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• Ssolar policy pathways for U.S. states examined ScienceDaily (Today) - The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a report that aligns solar policy and market success with state demographics. By organizing the 48 contiguous states into four peer groups based on shared non-policy characteristics, the research team was able to contextualize the impact...
• Trina Solar Announces Sale of Wuwei Solar Power Plant to Huadian Fuxin eSolar News (Today) - CHANGZHOU, CHINA--(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Trina Solar , a global leader in photovoltaic modules, solutions, and services, today announced it has successfully sold its 50 MW Solar Power Plant in Wuwei, Gansu province to Huadian Fuxin Energy Corporation. Huadian Fuxin will assume 100 percent ownership of the project...
• Yingli Solar Signs Its Largest Module Supply Agreement to Date in Israel eSolar News (Today) - BAODING, CHINA-- Yingli Solar today announced its largest supply agreement to date in Israel and the Middle East, under which the Company will deliver 27.5 MW of multicrystalline PV modules between February and April of 2014. The Company will supply its YGE 72 Cell NH...
• Enphase Energy Celebrates 3,000th Installation in The Netherlands in Under 24 Months eSolar News (Yesterday) - LYON, FRANCE--(eSolarEnergyNews)--Enphase Energy  today announced the celebration of its second year in the Dutch photovoltaic market as well as the cumulative installation of 3,000 Enphase systems within two years. Translated into numbers, this means that the overall Enphase installations have produced more than 6.5GWh of...
• California ISO Breaks New Solar Production Record eSolar News (Yesterday) - FOLSOM, CA--(eSolarEnergyNews)--Solar power production hit a new record of 4,093 megawatts on Saturday, March 8, 2014. The previous record was 3,926 megawatts (MW) set the previous day on March 7. Electricity generated from solar has more than doubled from June 7, 2013 when the ISO...
• All-Terrain Extreme Weather Rescue Vehicles Could Save Lives During Natural Disasters Inhabitat (Yesterday) - Designer Phil Pauley has come up with a series of Extreme Weather Rescue Vehicles that could navigate through deep floodwaters and around physical obstacles, unlike conventional trucks and emergency vehicles. The ATVs would be powered by on-board solar arrays and equipped with auxiliary generators...
• Two-dimensional material shows promise for optoelectronics: LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and light detectors ScienceDaily (Yesterday) - Team creates LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and light detectors using novel one-molecule-thick material. Researchers have used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could lead to ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible photovoltaic cells, light...
• New York’s SunShares Program Changes Solar Purchasing CleanTechies (Yesterday) - Last week, Governor Cuomo and NYSERDA announced a new round of innovative NY-Sun programs focused on scaling up solar adoption throughout the Empire State. We’re proud to report that Vote Solar’s GroupEnergy team will be partnering with Sustainable CUNY to administer one of those programs:...
• Atomically thin, flexible, semi-transparent solar cells created ScienceDaily (2 days ago) - A lot of research has been done on graphene recently -- carbon flakes, consisting of only one layer of atoms. As it turns out, there are other materials too which exhibit remarkable properties if they are arranged in a single layer. One of them is...
• Microinverters Front and Center: SolarBridge Closes $42 Million Funding Round CleanTechies (3 days ago) - The microinverter business is heating up. Installers and consumers alike are finding out that microinverter technology provides better return on investment than a string inverter. Using a conventional solar installation, any drop in a module’s performance will reduce the output of every other module in...
• Promising news for producing fuels through artificial photosynthesis ScienceDaily (4 days ago) - Nearly 90-percent of the electrons generated by a semiconductor/cobaloxime hybrid catalyst designed to store solar energy in hydrogen are being stored in their intended target molecules....
• Innovative Mounting System Helps Drive Down Cost of Solar eSolar News (4 days ago) - NORTH ANDOVER, MA.--(eSolarEnergyNews)--In another move to drive down the costs of solar PV, PanelClaw introduces Polar Bear® III, its new flat roof mounting system. The new Polar Bear product takes the best aspects of PanelClaw’s existing Polar Bear®, Grizzly Bear® and Kodiak Bear® flat roof...
• Solar Making Huge Gains, 29% of All New Electricity Capacity eSolar News (4 days ago) - The Economist FORTY-FIVE minutes west of Las Vegas, dejected sinners may encounter a sight to lift their sunken hearts: a sea of 347,000 mirrors, reflecting the rays of the desert sun on to boilers mounted on three 460-foot towers. The Ivanpah solar-thermal plant (pictured), which...
• Smart grid for electric vehicle fleet ScienceDaily (4 days ago) - Being able to charge up to 30 electric cars at once requires some ingenious energy management. Researchers are incorporating a mix of renewables into the design of a smart grid for Germany’s largest charging station....
• Greenwood Biosar Completes Construction of 2.4MW Panama Solar Plant eSolar News (5 days ago) - NEW YORK, NY--(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Greenwood Biosar, a joint venture between Greenwood Energy and Biosar formed to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, has completed design and construction of a 2.4-megawatt (MW) solar PV project in Panama's Herrera Province for Enel...
