Google Research And Development Arm Acquires Wind Generator Firm
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Google is looking to take flight. On Thursday the search giant, through its secretive Google X division – which is responsible for research and development – acquired Makani Power....
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Intersolar North America Highlights New Products Across Six Exhibition Segments that Promise to Further Reduce Installed Cost of Solar SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intersolar North America, the most attended industry exhibition and conference in North America for solar professionals to exchange information and develop business opportunities in the U.S. solar market, will feature a variety of new products that boost system efficiency and lower costs on its 2013...
Affordable Solar Partners with Sunnova Energy Corporation to Introduce New Mexico's Most Affordable Solar Power Option ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Affordable Solar announced that its retail business is offering a solar panel leasing program to residential customers in New Mexico. For less than the monthly cost of their electric bills, many New Mexicans can now use renewable solar energy to help power their homes. Affordable Solar's new solar financing program, in...
Researchers working to improve durability in fuel cell powered buses, including a team from Simon Fraser University, have discovered links between electrode degradation processes and bus membrane durability. The team is quantifying the effects of electrode degradation stressors in the operating cycle of the bus on the membrane lifetime. The findings of the study, led by SFU graduate student Natalia MaCauley, are the latest in a long-term study at Burnaby-based Ballard Power Systems and...
Peak Solar introduces free online training seminars for its solar kits. Online (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Peak Solar introduces unique, interactive solar training seminars, which are free of charge, targeted to help potential customers make informed buying choices. Research studies tell companies that the most important factor to ensuring customer satisfaction is to give them the tools needed to make informed choices. Peak Solar has taken this advice to heart. Solar training seminars will be...
Technology innovation opens the path to competitiveness breakthrough in PV industry BERNIN, France, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced today the industry's first four-junction solar cell device, which works under concentrated sunlight, putting the company on the solar-energy industry's technology roadmap at a world-class level of...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCQB: SWET) (the "Company"), the inventor of a large Solar Wind Downdraft Tower structure capable of producing abundant, inexpensive electricity, today announced the allowance of Patent Application Number 13/098,476, titled "Atmospheric Energy Extraction Devices and Methods", by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers a structure for producing electricity, specifically a tower...
SHANGHAI, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global PV solar power product manufacturer, today announced that its solar PV modules have passed TUV Nord's Dust & Sand Certification Test. TUV Nord's certification indicates that JinkoSolar's modules are suitable for installation in desert regions, where a shortage of rain and constant sandstorm scan cause solar PV plants to operate inefficiently....
LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: QTWW), a global leader in natural gas storage systems, integration and vehicle system technologies, today announced that it will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2013 Annual Meeting") on July 25, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. local time at the Company's corporate office located at 25242 Arctic Ocean Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92630. The record date for the...
Peak Solar is proud to announce to additional sales director. (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Peak Solar LLC is proud to announce the recent hiring of 2 new solar sales managers in the state of California, one of which were hired out of the Northern California region alone! The other sales manager was hired in the Los Angeles region. Peak Solar had been looking for qualified people who were passionate about selling solar kits and the response we received has been amazing. Employment opportunities,...
SHANGHAI, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global PV solar power product manufacturer, today announced that it has created a strategic partnership with GRID Alternatives, a US nonprofit solar installer, to donate 150kW of its solar modules towards the installation and training of volunteers of solar electric systems exclusively for low-income homeowners. JinkoSolar's donation will provide savings of over...
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The above image looks at the month of March for the three cycles known as Normal Phase, El-Nino, and La-Nina. The data was recorded for the city of Austin Texas. Remember this is just data for one month during these cycles. Normal: During this cycle incoming solar activity was upwards to 60% efficient for the month, producing enough solar energy that only 40% of the month would have not had strong incoming radiation. EL-Nino: This phase provided the area with an extended number of...
