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Dividend Solar expands accreditation program
Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)
Dividend Solar is expanding NABCEP's Company Accreditation Program to improve the quality of solar installation companies nationwide. By offering its network of...
Solar Impulse lands in China after 22-hour flight from Myanmar
Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 landed early Tuesday in China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, as it completed the fifth leg of its landmark circumnavigation of the globe p...
Solar Impulse departs Myanmar for China
Mar 29, 2015 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 took off from Myanmar's second biggest city of Mandalay early Monday and headed for China's Chongqing, the fifth flight of a landmark journey to...
New kind of 'tandem' solar cell developed
Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines two different layers of sunlight-absorbing material in order to...
Can perovskites and silicon team up to boost industrial solar cell efficiencies?
Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)
Silicon solar cells dominate 90 percent of the global photovoltaic market today, yet the record power conversion efficiency of silicon photovoltaics has progres...
Discovery could yield more efficient portable electronics, solar cells
Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)
By figuring out how to precisely order the molecules that make up what scientists call organic glass - the materials at the heart of some electronic displays, l...
Single-Axis market to reach nearly $2 Billion in 2019
Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)
Global single-axis tracker revenues are expected to grow 120 percent, to reach nearly $2 in 2019, according to IHS, the leading global source of critical inform...
Spain's Iberdrola touts green footprint
Mar 23, 2015 (UPI)
Spanish energy company Iberdrola said Monday more than half of its global facilities and nearly all of its Spanish operations were emissions-free last year. The...
Global Solar PV Capacity to Reach Nearly 500 GW in 2019
Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)
Total global solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is forecast to reach 498 gigawatts (GW) in 2019, which is 177 percent higher than 2014, according to IHS (NYSE: IH...
New research holds great promise for advancing sustainable energy
Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)
New research published by Rutgers University chemists has documented significant progress confronting one of the main challenges inhibiting widespread utilizati...
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water
Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)
UNSW Australia scientists have developed a highly efficient oxygen-producing electrode for splitting water that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial...
Solar plane lands in Myanmar on epic round-the-world journey
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 landed in Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay Thursday after completing the fourth leg of its landmark circumnavigation of the globe powered ...
New rooftops in France to go green
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones in France must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a law approved on Thursday. Gree...
Italian Solar Power Generation During Solar Eclipse
Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)
On Friday, March 20, 2015 a solar eclipse will pass over Europe between 8:40AM and 12:50PM CET. The reduction of solar radiation during these hours is expected ...
CEC teams with Morgan Stanley to boost Massachusetts solar power
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
Clean Energy Collective (CEC) and MS Solar Solutions have entered into a strategic development agreement to accelerate the expansion of community-shared solar a...
9 percent of PV Systems in North America will have storage by 2018
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
IHS has announced that 9 percent of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in North America will include attached storage in 2018. Led by commercial systems, IHS expec...
Solar could meet California energy demand 3 to 5 times over
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
In the face of global climate change, increasing the use of renewable energy resources is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world. Further developmen...
A new method for making perovskite solar cells
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
Research led by a Brown University Ph.D. student has revealed a new way to make light-absorbing perovskite films for use in solar cells. The new method involves...
Scientists move closer to '2 for 1 deal' on solar cell efficiency
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
The underlying mechanism behind an enigmatic process called "singlet exciton fission", which could enable the development of significantly more powerful solar c...
Trina Solar to Supply 48 MW of Solar Modules to ACME India
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
Trina Solar has announced it has signed an agreement to supply 48MW of solar modules to ACME Cleantech Solutions. This new agreement brings the total sales of s...
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