December 18, 2012 - To address “an unprecedented severe skilled labour shortage facing the renewable electricity industry”, Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC)—formerly Electricity Sector Council (ESC)—is ...
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The Rockwell Automation Inc. clock tower has completed a massive conversion of its lighting system expected to reduce energy use by 81 percent and save about $750,000 over the life of the new lights, the company said Wednesday. The ...
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Three models of Orion Energy Systems' LED fixture were recently added to the DesignLights™ Consortium Qualified Products List after third-party testing resulted in a 96.57 lumens per watt rating for Orion's LED high bay fixture. ...
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Two key figures behind the emergence of concentrator photovoltaics(CPV)as a viable energy technology have won a share of the 2012 German Environmental Award. Worth€500,000,the award is presented each year by the Deutsche ...
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Power Integrations introduces 75W single-stage driver for LED lighting Date Announced:16 Aug 2012 San Jose,CA–Power Integrations(Nasdaq:POWI),maker of the world's most efficient,longest-lasting off-line LED driver ICs,today ...
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Amonix shuts large HCPV panel factory in US 25 Jul 2012"Competition,price pressure,challenging market",cited as reasons for Las Vegas closure.Does HCPV still have good prospects? . It was reported locally that the Seal ...
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The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium(PVMC)–an industry-led partnership between international semiconductor manufacturers'research consortium SEMATECH of Albany,NY,USA and the College of Nanoscale Science and ...
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4 June 2012 Sharp develops concentrator solar cell with efficiency of 43.5% Japan's Sharp Corp has used a concentrator triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor photovoltaic cell to achieve a solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
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Company develops strategies to bring benefits of renewable energy technologies to Latin American nations Agrasun,a innovative Miami company with biofuels expertise,is opening a"renewable energy experience"showroom in Miami's Design ...
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Performance data for a solar membrane distillation desalination plant in Gran Canaria, Spain have been analysed for a five-year period. There is a direct correlation between solar radiation and the feed and distillate volume. This ...
When a devastating 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010 and killed more than 316,000 people, countries around the world sent humanitarian aid and rescue teams. But with much of the impoverished nation left without power, energy ...
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When a devastating 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010 and killed more than 316,000 people, countries around the world sent humanitarian aid and rescue teams. But with much of the impoverished nation left without power, energy ...
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LED North America has turned the headquarters building for Outpost Solar in Pulaski, TN, into an all-LED facility. LED North America, an incubator facility for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak ...
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SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tenesol SA, a global solar provider ...
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SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tenesol SA, a global solar provider ...
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