City of Toronto Orders 8,800 Solar Panels
The forecast for Toronto is hopefully calling for sunny skies. The city will certainly need it following an announcement that 8,800 solar panels installed atop 10 city-owned arenas and community...
View ArticleHIT Sets 21.4% Efficiency Solar Cell Record
Thanks to researchers at EPFL`s Institute of Microengineering in Neuchatel, Switzerland, a new world record efficiency of 21.4% has been set for solar cells. This feat was done with HIT solar cells...
View ArticleReport: BIPV Market to Triple
Building-integrated solar is expected to more than triple in dollar volume between now and 2015, according to a new report from NanoMarkets. The research company, based in Virginia, released a report...
View ArticleSunPartner Enters U.S Market
SunPartner, a French company that won the second-ever Nobel Sustainability award earlier this month, is expanding its technology to solarize new surfaces and its market reach into the United States....
View ArticleTop 5 Recent Renewable Energy Breakthroughs
We are currently on the frontier of green energy. Scientists have been busy researching and developing ideas to launch humanity into the future of energy usage. A number of these technologies that have...
View ArticleSolexel Raises $36.5M
Last week, we covered the unveiling of Solexel, a thin-silicon technology startiup hoping to bring 20-percent-efficient photovoltaic modules at a cost of $0.42 per watt to the market in 2014. At the...
View ArticleBIPV Solar Market to Quadruple
Concerns over aesthetics and performance have limited the uptick of solar installations using building integrated PV (BIPV), but that will change over the next five years, with up to 4.6 gigawatts (GW)...
View ArticleSilevo Brings 21% Efficient PV Modules to Market
Silevo, Inc. is bringing a new type of silicon-based photovoltaic to the market that the company is calling a hybrid PV cell. The Triex design integrates a standard silicon wafer with other, active...
View Article3 Examples of Solar as Architectural Design
When people think of solar panels they don’t immediately think of beauty and innovative design. Instead they tend to picture ugly, blocky panels that have been awkwardly placed on the roof of a...
View ArticleThe 2012 Global Solar Energy Leaders
Solar power by country rankings are usually based on total solar capacity and do not account for country populations and GDP. Giants such as the U.S. and China are installing thousands of megawatts of...
View ArticleFuel Cells That Power Buildings
Besides moving forward in transportation, fuel cells are also making headway powering buildings, especially if “The Cube” makes it successfully to market. The post Fuel Cells That Power Buildings...
View ArticleSolar Pipeline is 43 Gigawatts Strong!
There are enough solar photovoltaic installations in the pipeline to power 6 million households. NPD Solarbuzz, an industry research and analytics firm, The post Solar Pipeline is 43 Gigawatts Strong!...
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FreeGreenius: An App for Finding Renewable Energy Locations
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has released a free version of the simulation program FreeGreenius. The program brings together technical and commercial...
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The Future of Solar Power is Clear or Maybe Colorful
While the overwhelming majority of solar panels today are shades of black or blue, numerous companies are working to make a new generation of solar cells and modules that aren’t black. These include...
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