Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - SunEdison has signed an agreement with Petrobras to build one of the largest solar photovoltaic power plants in Brazil. The plant will be located in Alto do Rodrigues, Rio Grande do Norte. Once comp
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - TWO themes dominate discussion on Japan's energy policy two years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Mainstream media continue to emphasise that the catastrophe was basicall
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - A coalition of public health leaders and solar energy companies has formed CAUSE (Californians Against Utilities Stopping solar Energy) to combat monopoly utility efforts to kill rooftop solar. CAUS
London, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - Energized by a surge of shipments in Asia, the global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market in 2012 bucked weak worldwide solar industry conditions to expand by 5 percent and break the $7 billion level
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queiss
Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft to Vandenberg A
Englewood CO (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - Energized by a surge of shipments in Asia, the global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market in 2012 bucked weak worldwide solar industry conditions to expand by 5 percent and break the $7 billion level
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2013 - Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft to Vandenberg A
Golden CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2013 - It may be possible soon to charge cell phones, change the tint on windows, or power small toys with peel-and-stick versions of solar cells, thanks to a partnership between Stanford University and th
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2013 - As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing b
Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - Yingli from China became the largest global supplier of photovoltaic (PV) modules in 2012 based on annual merchant shipments, while previous leader and besieged fellow Chinese producer Suntech Power
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - The M6.5 flare on the morning of April 11, 2013, was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles in
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - For the first time, solar energy accounted for all new utility electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. grid last month, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) Mar
Red Bank NJ (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - Natcore Technology has made major strides in advancing its black silicon solar cells to commercial levels of efficiency and, as part of its development process, has discovered that its technology co
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - Envision Solar International (EVSI) is pleased to announce the successful installation of a second Solar Tree array for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2013 - The University of Colorado Boulder will receive roughly $36 million from NASA to build and operate a space instrument for a mission led by the University of Central Florida that will study Earth's u
