Sanyo's New 235-Watt Solar Panel Has An Energy-Efficiency Of 21.1%
At the beginning of this month, the European division of Sanyo has officially released its new enhanced HIT solar panel. Dubbed HIT-N235SE10, the new 235 watt solar panel has an energy-efficiency of 21.1%, improving the performance in limited space installations and offering more power generation per square meter.
Rice University Researchers Use Surface Plasmons to Harvest Light From Lasers: Solar Panels May...
Doug Natelson and graduate student Dan Ward, from Rice University, have discovered how to make a light-harvesting antenna from two gold tips separated by a gap only a few nanometers wide. As light source they used a laser, whose rays, once trapped in the gold tips, get concentrated into a tiny space, increasing the light intensity in the gap by a thousand times.
Windrex's Eco-Friendly Hybrid Street Lighting To Be Unveiled At Renewable Energy Expo 2010
Windrex, an expert cooperation in the fields of alternative energy will unveil its new wind-solar hybrid street lighting at the Renewable Energy Expo 2010 in Seoul, Korea.
New Organic Solar PV Technology To Make Solar Cell Installation Easier and Cheaper
The UK environmental group Carbon Trust and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have jointly formed a new company called Eight19 concentrating on the development of new organic photovoltaic (PV) technology that could make the installation of solar cells cheaper and easier.
Organic Solar Cells Greener Than Silicon-Based Ones, Rochester Study Reveals
A recent study, conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology, reveals that the total energy needed to make organic solar cells is less than the one needed to make inorganic solar cells.
SunEdison to Start Construction of 400 MW Solar Power Plants in Korea
SunEdison, a global leader in solar electricity power systems has signed an agreement with a South Korean province (Gyeongsangnam-do) to build solar power plants capable of producing 400 megawatts of clean energy.
Barack Obama Refuses New Solar Panels On The White House
U.S. president Barack Obama has recently refused a proposal to reinstall solar panels on the White House rooftops. The proposal came from Bill McKibben, the founder of a group of environmental activists, who went to Obama in a biodiesel-powered van. Ex-president Jimmy Carter had installed the proposed solar panels on the White House back in 1979. They used to provide heat and were a logo of America's will to free itself from foreign oil.
Solar Cells Featuring Carbon Nanotube Antennas Concentrate Light 100 Times
These days, MIT chemical engineers have come up with a new approach to concentrate solar power by 100 times without needing any lenses, mirrors or anything else than the solar cell itself.
New Stretchable Conductive Material Could Find Uses In Organic/Thin Film Solar Cells
Stretchable solar cells and other flexible electronic devices can celebrate the making of a material developed by three institutions from Germany and Japan called the "silver particle-containing polyurethane base electric wiring."
SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy
Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.
