It's tough to shop for techies. They already own everything with a plug or rechargeable battery. But fear not, a slew of unique technology gifts have hit the market just in time for Christmas. Here's a roundup of some of the season's most ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Tech Gifts
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and CEA (the French Atomic and Renewable Energy Commission) have renewed their long-standing partnership for the ...
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After announcing earlier in the week that it had added 50kW in signed projects to its PV system development and installation services pipeline, XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide ...
Tags: PV System, Electronics
The total capacity of new PV systems installed around the world in 2013 is estimated at 34GWp, growing 9.7% on year, and global installation capacity is expected to rise to 40GWp in 2014 and further to 60GWp in 2015, according to the Bureau ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems
Seeing difficulties achieving further growth in the notebook business, Inventec is planning to switch its focus to the cloud computing and solar industries for 2014-2016, according to company chairman Richard Lee. As most ODMs are ...
Tags: Inventec, Cloud Computing, Solar Businesses
The leader in Building Integrated Photovoltaic and the European specialist in aluminum solutions join forces to enable a more sustainable building. Onyx Solar, leader in photovoltaic glass, and Reynaers, his new partner dedicated to the ...
Tags: construction, solar, glass
Solarcentury has announced it has gained planning consent to build a 13.4 MWp solar park near Eynsham, Oxfordshire in Prime Minister David Cameron's constituency. The solar park will generate enough clean solar electricity to power the ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar Park
Segen, the UK's leading value added distributor of renewable technologies, has today announced a new partnership with Phono Solar, adding a new range of quality and cost-effective PV panels to its comprehensive portfolio. Segen will begin ...
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Conergy will build five solar farms totaling 40 megawatts (MW) for Primrose Solar, which is backed by financial investors York Capital Management and Pioneer Point Partners LLP. A pipeline of four more solar parks with an additional ...
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The Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on December 18 signed an agreement to transfer DSSC (dye-sensitized solar cell) manufacturing technology to Formosa Plastics. Formosa Plastics began DSSC R&D ...
Tags: Formosa Plastics, Lighting
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that its cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules will power four solar energy plants in France, with a combined capacity of 48MW. Developed and owned by independent renewable energy ...
Tags: Solar, PV Projects, Electrical, Electronics, Solar Module
There were 2,806 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 15th December 2013, compared to 2,807 in the week ending 8th December 2013. This takes the total number of sub 50 kW solar PVs registered on the MCS database ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar, PV System
British Solar Renewables confirms innovative joint venture with Santander to invest in the construction of 56.5MW of UK Solar PV projects at three sites across the UK. The sites are located in areas with high light levels in West ...
Tags: Solar, Solar Construction Investment, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Permission was granted by Wiltshire Council at their Planning Meeting on Wednesday 27th November 2013 for a Solar Park at Blenches Mill, a 12.5 hectare site adjacent to the sewage treatment works and Westbury Business Park. The initial ...
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From the end of March 2014, the Feed-in-Tariff will only be available for solar systems that meet the new rigorous demands of MCS 012. To date, only five products have received certification and three of the certificates have been issued to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar