Wales’ national coal mining museum is now benefitting from solar energy following the installation of PV panels. Big Pit, one of Wales’ biggest tourist attractions and part of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, is ...
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Solar panel installations across the UK are set to increase in 2013, the minister for climate change Greg Barker predicts. Mr Barker believes that as the cost of manufacturing panels has been reduced, more people are expected to invest in ...
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New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra has opened a solar powered milk chilling center in Hanwella, Sri Lanka. The chilling facility features 32 solar panels with a 3.24 kW capacity and is expected to conserve about ...
Midland, Mich.-based Dow Corning and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Crystal Solar, a solar energy venture company, have announced their intention to work together to supply high-performance, silicon-based materials for photovoltaic cells and ...
The China end-market dominated shipments of solar panels during the final quarter of 2012 with 33% of global end-market demand, according to NPD Solarbuzz. "Just two years ago, the China end-market was less than 10% of global solar ...
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New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has opened Sri Lanka's first solar powered milk chilling centre. The Hanwella-based facility, which officially opened this week, has been designed to conserve around 22,000 kW per year. The centre, which ...
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Oxford Advanced Surfaces Group, a technology developer targeting a number of global markets including consumer and industrial displays, solar panels, eyewear and the electronics and adhesion markets, has announced a key addition to its ...
University of East Anglia scientists have undertaken an £800,000 research project to artificially replicate photosynthesis - the process by which plants transform sunlight into energy to help them grow. The energy created will be ...
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With the new Renewable Solar Inverter, many Grundfos products can now operate on solar power. A large new market is therefore opening up for products requiring larger quantities of water than the SQFlex pump can deliver. Concurrently with ...
Dresden University spin-off Heliatek claims to have measured a record 12.0% cell efficiency for its organic solar cells. The work was carried out in cooperation with the University of Ulm and TU Dresden, was measured by the ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) using flexible substrate materials, has announced the retail debut of its ...
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Amid rapidly falling prices, mounting losses and massive operational costs, the upstream solar photovoltaic (PV) supply chain is undergoing major consolidation, with the number of companies participating in the market expected to plunge by ...
Dip-Tech, the world-leading provider of digital ceramic in-glass printing solutions, today announced that it has received ABZ-70.1-75 certification from the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (German Institute for Civil Engineering). ...
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Beijing-based Hanergy Holding Group Ltd (claimed to be China's largest privately owned renewable energy firm) has finalized its acquisition of MiaSole of Santa Clara, CA, USA, which was founded in 2001 to make copper indium gallium ...
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Amid rapidly falling prices, mounting losses and massive operational costs, the upstream solar supply chain is undergoing major consolidation, with the number of companies participating in the market expected to plunge by 70% this year. ...
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