Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA is expected in 2013 to become the first PV engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firm to install 1 gigawatt worth of solar power ...
First Solar is forecast to install 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar or photovoltaic (PV) power systems in 2013, more than double the 516 megawatts (MW) in 2012, according to IMS Research, now part of IHS. This high rate of growth will allow ...
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the US have now broken through the 10GW barrier, following strong market deployment since the start of 2010. During the first half of 2013, more than 1.8GW of new solar PV capacity was installed in ...
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Stellar Energy, a leading national provider of commercial solar systems, and Valley Fine Foods, the producer of hand-crafted gourmet pastas, have completed the installation of solar photovoltaic system at the natural foods provider’s ...
That's the conclusion of a study recently conducted by a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego. They found panels that hadn't been cleaned or rained on for 145 days during a summer drought in California lost only 7.4% ...
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HMC Farms, a US-based grower-shipper-packer of tree fruit and table grapes, is planning to install a 2.2MW solar system at its cold storage and packaging operations. Developed by Cenergy Power, the proposed solar power system will be ...
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At the Intersolar North America 2013 conference in San Francisco (9-11 July), concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has announced that its subsidiary Soitec Solar Development LLC of Peabody, MA, USA ...
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Nearly 36 years after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is nearing the edge of the solar system and interstellar space. NASA reported today that its getting data from the spacecraft that indicates it's now more than 11 billion miles ...
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Scientists have discovered a solar system with three super-Earths that could possibly hold liquid water,meaning they have the ability to support life. The three potentially habitable planets are part of a system of at least six planets ...
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Partners Khaled Juffali Company (KJC), a Saudi Arabian investment company, and concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, say that the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), a global petroleum and ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France? and Maxwell Technologies Inc, a developer and manufacturer of storage and power delivery solutions, are to collaborate on a California Energy Commission ...
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Imagine constellations nestled together into a neatly?rolled?circular formation that is small enough to fit inside your home. Designed for Raimond Puts for Moooi, this ornamental petite solar system leaves you in awe of the possibilities of ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has installed a CPV demonstration plant in the isolated village of Usib near Rehoboth in central Namibia. The 25kW installation has been connected to the grid of ...
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In the desert of southern Oman, near the border with Yemen, 4 acres of glass houses catch the sun. They sit in the Amal West oilfield, operated by Petroleum Development Oman. When it comes to developing its oil and gas reserves Oman ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France says that Santiago-based Minera El Tesoro (MET), part of one of the largest mining groups in Chile, has built the first pilot plant in South America using its ...
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