Willen Hospice, based in Milton Keynes, which specialises in caring for people whose illnesses no longer respond to curative treatment, is now benefiting from solar power thanks to an initiative from Conergy, SMA Solar UK and local PV ...
Tags: Coenergy, SMA, FSG, Energy Team, Solar Energy System
Weekly PV Highlights: The initial installation numbers for the week ending 20th January 2013 show 1,528 installations in that week compared to 1,507 for the week ending 13th January 2013. The total number of installations on the MCS is ...
Tags: DECC FIT, Solar PV Installations, 2013
A new survey conducted by IMS Research of more than 400 photovoltaic (PV) inverter purchasers has revealed that the most preferred PV inverter brand globally in 2012 was SMA Solar Technology. IMS Research’s recently released report ...
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 ...
Tags: Solar, Coal Mining, solar panels
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 ...
Tags: Solar PV Test Technology, solar PV system, photovoltaic systems
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has welcomed the publication of the UK Renewables Roadmap. The Roadmap identifies the key renewable energy technologies that will enable the UK to fulfil its 2020 15% renewable energy target. Generation ...
Tags: Renewables Roadmap, renewable energy, renewable electricity
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 ...
Tags: solar cell, CIGSolar TFPV solar cell, solar
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 ...
A Canadian consortium of renewable energy developers including Solexica Energy Corporation, JCM Capital and Radical Energy has signed a 20-year concession agreement with CONELEC, Ecuador’s National Electricity Board, for the purchase ...
Tags: Canadian consortium, renewable energy developers, solar plant
Suntech PV modules power Saudi Arabia’s largest solar system, a 3.5MW solar energy field in Riyadh, the company today announced. Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih inaugurated the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and ...
Tags: Suntech, PV modules, audi Arabia, solar system
Quick Mount PV today announced it has received ISO 9001:2008 certification for quality management in the manufacturing of its solar roof mounts in Walnut Creek, California. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) develops ...
Tags: Quick Mount PV, ISO 9001:2008 certification, quality management
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 ...
Tags: IEEE PV Conference
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, ...
Electricity prices in Germany continue to be high. The country has been striving for stable electricity supply in order to maintain economic growth. Therefore, developing renewable energy has been inevitable since the country announced ...
Tags: Solar Installations, Germany, 2012
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 ...