping levy on imports of Chinese solar panels, allegedly unfairly subsidised by a government that has retaliated in kind to similar moves.
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Richmond, Va. (UPI) May 7, 2013 - U.S. energy provider Dominion said Wednesday it added solar power developments in Tennessee that will bring its total solar power portfolio to 212 megawatts.
May 7, 2013