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China firms knock US duties on solar products

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese firms have accused the United States of setting up trade barriers after Washington slapped duties on their solar products in the latest trade row betwee...

New Quasi-mono Solar Modules Provide More Power per Square Meter

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

In a move to better serve its commercial and large scale utility market customers requiring higher solar power generation, Aide Solar has announced the release ...

SolarWorld GT Visits Florida Solar Energy Center on Driving Tour around Globe

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

A solar-powered car sponsored by SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer for more than 35 years, will visit the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), a re...

Solar3D's New Tests Reveal Game Changing Solar Cell

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

Solar3D has announced that it has completed a detailed simulation analysis comparing its breakthrough solar cell with conventional solar cells. The results reve...

SoloPower's Flexible CIGS Modules Breaks Barriers

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

SoloPower says its next generation panel has achieved an aperture area efficiency of 13.4%. This, says the firm, is a record for flexible CIGS based modules. Th...

China plays down US trade row over solar products

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

China Wednesday sought to defuse a trade row with the United States after the latter imposed duties on Chinese solar products, saying it would not hurt ties, ev...

NREL Develop 'Invisible Wires' for Transporting Electricity on SolarWindow

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

New Energy Technologies, Inc., a developer of innovative technologies for generating sustainable electricity, announces that Company and NREL scientists collabo...

US sets duties on Chinese solar cells

Mar 20, 2012 (AFP)

The US set duties on imported solar cells from China on Tuesday, after investigating complaints from US competitors that Beijing provides manufacturers signific...

KYOCERA Supplies Solar Modules for England's First Zero Carbon Church

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Kyocera has announced that the company has supplied its solar modules for a flagship project for renovating old buildings using solar energy at the roughly 900-...

NextEra Energy Resources Completes Acquisition of Ontario Solar Projects from First Solar

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

NextEra Energy Resources and First Solar have announced the completion of NextEra Energy Resources' acquisition of two solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling...

Intersolar Europe 2012 Spotlights Large-Scale Photovoltaics

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Newly installed photovoltaic capacity reached all-time record levels in 2011, and PV plants with an output of over 200 kilowatt peak (kWp) occupy a rapidly grow...

Solar Thermal Use Heats Up in Colder Climes

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

Many people associate solar energy with hot regions like Arizona and Southern California. However, solar thermal water heating (SWH) can be used by families and...

Suntech Sets World Record 20.3% Efficiency for Pluto Cell Technology

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

Suntech Power Holdings has announced that its industry-leading Pluto cell technology set a world record 20.3% efficiency for a production cell using standard co...

OCI Solar Powers Up New Jersey Solar Project

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

OCI Solar Power has announced the completion of its first solar plant in Vineland, New Jersey. The solar facility, Vineland Solar IV, developed on 38 acres on D...

Clean Power Research Brightens Future of PV Grid Integration

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

In a third round of funding from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Clean Power Researchwill receive a grant of approximately $850,000 from the ...

Ecobuild 2012: Suntech Ramps up Power

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

Suntech Power Holdings ramps-up module efficiency. At Ecobuild 2012 Suntech presents the first of a whole series of modules with improved efficiency. Suntech's ...

SANYO Solar is to Present Their New Look as Panasonic Solar at Ecobuild

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

SANYO Component Europe is very pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at this year's Ecobuild, the world's biggest event for sustainable design, constru...

The Heroes of Solar

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

When it comes to business, where are the commemorative plaques to the ones that sweat, labored, and innovated to help the small guys? In a world where big busin...

Tamil Nadu's new solar energy policy to add 3,000 MW

Mar 13, 2012 (IANS)

Tamil Nadu will soon come out with a new policy on solar power to generate 3,000 MW by 2015-16, Natham R Viswanathan, minister for non-conventional energy devel...

Calif. bill would boost renewable energy

Mar 12, 2012 (UPI)

A bill in California would allow cities to designate areas as renewable energy zones and redirect property taxes to renewable energy projects, its sponsor says....