U.S. Bancorp Plans to Invest in Solar, Wind Projects
U.S. Bancorp, the nation´s fifth-largest commercial bank, plans to invest hundreds of millions this year in U.S. renewable energy projects, where the bank sees profit, despite political fallout following the Solyndra...
Duties on China solar would kill jobs, report says
A U.S. solar industry group fighting a rival coalition´s request for steep import duties on Chinese-made solar cells and modules warned in a report on Monday that more than 60,000 U.S. jobs could be lost if such duties were...
A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves. In a few years, Mershin says it’ll be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals, paint the...
VTA Installs Solar Power Systems at Its Three Bus Yards
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in partnership with SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and Wells Fargo, installed solar parking canopy systems, totaling 2.1 megawatts (MW), at its three bus...
Siemens to Implement U.S. Army´s Largest Solar Photovoltaic System at White Sand
Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center has awarded a $16.8 million task order to implement energy-conserving upgrades, including a 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power generating...
Flexible and in three languages: Vario releases its solar calculator for Android in English, German and Italian
The solar yield calculator app of Vario green energy is now available for Android smartphones. An iPhone version of it already exists. House and roof owners can calculate with the free app on their mobile phone, which yield a photovoltaic power...
Specialist distributor Donauer Solartechnik is opening a branch in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on 1 February. The solar company from Gilching near Munich is a partner in the joint venture with Saleh Ahmed Al Badi, who will direct the Donauer branch...
Donauer Solartechnik eröffnet Niederlassung im Oman
Der Fachgroßhändler Donauer Solartechnik eröffnet am 01. Februar eine Niederlassung in Omans Hauptstadt Maskat. An dem Joint Venture mit Saleh Ahmed Al Badi ist die Solarfirma aus Gilching bei München mehrheitlich beteiligt. Al...
PROINSO includes SCHOTT Solar modules in its catalogue
PROINSO, a company that supplies modules, inverters, trackers and fixed structures for ground- or roof-mounted PV systems, has added to its catalogue SCHOTT Solar PV solar modules, which will be supplied by all ten PROINSO branches around the world...
PROINSO incorpora aos seu catálogo os módulos da SCHOTT Solar
A PROINSO –empresa especializada na distribuição de módulos, inversores, seguidores e estruturas fixas para instalações solares fotovoltaicas tanto de solo como sobre telhado-, incorporou ao seu catálogo os módulos fotovoltaicos da SCHOTT Solar que...
PROINSO incorpore dans son catalogue les modules SCHOTT Solar
PROINSO –entreprise spécialisée dans la distribution de modules, d´onduleurs, de trackers et de structures fixes pour installations solaires photovoltaïques aussi bien au sol que sur toiture-, a incorporé dans son...
How to make a glass bowl out of sand and sunlight, in the middle of the Sahara
This gorgeous, mysterious video is a glimpse of one possible Earth future. Imagine that we abandon fossil fuels for solar, but not before our once-green world grows sprawling new deserts.
First Solar Outlook Brightens With New Arizona Plant
First Solar recently announced plans to build a solar module factory in Mesa, Ariz. The factory will boost First Solar’s annual production capacity by more than 250 MW when completed around the third quarter of 2012.
Ascent Solar Enters into a Joint Development Agreement with GlobalWatt, Inc.
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has partnered with GlobalWatt, Inc., a specialty solar applications company,
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