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• Buildings to Have an Easier Solar Way, Courtesy Sulfurcell

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 477
  German manufacturer Sulfurcell has cladding modules with integrated solar cells. These modules consist of a hardened, frameless glass followed by an Indium based semiconductor layer connected to a solar module. Sulfurcell claims that the use of Indium allows the semiconductor layer to be 100 times thinner than ...
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• Saltworks’ New Desalination Technology Uses 70% Less Energy

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 137
  Saltworks Technologies reported that they can produce 1 cubic meter of fresh water using just 1kWh compared to 3.7kWh per cubic meter achievable using reverse osmosis.
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• PGE Sees Solar Feed In Tariff Coming To California – A Boon For Solar – And Favors Internet Based Smart Grids

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 135
  In October, the California Legislature passed an amended bill requiring a feed-in tariff for residential and commercial customers hoping to sell solar and other renewable power to utilities. Buying solar from rofftop installations stresses the electrci grid and adds costs The tariff is scheduled to go into effect ...
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• German solar developer goes dry in Nevada

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 416
  Photo: Solar Millennium Water is emerging as a make-or-break issue for solar developers hoping to build massive megawatt solar power plants in the desert Southwest. On Monday, Solar Millennium announced it would rather switch to dry-cooling its proposed 500-megawatt solar farm in the Nevada desert rather than fight ...
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• 2030: The Year Solar Energy Will Be Beamed Down From Space With Lasers!

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 648
  Since the 1960s, space enthusiasts and international space agencies have had one dream: to collect solar power and use it on earth. What seemed utopic more than 40 years ago is about to become reality: the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA especially is hell-bent on harvesting solar energy... This is just a ...
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• Solar Developer Abandons Water Plans

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 734
  In the face of growing concerns over water use by solar power plants in the West, a German Solar developer, Solar Millennium, has decided to use a dry cooling method instead.
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• Chinas Suntech To Open Its First U.S. Plant In Arizona

  
  China Sourcing News — Authority: 123
  China-based solar energy company, Suntech Power Holdings, has announced at the U.S.-China Green Tech Summit that its first U.S. manufacturing plant would be located in the Greater Phoenix, Arizona area. The plant, which will have an initial production capacity of 30 megawatts and is expected to begin production in the ...
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• Dow Solar Shingle a Best Invention of 2009, Says Time

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 476
  Imagine that adding energy-saving solar panels to your home was as simple as adding shingles, and that they integrated with the standard asphalt shingles youre already using. Imagining this is all you can do, since Dows Powerhouse Solar Shingles will be available (in limited quantities) in 2010, and are projected to ...
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• Get all the updates about renewable energy at New Energy Portal

  
  PR Friend Press Releases — Authority: 157
  The vision of New Energy Portal (NEP) is to support development, growth and networking in all areas of green and renewable energy. The goal of NEP is to de-monopolize power generation, to help the people worldwide in finding ways to cover energy demands by individual and affordable renewable energy devices and ...
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• Solar Battery Chargers Can Save You Money

  
  The Solar Cost Guide — Authority: 148
  The one uniquely distinguishing aspect of the world that we live in is our dependence (and some would argue and quite fairly, addiction) to electronic devices of all shapes and sizes. Just about every single task that can be feasibly performed by a human being has now been replaced and assumed by a machine. Of ...
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• ReneSola turns in a third-quarter loss

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Earnings reports Perhaps a bit of the shine is wearing off of solar stocks. Solar panel company ReneSola ( SOL ) turned in a third-quarter loss of $10.2 million , or seven cents per share, compared to earnings of 23 cents per share ($32.4 million) a year ago. Quarterly revenue fell to $141 million ...
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• Emcore (EMKR) To Supply Solar Panels For Cygnus Spacecraft

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 482
  Emcore just announced that they have a contract with Dutch Space to supply solar panels to power the Cygnus spacecraft.  The spacecraft, which is being developed for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) project by Orbital Sciences Corp, should launch in 2011 and will be used to deliver cargo to the ...
  10 hours ago

• Suntech (STP) Is Building Manufacturing Plant In Arizona

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 482
  Suntech just announced that they will be building a PV module manufacturing plant in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona. Once complete, the plant will have a 30 MW capacity. The plant should start production in late 2010, and will help Suntech provide better service to its US customers. It will also make Suntech’s ...
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• It Came from Outer Space

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 538
  Energy, that is. With few energy resources of its own, Japan is literally reaching for the stars in its attempt to turn unlimited clean energy into reality by 2030. The nation’s plan, known as the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), involves positioning huge, floating photovoltaic dishes to hover in the ...
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• ReneSola (SOL) Reports Mixed Results, Expects Return To Profitability In Two Quarters

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 482
  ReneSola (SOL) reported mixed Q3 results this morning posting a loss of $0.07 which was inline with analyst estimates on revenues of $140.9 million which was a bit better than Wall St estimates of $136.8 million. The company says it’s seeing a strong rebound in demand and expects to work through its high priced ...
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• Yingli Green Energy (YGE) Upgraded At Janney Montgomery, Downgraded At HSBC

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 482
  We have conflicting views on Yingli Green Energy (YGE) out of Janney Montgomery and HSBC.  Janney is upgrading it from Neutral to Buy with and has a price target of $20.  Hat tip to StreetInsider.com for the following analyst comment: “We are upgrade Yingli Green Energy to BUY, as the outlook for pricing and ...
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• What is Spurring Chinese Alternative Energy Companies to Build in US?

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 132
  China based Suntech Power aims to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona, according to Business Week.  As MyGreen Education and Career reported last week, a significant amount of US stimulus funding goes to China and other countries to build the green ...
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• SPI 09: Concentrating PhotoVoltaics Highlights

  
  GUNTHER Portfolio — Authority: 118
  CPV News from MASDAR trumps Solar Power International 09. I was looking forward to the SPI 09 Concentrating Photovoltaics (CPV) session moderated by Greentech Media Senior Analyst Eric Wesoff . For once, I had a few questions prepared in advance. When I sat down, I thought I was being mercenary sitting right ...
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• New Solar installation at Reunion Island

  
  Best Solar Energy — Authority: 99
  Some great news from my island – Reunion Island ! Group Ravate , through its subsidiary Ravat BUSINESS leading distributor of building materials in the Indian Ocean, and Urbasolar , have created a joint venture to be able to Operate and create new installations of photovoltaics  here at the Reunion ...
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• iPetals: Solar charger becomes a dock for your iPhone

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 645
  Drawing inspiration from the personal solar charging device by Fandi Meng, the Sunny Flower , which charges your gadgets on the go, designer Mac Funamizu has come up with a solar charger called “iPetals” to juice up an iPhone. The iPetals apart from harnessing the solar energy to charge your iPhone also doubles ...
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