Search engine giant Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project to power its Oklahoma datacentre. The collaboration is part of Google's ...
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The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
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It is our pleasure to invite you to this year’s ENERGY FORUM on Solar Building Skins. The main objective of the conference is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach to sustainable buildings, and to create a ...
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany have successfully tested power transistors made of gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronic systems. By using such transistors the researchers says ...
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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, says it recently completed assembly ...
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Today outlined their funding strategy out to 2015, which includes strategic, supporting and complementary initiatives to drive long-term change. ARENA brings under one process a wide range of early stage and commercialisation programs, ...
Upon completion, the project will provide the southwest of England based farm with a guaranteed rental income over the next 25 years, and a regular supply of clean electricity direct to the national grid. The 18,000 PV panels will be ...
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Tata Power Company renamed its solar-energy venture and appointed a new chief executive for the unit. Tata BP Solar India Ltd.will now be called Tata Power Solar Systems Ltd.,the country's largest private power company by capacity said in ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe)as well as providing engineering,procurement and construction(EPC)services,recently completed installation of a 3.2kW PV ...
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Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
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Taiwan-based ODM Inventec has obtained PV(photovoltaic)module orders from a Japan-based client and has begun shipments,according to company chairman Richard Lee. While Inventec has been an ICT product supplier for the client,the client ...
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) provides accreditation in accordance with ISO/IEC Guide 65 for product certification programs to ensure that the marketplace can gain confidence for their activities. The program is overseen ...
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As a World’s first, no less than 300m2 of dye sensitized solar cells will be integrated to the facade of the EPFL’s Convention Center. This prototype will constitute the first application of such technology to a public building. ...
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Taipei, Dec. 14, 2012 (CENS)--Eversol Corp., Taiwan’s No.3 manufacturer of crystalline silicon wafers, will team up with JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. of mainland China and West Holdings Co. of Japan to set up a solar-power plant in ...
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December 14, 2012 - Ontario is re-launching the small Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program, and Ontario Power Authority (OPA) will begin accepting applications today from proponents of renewable energy projects over 10kW up to 500kW. The ...
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