• SunEdison Partners with GRID Alternatives to Launch National Women in Solar Initiative eSolar News (5 days ago) - BELMONT, CA--(eSolarEnergyNews)-- SunEdison and the SunEdison Foundation today announced a $1.2 million philanthropic partnership with GRID Alternatives, the nation's largest non-profit solar installer. Together the organizations are launching a National Women in Solar Initiative with the goal of increasing the number of women in the...
• Canadian Solar Receives C$48 Million Financing from Manulife eSolar News (5 days ago) - GUELPH, ONTARIO --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Canadian Solar, one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that Manufacturer's Life Insurance Company has agreed to provide C$48 million in construction and term financing to Canadian Solar for the Company's Val Caron solar power project located in Ontario,...
• Soligent Begins Distributing Q CELLS Solar Modules eSolar News (5 days ago) - SAN FRANCISCO, CA --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Soligent, the largest and most comprehensive full service solar energy distributor in the Americas, and Hanwha Q CELLS USA (Q CELLS) today announced that Soligent will begin carrying Q CELLS solar modules effective immediately. Under the terms of the agreement, Q...
• Bright Spaces Shines Its Green Light on a New Solar Concept eSolar News (5 days ago) - ATLANTA, GA--(eSolarEnergyNews)--The Bright Spaces program, launched by solar panel development and installation company Creative Solar USA, brings a unique concept to commercial customers in Georgia. Bright Spaces is a solar development program designed to leverage local utility provider’s, such as Georgia Power and Tennessee Valley...
• Ghana is Adding a Whopping 600 Megawatts of Solar to its National Power Grid Inhabitat (5 days ago) - Image of solar panels / Shutterstock Ghana is jumping into the solar power world with a big splash with plans to build over 600 megawatts worth of solar power parks. Better still, the companies working with Ghana – the Sustainable Equities Group, International Solar Utilities...
• The Wild West of Solar Renewable Energy Credits CleanTechies (6 days ago) - The closing of the doors last week at a mid-Atlantic states solar installer highlights the uncertainty of the photovoltaic market and brings to the fore the vagrancies of renewable energy credits (RECs) and in particular solar renewable energy credits (SRECs). Renewable energy credits are tradable,...
• Hanwha SolarOne Sponsors PV Modules for Zanzibar Project eSolar News (6 days ago) - ISMANING, GERMANY--(eSolarEnergyNews)--Hanwha SolarOne, a global leading photovoltaic provider of high-quality, cost competitive solar photovoltaic modules, today announced that it has donated solar modules to the Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar, Tanzania for a 75 kW rooftop installation, which was officially inaugurated on...
• Sunnova Installers Receive 3.4% Boost in Energy Yield by Using Tigo Energy Technology eSolar News (6 days ago) - LOS GATOS, CA.--(eSolarEnergyNews)--Tigo Energy, the Smart Module market leader, announced today that Sunnova Energy Corporation has added a 3.4% energy credit for installers using Tigo Energy technology into its solar quote tool. Installers using smart solar modules optimized by Tigo Energy will receive additional revenue...
• CBD Energy Limited to Develop Rooftop Solar Installations in 22 UK Schools eSolar News (6 days ago) - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(eSolarEnergyNews)--CBD Energy Limited today confirmed the company has secured the rights to develop 1.25MWp (megawatt-peak) of rooftop solar installations at 22 schools located throughout the UK. This is the second of a portfolio of clean energy assets being developed by CBD Energy in the...
• OnForce Solar Awarded Additional Funding by NYSERDA for Large-Scale Solar Projects eSolar News (6 days ago) - NEW YORK, NY--(eSolarEnergyNews)--OnForce Solar, a leading provider of solar electric systems, announced today that the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded the company additional funding to develop and construct large-scale commercial solar projects in New York State under Governor Cuomo’s...
• ReneSola Provides High-Efficiency Modules to 11.7MW Solar Project in Italy eSolar News (6 days ago) - JIASHAN, CHINA,--(eSolarEnergyNews)-- ReneSola, a leading brand and technology provider of solar photovoltaic products, today announced it has delivered approximately 45,900 of its high-efficiency modules to the Photovoltaic Plant of Ferrara Aranova project, a 11.7MW ground-mounted solar project in Italy developed by Tozzi Sud S.p.A., an...
• Artificial photosynthesis: Key intermediate steps in artificial photosynthesis reaction identified ScienceDaily (6 days ago) - The first direct, temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in water oxidation using cobalt oxide, an Earth-abundant solid catalyst, revealed kinetic bottlenecks whose elimination would help boost the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis systems....
• Solar power: Making it less expensive and more efficient ScienceDaily (6 days ago) - Researchers are reporting early results on a way to make solar-powered panels in lights, calculators and roofs lighter, less expensive, more flexible (therefore less breakable) and more efficient....
• Transparent, color solar cells fuse energy, beauty ScienceDaily (6 days ago) - Colorful, see-through solar cells could one day be used to make stained-glass windows, decorations and even shades that turn the sun's energy into electricity....
• Clearlake Oaks County Water District to Save $900,000 Signing Solar PPA With HelioPower eSolar News (7 days ago) - MURRIETA, CA --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- With a clever bit of planning, the Clearlake Oaks County Water District turned its solar power system from HelioPower into a local stimulus program of sorts. HelioPower is installing a 220 kW solar power system at one of the Water District’s treatment...

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