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Tonga gets first solar power plant
Nuku'Alofa, Tonga (UPI) Jul 26, 2012 - The island country of Tonga in the South Pacific has commissioned its first solar farm.
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Solar3D Successfully Fabricates Initial Prototype
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 - Solar3D has announced the successful fabrication of an initial prototype of its 3D solar cell using commercially available equipment from Panasonic. The company's recently developed low cost fabrica
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New Technologies Will Cut Cost of PV Metallization by up to 50 percent
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 - Metallization of solar cells - laying down metal electrodes to collect the electricity generated by the sunlight - is costly, largely because of the high and rising cost of the silver that's typical
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IKEA Plugs-in New Solar Energy System at Pittsburgh-Area Store
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 - IKEA has officially plugged-in the new solar energy system installed at its Pittsburgh-area store in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. The 86,800-square-foot PV array consists of a 694-kW system, bui
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Global Solar Energy Brings Powerful Building Integrated Solar to Japan’s Growing Renewable Energy Market
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 - Global Solar Energy has announced an expansion into Japan's growing solar market, establishing local partnerships and offering a new design of its PowerFLEX BIPV system that has been adapted specifi
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Community Energy Under Construction on Largest Solar Project in Pennsylvania
Radnor PA (SPX) Jul 26, 2012 - Community Energy Solar (Community Energy) has announced that it has closed financing and commenced construction of its six megawatt (dc) Keystone Solar Project in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Exe
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Chinese solar makers warn of ‘trade war’ with EU
Beijing (AFP) July 26, 2012 - Four leading solar cell manufacturers in China on Thursday warned a possible EU anti-dumping investigation could trigger a trade war and urged Beijing to step in to protect their interests.
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UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
Los Angeles (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 - UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to
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NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 - A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of the images c
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DuPont Addresses Patent Protection at Solarbuzz China Conference
Shanghai, China (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 - DuPont Electronics and Communications Managing Director for Greater China, Walt Cheng, was a featured speaker at the Solarbuzz China Photovoltaics (PV) Conference in Shanghai. In addressing the impo
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Aurora Australis over Concordia station 18 July
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 25, 2012 - A stunning image showing Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 July 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored
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A Taste of Solar Maximum
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 25, 2012 - Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auro
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Solar Module Price Erosion Slows in the Second Half of 2012 as Demand Rises
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2012 - In a modicum of good news for the battered solar industry, price declines for photovoltaic modules are expected to moderate slightly in the second half of 2012 on the strength of renewed demand, acc
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Next Phase in SolarStrong Project for Sustainable Electricity Production
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2012 - Lend Lease and SolarCity have announced the next project within SolarStrong, SolarCity's ambitious plan to provide solar electricity for up to 120,000 U.S. military homes. The two companies are coll
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DECCs 2020 solar ambition achievable with major contribution from solar parks
London, UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2012 - Solarcentury and Lightsource Renewable Energy have expressed concern about the decision to delay the outcome of the ROC banding review. They have called on the Department for Energy and Climate Chan
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Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 23, 2012 - Astronomers have released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel imag