Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
Tags: PV CIGSSe, Electrical, Electronics
ARPA-E deputy director Cheryl Martin has announced $27m in funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has launched its ...
Tags: Solar-Integrated Backpack, Backpack, Bags
SolarFields UK has the lofty ambition of becoming the UK's largest investment opportunity in solar energy. Setup by property investment specialist, Andrew Freeth, SolarFields UK, a trading name of Renewable Energy Projects Ltd, is looking ...
Tags: Solar Panels, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A new, world-class solar energy research centre to support the growth of the solar industry in Wales, and headed by one of the world's pre-eminent solar energy research scientist, has been launched today by Swansea University after being ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK's leading solar energy generator, today announces the formation of a new arm to its rapidly growing team of specialists. The company is now taking maintenance matters in-house with a new team of highly ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Belltown Alpha Renewables has announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 10.2MWp solar project in Somerset and a 500kW wind project in Wales. Belltown Alpha Renewables was formed in May 2013 as a joint venture between Belltown ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The UK's largest solar farm has won the inaugural Solar Power Portal award for Most Successful Large-scale Ground Mount Solar Site. Wymeswold Airfield was developed by Lark Energy and the landowner Prestwold Estates, and was funded and is ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar
Following Greg Barker's (Minister of State, Department of Energy & Climate Change) announcement of the UK's solar energy roadmap at Solar Energy UK this week, the Minister visited Bentley Motor's factory in Crewe to tour their impressive ...
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The entire daytime electricity needs of the refurbished British Gas-owned Smart Home development in Watford are expected to be met thanks to an innovative transparent solar PV glass atrium, according to the Cambridge-based company – ...
Tags: electricity, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taiwan-based Motech Industries on October 17 unveiled its Sirius series monocrystalline silicon solar cells with a maximum energy conversion rate of 20.5% and will kick off volume production in the first quarter of 2014. Motech said it ...
Tags: Motech, Silicon Soar Cells
After a successful presence at this year's Solar Energy UK, Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering (SolarMax) announced to have signed a partnership with PV wholesaler Solen Energy UK. Both companies agreed on a nationwide ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Solar Energy
The sophistication of information gleaned from "big data" has reached such a level that it is starting to impinge on privacy, warns Menno van Doorn, a director at VINT Research, which is part of the Sogeti IT services company. Van Doorn ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Solar Power International is powered by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). SPI held its inaugural show in 2003 and was designed to serve and advance the solar energy industry by ...
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With the UK's commitment to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, it stands to reason that renewable energy systems will increasingly feature in our built environment. Solar power is one of several technologies that will ...
Tags: Solar Panel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy