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Oil-rich Alberta adding more solar components

Oct 26, 2017 (UPI)

More than a dozen public buildings in central and northern Alberta have installed solar photovoltaic systems since last year, removing more than 13,000 tons of ...

ABC Solar catches a CAB to land a PTO from SCE

Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)

Bartz dropped everything to advocate for this client. And in the process of Advocating SCE slowed, stopped, denied and created circular arguments and forms agai...

German utility sees potential in rooftop solar

Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)

German utility E.ON said it was teaming up with wholesale and food retailer METRO Deutschland on a rooftop solar initiative. The utility company said it would i...

Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future'

Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)

Led by engineering researchers at Michigan State University, the authors argue that widespread use of such highly transparent solar applications, together with ...

How solar peaker plants could replace gas peakers

Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)

Under a technology 2 market R and D contract with the DOE, CEO Hank Price of Solar Dynamics did the math on operating a tower CSP project in Arizona or Californ...

Clean Energy Collective Starts Construction on SCE and G Community Solar Facilities

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

Community solar sites in Jasper and Orangeburg counties began construction activities this month. A third site will be developed in Hampton County, next year. C...

SCE monopoly abuse of power prompts the necessity of off-grid inventions

Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)

Bartz talk in Wuxi at the Smart Energy 2017 Expo in early November is a must-see speech by an 18-year solar industry leader. Featured on Day 2 of the 1,000-exhi...

Scientists create most powerful micro-scale bio-solar cell yet

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

A microfluidic lab-on-a-chip system that generates its own power is essential for stand-alone, independent, self-sustainable point-of-care diagnostic devices to...

Think laterally to sidestep production problems

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Two-dimensional semiconductor monolayers, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides like WSe2 and MoS2, have unique electrical and optical propertie...

Rooftop solar carving out a niche in China

Oct 16, 2017 (UPI)

ReneSola, which became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2009, said it generated 29 million kilowatt hours of solar-powered electricity in the third quar...

Sandia scientists find the optimal way to mop up surplus solar flux on CSP towers

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

One use for additional direct electric power from PV would be to supply onsite energy needs. So called "parasitic" needs include powering pumps and the electron...

Futuristic solar-powered Dutch family car hailed 'the future'

Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)

The innovative bi-annual contest, first run in 1987, began in Darwin a week ago with 41 vehicles setting off on a 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) trip through the ...

Flying Dutch win world solar car race in Australia

Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)

The World Solar Challenge, first run in 1987 and last held in 2015, began in the northern city of Darwin on Sunday morning, with 41 competing cars heading to th...

Solar panels shine in darkest Amazon, the 'last frontier'

Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)

Aurelio Souza is working to install solar panels in villages along the remote Purus and Ituxi rivers in the western Amazonas state. "The Amazon is the last big ...

Total moves deeper into solar energy market

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

After a call for tenders, Total's solar power subsidiary said it was working through a partnership with agricultural services company Groupe Carré on 70 projec...

Scientists from MSU proposed a way of increasing the efficiency of solar batteries

Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)

Organic-inorganic perovskites are a new class of photoactive (i.e. reacting to light) materials. They were named after the mineral called perovskite (CaTiO3, ca...

Epic world solar car race begins in Australia

Oct 08, 2017 (AFP)

The World Solar Challenge, first run in 1987 and last held in 2015, began in a high-tech, futuristic flurry from Darwin's State Square. Dutch team Nuon is aimin...

Phenometrics Introduces New Solar Spectrum Light

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

The new light will benefit scientists who are specifically concerned with simulating outdoor growing conditions. Since the FSL-200 more closely matches the spec...

Obama makes impassioned plea for clean energy in Argentina

Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)

Obama told an audience of government ministers, business leaders and young environmental activists they were part of a generation with the scientific means and ...

Xcel Energy community solar garden program is the largest in the country

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

"This is a significant moment for the solar industry and we want to recognize all the partners who played a role in making Solar*Rewards Community the largest c...