Latest Solar Power company news
Envision Solar International, Inc. has launched the Quick Service Restaurant (QSRs) initiative featuring Solar Groves® solar parking arrays and CleanCharge™ solar charging stations for parking lots. CleanCharge is the first initiative to bring shade, clean solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations to QSR parking lots.
The Envision Solar CleanCharge vehicle charging system provides restaurants with a Solar Grove, − an array of Solar Trees® − equipped with an electric vehi... [more]
Students from Stanford University in California have developed a cutting-edge design that can increase the efficiency of photovoltaic panels through the use of a new kind of electrodes. This technology won the recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clean Energy Prize. The electrode technology was a product of a team named C3Nano, which was comprised of postgraduate chemical engineering scientists from Stanford. C3Nano competed against 60 other teams from 35 schools.
The electrode techno... [more]
Eliosolar has introduced a new line of Solar Thermal Shade products: Eliosolar Thermal shade Modular Elements (ETME).
Made of recyclable aluminum, ETME contain an integrated invisible thermal solar collector and come in four sizes with standard steel wall anchors and posts in a contemporary industrial design style.
Available as off-the-shelf items for easy ordering and rapid installation, ETME can be assembled into Thermal Shade Structures (Sunshades, Facade Sun Shields, Canopies, Trellis,... [more]
Element Power has successfully secured a €18.5m debt facility for its 3.51MW PV solar project in Alicante, Spain. The 17-year facility was provided by Triodos Bank following Element Power’s acquisition of the project, which commenced operations in August 2008. The project, built by Siliken Energy and comprising Siliken crystalline modules, generates clean renewable power under the Feed In Tariff governed by Spain’s Royal Decree 661/2007.
Fraser Welham, Element Power’s Chief Financial Officer ... [more]
Enecsys Limited has launched the first solar PV grid-connected micro-inverter for both the European and North American markets. A solar PV system based on Enecsys micro-inverters will have improved energy harvest and therefore cut the cost of harvested power by up to 20% over the lifetime of the installation compared with a conventional system using string inverters.
The Enecsys solar micro-inverter is also designed for high reliability operation and to have a life expectancy of at least 2... [more]
Evergreen Solar, Inc. has announced that an 8-megawatt power plant in Neustrelitz, Germany used more than 7 megawatts of panels manufactured by Evergreen Solar. It is Evergreen Solar’s largest installation in company history.
The project, which was designed and installed by IBC SOLAR Invest in cooperation with the city of Neustrelitz, uses approximately 34,000 IBC Polysol String Ribbon 200, 205 VG solar panels made by Evergreen Solar. It will provide enough electricity to power more than 2,60... [more]
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