Solar power and photovoltaics news articles 
Kingspan Heats up its Solar Offering with the Launch of Varisol HP
Following the success of Varisol, the world’s first modular solar thermal collector with no manifold, Kingspan Renewables has launched Varisol HP – a revolutionary new design, which uses advanced heat pipe technology to deliver sustained, top quality performance matched with a lifetime of energy savings. This latest breakthrough retains all the benefits of the original Varisol DF (direct flow) model – using high performance polymer materials ... [more]
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants and Gehrlicher Solar America Announce Joint-Development of Solar Systems in the Southwest
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants and Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. announced a strategic joint-development agreement focused on providing solar energy to water and wastewater treatment facilities in California, Arizona and Nevada. Since 1919, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants has specialized in the planning, evaluation and design of water and wastewater treatment facilities. With a significant client network in the western US, including 250 facilities in Calif... [more]
Biomass Commodities Corporation and Trumbull-Nelson Construction Company completing wood pellet heating system at Lebanon middle school
School Administrative Unit (SAU) #88 designed the new Lebanon Middle School to include the two wood pellet fired boilers to heat the entire 100,000 square foot building. The two wood pellet boilers provide all of the heat for the new building. A solar array will produce hot water during shoulder and summer seasons. Due to this innovative design and the inclusion of renewable energy systems, the new building will burn zero fossil fuels. A Northe... [more]
SolarEdge enhances its residential offering, introducing a new 2.2kW inverter at Ecobuild 2012
SolarEdge Technologies, a leading global provider of end-to-end solar power optimization systems and monitoring solutions, announced today a new product: a 2.2kW cost effective inverter, expanding the current portfolio of single phase solar inverters, and enhancing the company’s offering for residential installations. The line of SolarEdge inverters now includes a new 2.2kW inverter, adding to the existing 3kW, 3.5kW, 4kW, 5kW and 6kW single ... [more]
175 years Wardell Armstrong – from coal and minerals to wind and waste
Wardell Armstrong, independent engineering and environmental consultancy, celebrates its 175th anniversary this year : in 1837, the mining engineer company laid the foundations for what has become a successful multi-disciplinary international company. Today, Wardell Armstrong offers a wide range of skills across renewable energy, waste resource management, land and property, infrastructure and utilities. It also continues to build on a stron... [more]
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EANS-News: centrotherm photovoltaics' centaurus technology for high efficiency solar cells successfully transferred ...
centrotherm photovoltaics AG: Corporate news transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer/originator is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Company Information Subtitle: More than 100.000 centaurus high efficiency solar cells already ...
Pythagoras Solar Expands Leadership Team to Serve Growing Demand for its Solar Windows
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pythagoras Solar, provider of "powered by Pythagoras" solar windows that simultaneously deliver energy efficiency, high power density and optimized ...
Optimal planning of solar power plants
The photovoltaics industry is booming, and the market for solar farms is growing quickly all over the world. Yet, the task of planning PV power plants to make them as effi cient as possible is far from trivial. Fraunhofer researchers, working with Siemens Energy Photovoltaics, have developed software that simplifi es conceptual design.
EMCORE Awarded Solar Panel Manufacturing Contract by JPL for Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- EMCORE Corporation , a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced today that it has been awarded ...
Solar power, UAV firms partner
THORNTON, Colo., May 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. developer of flexible solar panels has become a development partner of Bye Aerospace Inc. in its aerospace programs, including UAVs.
Go Solar to Save the Planet and Your Wallet
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM-- - British Gas have launched a new range of solar panels that are designed to help the environment by enabling households to generate their own low carbon energy whilst saving hundreds ...
Suntech CTO Awarded the Prestigious Australian Collaborative Innovation Award
SYDNEY and WUXI, China, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, today announced that its chief technology officer, ...
Ascent Solar Named Bye Aerospace Development Partner
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. , a developer of flexible CIGS solar panels, has been named a development partner for Bye Aerospace Inc.’s innovative aircraft programs
ResearchMoz: Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices 2011 - 2021 - Market Research Reports
ALBANY, New York, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --New Report Added in ResearchMoz Reports Database Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices 2011-2021 Energy harvesting is otherwise known as power ...
Wind power 'can be cheaper' than photovoltaics, study says
[SANTIAGO] Generating wind energy is more than twice as cheap as solar photovoltaic (PV) energy production, a study of alternative energy in six developing countries has found.
