Incentives in Canada have resulted in so much solar energy that only a move to smart grid can use it all. So claims National Instruments (NI), which is to provide monitoring and control equipment. "To promote conservation and ...
Tags: Smart Grid, Wasted Solar
Solar dog houses have particular appeal to folks living in the cold northern climes. The basic idea is to keep your dog warm by employing solar technology in the dog house design. If you peruse Google Groups, you'll come across a number ...
While feed-in-tariffs are a well-established incentive scheme, which many homeowners have benefited from since they were introduced, the government's new Green Deal financing scheme is very much in its infancy. With feed-in tariff ...
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Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, bio-oil electricity generators
A new study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) puts some hard numbers to the benefits realized when U.S. cities streamline their solar PV permitting processes. Germany´s residential solar adoption is attributed to ...
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Livermore,California -- The city is nearing completion of a plan to upgrade its street lights with LED lights, officials said. Upgrading to LED street lights is part of a multi-phase project in collaboration with Chevron. Council members ...
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The availability of solar panels and LEDs (light emitting diodes) have enabled the illumination of roads and streets in areas where it is difficult or costly to access power. This is not only for remote areas because even in densely ...
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Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institut in Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have shown that a single core–shell p–i–n junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire ...
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During an automated packaging process, materials can shift and become unstable causing components to move during transport. An international manufacturer of solar cells turned to Glue Dots Intl. to resolve this very issue. The problem: ...
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British Solar Renewables Limited has successfully secured planning permission for a 20MW solar farm on land attached to a waste management and recycling facility close to Bournemouth International Airport in Parley, Dorset. When complete, ...
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Bentley Motors has announced that it is installing the UK's largest roof mounted solar panel system. The installation will be owned and operated by Lightsource Renewable Energy Limited, the UK's leading solar energy generator. Over ...
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The launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) of its Proba-V earth observation mini-satellite in the coming weeks will represent the first time that a European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) will be sent into space. This follows ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – is acquiring TetraSun of ...
Tags: First Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, solar
April 8, 2013 - The construction of the photovoltaic power industry since 2000 has required an enormous amount of energy, say Stanford University researchers, mostly from fossil fuels. The good news is that the clean electricity from all ...
Statistics show that the quantity of power being guzzled by many companies' lighting solutions is not only disproportionate to other operational costs but, furthermore, could be reduced. In commercial properties, lights are using up ...
Tags: Lighting, lighting solutions