Yesterday PPG announced the Bullitt Center in Seattle, commonly known as the greenest office building, is constructed with PPG glass products. The six story 50,000 sq. ft. office building located in Seattle’s central district was ...
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For fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-September), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $43.1m, down ...
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America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
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Ontario’s updated Long-Term Energy Plan, “Achieving Balance”, encourages conservation, says the Ministry of Energy, and lays out a plan for “clean, reliable and affordable energy for Ontarians, where and when they ...
China's on-grid solar power capacity will rise 200 percent year-on-year to 10 gW by the end of this year, the National Energy Administration said in an online statement on Wednesday. The share of thermal power generation capacity is ...
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China's on-grid solar power capacity will amount to 10 million kilowatts (kw) by the end of 2013, a 200-percent jump from that seen a year ago, the National Energy Administration (NEA) forecast on Wednesday. Total installed power ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have used cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs) to increase the power conversion efficiency of three-junction solar cells by around 10% [Ya-Ju Lee et al, Optics Express, Vol. 21, pA953, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: CdSe CdSe quantum, Three-junction solar cells p-Ge substrates MOCVD
IIDEX Canada and Construct Canada will co-locate to create what they call North America's largest annual exposition and conference focusing on the design, construction and management of real estate: The Buildings Show. "We're excited to ...
Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
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Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France says that a group of investors – including a large European energy supplier, the largest Portuguese installer of electrical grid infrastructure, and the largest ...
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The European Union on Wednesday imposed hefty duties on Chinese imports of glass used in solar panels, saying China's producers were exporting at unfairly low prices that threatened European manufacturers. The European Commission said in ...
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The European Union (EU) decided on Monday to impose definitive measures on Chinese solar panels. According to a press release, the Council of the EU backed the European Commission's proposals to impose 42.1-percent anti-dumping duty and ...
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December 2, 2013 - Peter Aulich has been named the new CEO of KB Racking, after serving as COO for three years and expanding business into two provinces in Canada. “We could not have chosen a better person for the position of CEO. ...
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Manchester based Clynder Cables Ltd. are launching their Solaflex? PV (Photovoltaic) Cable after an anticipated increase in market demand. With increasing environmental awareness for alternative energy sources as well as the recent ...
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The European Union imposed tariffs as high as 42.1 percent on solar glass from China to curb import competition for EU producers, heightening trade tensions over renewable energy. The duties punish Chinese exporters such as Zhejiang ...
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