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Investing in the Future of Solar Energy Technology

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest up to $12 million in total funding—$10 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—in four companies to support the development of early stage solar energy technologies and help them advance to full commercial scale. The goal of this effort is to help further expand a clean [...]

The First Volume High Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) Plant in the US - Expands

Seal Beach, CA – Amonix Inc., the leading manufacturer of utility scale high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems, today announces the expansion of its Seal Beach manufacturing capacity. The announcement coincides with an end-of-October celebration of the company’s 20 years of developing, manufacturing and deploying its technology.

Amonix now has 30MW of annual manufacturing capacity. The automated [...]

Sweden’s Largest Ground Based PV Solar System has 135 Joint Owners

The County Governor officially opened Sala-Heby’s new PV system

The 5th of October 2009 Sweden’s largest ground based PV system was officially opened by The County Governor Ingemar Skogö. The plant is also unique as it today has 135 joint owners, www.solelisalaheby.se

Largest Solar Energy Plant with 90,000 Solar Panels is Ready to Go.

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Florida Power & Light Company announced today that it expects the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., to begin delivering electricity to customers later this month – ahead of schedule.

The facility will overtake Nevada’s Nellis Solar Power Plant for the title of largest solar photovoltaic solar facility in [...]

Petra Solar Starts Shipping In Largest Solar Electric Project Under Construction In The World

This New Jersey company has delivered its first shipment on an order for 200,000 solar PV systems. Metallic blue solar photovoltaic modules embedded with sophisticated power management and communications systems began rolling out of Petra Solar’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in South Plainfield, NJ this month in the largest solar electric project under construction in the [...]

Nanotechnology provides advances in eyeglasses, solar energy

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit “nanostructure films” on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better.

Ultimately, the technique may provide a way to make solar cells more efficiently produce energy.

The films reduce the reflectance of [...]

Suntechs Claim for World Record Energy Conversion Efficiency Independantly Validated at 15.6%

 Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., a world leader in the manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, recently announced that it has achieved a new world record conversion efficiency of 15.6% on a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module. This conversion efficiency surpasses the previous record of 15.5% (aperture area only) set by Sandia National Labs 15 years ago. [...]

BioSolar Files Patent for BioBacksheet™-A Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar Module Component

BioSolar, Inc., developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar modules, announced recently that the company has recently filed a patent application to protect the innovations behind its proprietary BioBacksheetTM-A, a bio-based backsheet featuring an absolute moisture barrier for the thin-film solar cell [...]

Nanowires May Boost Light Absorbtion in Solar panels by a Factor of 10

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

In 1907 Mie realized that tiny metal particles in [...]