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County Expects to Offset $1.5 Million in Electricity Costs in First Year SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) announced today that construction is underway on two solar power projects for Yolo County in Calif. The projects are expected to generate 5.8 megawatts of emission-free solar power for county facilities, worth an estimated $1.5 million in electricity costs the first year of operation. The projects include one array built at the...
Chicago-based Solar EPC Provider Selects ReneSola Modules for Utility-Scale Solar Farm SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company") (NYSE: SOL), a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic ("PV") modules and wafers, today announced it has been contracted to provide 7,200 of its 250-watt high-efficiency polycrystalline solar PV modules for a solar project to be built by S&C Electric Company ("S&C"), a Chicago-based...
NORTHBROOK, Ill., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a notification from UL to Authorities Having Jurisdiction, distributors, installers and users that the photovoltaic panels identified below bear counterfeit UL Marks for the United States and Canada . The photovoltaic (solar) panels have not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate Standards for Safety and it is unknown if these photovoltaic panels comply with UL's safety requirements for the United States or Canada....
Exploring innovations in renewable energy. Portage, IN (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 Fronius USA announced today that they will be featured in an upcoming episode of Shades of Green. Fronius USA, one of the world's leading manufacturers of high quality grid-connected photovoltaic inverters has been engaging in the field of solar electronics since 1992. In this episode of Shades of Green, audiences will explore Fronius' high-performance, innovative inverter series, which includes the...
The project, connected already, is on the roof of Dilmah Tea, a leading tea company headquartered in the city of Peliyagoda, in the Western Province. To date, it is the largest self-consumption solar PV installation on the island. It will generate about 150,000kWh/year. (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 PROINSO, a global leader in the supply of PV solar products, has for the first time delivered PV supplies to Sri Lanka. These products went to a 102kWp self-consumption solar PV facility, which has...
Strata Solar to Build Five 6.5 MW Solar Farms in North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company") (NYSE: SOL), a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic ("PV") modules and wafers, today announced it has agreed to provide more than 108,000 of its 300 watt ("W") high-efficiency Virtus II 72-cell polycrystalline solar modules to Strata Solar, LLC ("Strata Solar"), one of the top solar developers and EPCs in the United...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Nanowires could be the answer for constructing solar panels with less materials and lower costs. Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) are working on new technology to advance solar panels. New research on tiny filaments called nanowires has made some promising findings. Influenced by nature, researcher Anna Fontcuberta i Morral looked at how trees in a forest stand upright to collect energy from the sun....
Stanford University The rapid growth of the solar power industry over the past decade may have exacerbated the global warming situation it was meant to soothe, simply because most of the energy used to manufacture the millions of solar panels came from burning fossil fuels. That irony, according to Stanford University researchers, is coming to an end. For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world's installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last...
NewsWatch, a national television show, highlighted "Ascent Solar’s Surfr Series", a leader in solar and traditional chargeable cases for smartphones. NewsWatch featured their top 10 products from the 2013 Consumer Electronic Show with tech guru, Scott Steinberg. (PRWEB) April 04, 2013 NewsWatch, a national television show, highlighted "Ascent Solar’s Surfr Series", a leader in solar and traditional chargeable cases for smartphones. NewsWatch featured their top 10...
A recently added market report by Transparency Market Research on “Thin Film Photovoltaics Market - Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis And Forecasts 2012 - 2018" is now available for pre-order. To browse the report, visit http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/thin-film-photovoltaics-market.html Albany, NY (PRWEB) April 04, 2013 Thin film photovoltaics are solar cells manufactured by placing one or more thin layers of photovoltaic material on a substrate. The...
