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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Innovative hand held electrical test instrumentation has been used on the installation of a new solar PV system which has been designed to enable a school to reduce its carbon footprint. Southern Solar, one of the UK’s leading ...
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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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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun processing CIS films with ...
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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 glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
AGC Interpane is displaying a 14 metre long, 3.2 metre high sheet of laminated glass on its stand at the BAU 2013 trade show in Munich (14-19/01/2013). The glazing was coated at the Plattling plant and assembled into safety glass by Seele ...
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Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has announced that co-founder Eric Lidow passed away on 18 January. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of Russia) over 100 years ago in 1912, ...
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Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
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Registration is now open for the 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), a technical gathering for PV scientists, engineers and stakeholders. The 2013 event will take place ...
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Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
Technology applied to photovoltaic systems is making great strides ahead achieving noteworthy performance levels versus the recent past. For example traditional panels will be replaced by photovoltaic facades making large architectural ...
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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 ...
In collaboration with Imperial College London in the UK and MicroLink Devices Inc of Niles, IL, USA, researchers in the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronics Technology and Science have proposed a novel triple-junction solar ...
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 ...
Tags: Ascent Solar, EnerPlex CIGS, photovoltaic modules, lighting