Global Solar intros flexible photovoltaic modules for rooftop installation
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 | Eco Factor: Flexible solar modules require no racks. Installing racking systems to hold heavy polycrystalline silicon panels on a rooftop might just become obsolete with Global Solar ’s PowerFlex BIPV modules. The flexible solar modules can be glued ... |
Off-the-Shelf Dyes Increase Solar Panel Absorption
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 | The hippies were the first to push solar energy en masse in the 70’s, so it’s a wonder we haven’t thought of this before — it turns out the same stuff used to tie-dye t-shirts can increase the efficiency of solar panels. A new paper released in the J ... |
Wall St. firm behind slow solar on federal lands?
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| Five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to solar power developers, vast tracts still sit idle. Solar power - Energy - Business - Renewable - Solar ... |
CEC Approves First Utility Solar Project in 20 Years
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 | After years of delay, things are finally heating up for large-scale solar thermal power plants in California's remote deserts. In the last month, a California Energy Commission (CEC) siting committee has recommended at least five solar plants for ap ... |
Standard Solar Ranks in Top 100 of the 2010 Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Company in America List
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 | Standard Solar, Inc., a premier full-service developer, integrator and installer of solar electric systems for commercial, government and residential customers, today announced that the company was named to the prestigious Inc. magazine Top 500 Fast ... |
Urban Wheels multi-purpose personal transporter runs on solar energy
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 | Eco Factor: Solar-powered personal ride-on vehicle. Recognizing the true potential of solar energy, auto designer Siqi Liu has conceptualized a multi-purpose vehicle called the “Urban Wheels”. The all-electric vehicle can be used for gardening, shop ... |
NJ Business Park Proposes 6.5-MW Solar Power System
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 | The Stafford Park redevelopment project in N.J. plans to install 1,026 solar panels on the surface of a capped landfill that will produce up to 70 percent of the power needed to operate the business park when it’s fully built out, according to the W ... |
solar panel sizing chart
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Zigzag solar roofing mixes green design with high style
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 | Eco Factor : Solar roofing at James Leal Center helps reduce energy consumption. James Leal centre in Redbridge, UK by English architect Sarah Wigglesworth is a low energy sustainable structure built inventively using readily available material. The ... |
AP IMPACT: Feds fail to use land for solar power (AP)
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 | AP - Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. ... |
New Stick-on Solar Panels Make Installations a Snap
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 | Today Global Solar unveiled a new type of flexible solar module that builders can stick directly on the roof, rather than constructing racks to hold heavy glass-covered cells. The modules won’t cost less than traditional arrays, at least initially, b ... |
Recovery Act Propels 3 GW of Solar Projects to Front in California
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 | In a last-minute race to the finish-line, the CEC has approved a staggering 2,800 MW (or 3 GW) of solar projects this month in California. Among them are Tessera Solar ’s 709 MW Imperial Valley Solar project in Imperial County (scaled down from 750 ... |
Invention boosts solar water heating
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| Willis Renewable Energy Systems, Belfast won a 2010 Ashden Award. The Solasyphon is a plumbing innovation that speeds up and simplifies the retro-fitting of solar water heating in existing homes, saving the cost of buying a new water tank. 2,500 have ... |
Mitsubishi Electric PV modules chosen for landmark solar project at Butte College
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| Using solar energy, Butte College in Oroville, Calif., plans to be one of the first colleges in the U.S. to produce more energy than it consumes. While the college has been using solar energy for three years, the board of trustees approved its Phase ... |
Solar Bubble: Are the Risks of Leasing Understood by the Consumer?
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 | By Elena Potylitsine The biggest deterrent for retail consumers to install solar panels on their rooftops is the upfront cost, which may vary depending on the country and state incentives. The cost of repair is on the owner of the panels (most panel ... |
Solar Powered LED Flower Sculpture Lights up the Night
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 | Looking to add some solar-powered flare to your boring backyard? This gigantic energy-generating flower sculpture by id&@le concepts may be just the ticket. Dubbed the Gul Two, the brightly-hued blossom is outfitted with an array of six 10 x 5 cm sol ... |
SunPower Gets US Gov't Contracts
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 | SunPower won several US Government contracts to install solar products for numerous agencies " ... Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), the General Services Administration (GSA), the Navy and the Air Force. ... " These will ... |
The Solar Power Optimization Boom
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 | The era of the "smart" solar panel is here. As more companies develop new power optimization and data tracking technologies for solar systems, the market has exploded. ... |
Global Solar rolls out stick-on solar panels
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| Flexible thin-film solar modules are designed to be glued to flat commercial rooftops or integrated directly into roofing membrane materials. ... |
Small Businesses Add Solar to Save Money
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 | Small businesses across the nation are installing solar power systems as a way to offset higher electricity costs and make a little profit on excess energy produced. As an example, L. Liberato Steel Fabricating in Pennsylvania has installed a 602-pa ... |
Coast Guard Implementing Net Zero Housing
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 | The U.S. Coast Guard has set a goal of a net zero carbon footprint for housing at their Southwest Harbor Base in Maine. The base is using solar panels, solar hot water heaters and now a wind turbine for their energy needs. Efficiency-boosting retr ... |
Musician begins tour accompanied by recycled, solar powered bicycle trailer
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 | Eco-Factor : Solar powered electric assist bicycle trailer takes a musician on tour. With Kristin Rule’s new album release round the corner, the cellist who creates music with an environmental edge has planned a music tour with that is equally eco f ... |
Solar needs a new Metric
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www.fool.com | discovered: | published:
| I just read a very interesting article from Motley Fool on the oversupply of solar in the marketplace that is predicted in 2011. The article went on to try to compare the competitive position of the thin-film mfg and the crystalline mfg based on $/W ... |
