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• Oz Solar Technologies

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 440
  For a few years now I have been following the development of a number of renewable energy technologies. This is a keen interest of mine as my background has been predominantly in the power industry, and I of course am very concerned about the release that millions of years of stored carbon is having on the climate. ...
  15 hours ago

• Upper West Side Goes Green From the Ground Up!

  
  Solar One — Authority: 104
  Last Wednesday’s Green From the Ground Up was a huge success, with an overflow crowd at the Red Oak on West 106th Street. The unique event packed together valuable information about greening apartment buildings and opportunities for owners to meet energy and environmental services vendors. Highlights included ...
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• ATHLET – Thin-Film Technologies Research Project

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  ATHLET -  Advanced thin-film technologies for cost effective photovoltaics. The project aims to accelerate the decrease in the cost/efficiency ratio for thin-fi lm photovoltaic modules. It focuses on technologies based on amorphous, micro- and polycrystalline silicon as well as on I-III-VI2- chalcopyrite compound ...
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• UPP-Sol – Polygeneration With Solar Energy

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  Urban photovoltaics: polygeneration with solar energyThe cost of the electricity produced by photovoltaic technology is higher than that from conventional fuels. This is a major obstacle for sustained long-term growth of solar technologies, and currently requires massive governmental support to create artificial ...
  1 day ago

• Mongolia on Its Way to Becoming a Solar Power Giant

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 104
  Great things are happening in Inner Mongolia when it comes to solar power. This Mongol autonomous region located in northern China is becoming a powerful player in the alternative energy sector, and as such China wants to use the region to house various solar farms.This post was originally published on Solar Power ...
  2 days ago

• PV-MIPS – PV Module with Integrated Power Conversion and Interconnection System

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  Together with eleven European partners the Kassel-based research institute ISET has launched the research project PV-MIPS to develop a solar module with an integrated inverter that can feed solar electricity directly into the grid. With this new product, the partners aim to reduce the total costs of a PV system to 3 ...
  2 days ago

• List Of Possible Occupations in the Photovoltaic Sector

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  The photovoltaic sector is particularly promising in terms of job and local wealth creation; whether these are direct or indirect occupations.Direct occupations: Jobs created in the production, installation and maintenance of photovoltaics:Solar silicon, ingots and wafer producersSolar cell and module ...
  2 days ago

• Qualification Profiles Of The Photovoltaic Industry Workforce

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  The qualification profiles of the people involved in the Solar Energy industry will differ depending on their areas of activity within the PV sector value chain. The workforce needed to satisfy this future demand for highly qualified personnel will partly consist of persons explicitly specialised in photovoltaics, ...
  2 days ago

• Bosch Solar Energy Enters Partnership with Allianz Climate Solutions

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  New power stations to be built worldwide· Planning, construction, and financing expertise · Partners bring an international network to the tableErfurt/Munich – Bosch Solar Energy AG and Allianz Climate Solutions GmbH have entered into a partnership for the planning, financing, and turnkey construction of ...
  5 days ago

• Factoid: Thin-Film Solar Expected to See Sharp Growth in Europe

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 132
  By 2020, thin-film solar energy technology is expected to represent about one third of the total solar-photovolatics market, according to a recent European PhotoVoltaic Industry Association analysis.
  6 days ago

• Photovoltaic Market Development

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  The current levels of dependence on fossil fuels, the need of reducing the carbon emissions associated with energy use and the prospects of developing a new and extremely innovative technology sector, make photovoltaics increasingly attractive. In the last years the photovoltaic market expanded extensively, especially ...
  6 days ago

• Photovoltaic Technology and Solar Cells

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  Photovoltaics is the field of technology and research related to the devices which directly convert sunlight into electricity. The solar cell is the elementary building block of the photovoltaic technology. Solar cells are made of semiconductor materials, such as silicon. One of the properties of semiconductors ...
  1 week ago

• Winds of Change for Spanish PV Inverters

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
   While the Swiss manufacturer Sputnik Engineering has mostly sold central inverters for free-standing systems to Spain in the last few years, since mid-2009 the Solar Max string inverters have become a new best-seller. Biel , 18 November 2009. Since the middle of 2009, fitters have increasingly installed PV plants on ...
  1 week ago

• A Solar Technology Seeks Its Day in the Sun

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  Concentrating photovoltaic technology, which uses mirrors or lenses to focus the suns rays on small, high-efficiency solar panels, has struggled to get off the ground.
  1 week ago

• Photovoltaics and Grid Integration

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  Some people state that “PV will not integrate into the existing electricity grid.”The fact is: Approximately 3 GW Photovoltaic (PV) capacity is European wide grid-connected. According to the experience available so far, it is safe to say that operating the technology within the existing electricity networks is ...
  1 week ago

• Surreal Science: 10 Sensational New Discoveries

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  Imagine going blind, and having your sight restored using your own tooth – or putting on a helmet that allows other people to read your thoughts. It may sound like the most unlikely of science fiction, but these things are actually possible thanks to the many astounding scientific discoveries made in the past year ...
  1 week ago

• New photovoltaic system is “foldable, concealed and mobile”

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 416
  Source: Gatech.edu It won’t replace silicon PV cells any time soon but it could expand the possibilities of producing solar energy. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of three-dimensional photovoltaic system which could allow PV systems to be hidden from view and located ...
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• Present Status and Future of the Photovoltaic Market

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  The photovoltaic (PV) market remains one of the most dynamic sectors globally. Global annual growth rates of over 35 % were experienced over recent years. Even with the temporary shortage of silicon in 2006, more systems were installed than in the previous years. The global PV market is currently dominated by Germany, ...
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• New Solar installation at Reunion Island

  
  Best Solar Energy — Authority: 100
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Solar glut is temporary, demand to catch up by 2012

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Energy , Green The oversupply problem plaguing the solar panel industry may be coming to a close. A glut of panels caused prices to plunge this year, calling into question the future the industry, as well as the individual fortunes of manufacturers. An increase in demand from Germany is helping to ...
  1 week ago

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