Smart Solar Developing Sun Tracking Tube Solar Panels
Smart Solar International, the innovative solar panel will be adopted especially in tsunami-hit areas along the northern Pacific coast. For the beginning, the device will be launched in Japan in August and by the end of 2014 it will be spread in Asia and the Middle East.
United States' Largest Zero-Net Energy Community To Be Built By UC Davis
The University of California-Davis wants to start the construction of United States' largest zero-net energy community. According to the officials, the UC Davis West Village will be equipped with a 4-megawatt, high efficiency SunPower solar power system and with a great number of innovative energy-efficient technologies.
Renault Installs 60 MW of Solar Power For France Facilities
In order to decrease their carbon footprint and to raise the public awareness that they're actually doing something for the environment besides producing electric cars, Renault has decided to install a 60 MW solar array on its centers in several locations from France.
Solar Powered Ovens Made From Pizza Boxes Ehxibited on NYC Streets
While the green technology might still be a new thing for many, something our mind needs to get adjusted with, some other people already understood that this is their future. Or at least that's what students from 2 high schools in New York proved last week at the Union Square Greenmarket, when they showed up with a couple of green solar powered ovens.
HERIC Topology: How a Brilliant Idea Brought 99% Efficiency For Solar Panel Inverters
Brilliant ideas usually don't need years of hard labor, or at least so it happens most of the time. For example, by implementing a switching trick to a DC to AC current converter used in solar panels, Heribert Schmidt, an electrical engineer (with a doctorate), from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has managed to halve inverter losses, bringing the efficiency to 98 percent.
Wadebridge to Become UK's First Town Powered by Solar Energy
There are towns in the UK which dream of sustaining themselves out of their own production of electricity. Wadebridge in Cornwall is one of them: 10 solar systems installed, 100 more to go! The town has already begun the 2015 race, meaning 15,000 MWh each year. If they manage that, then they become eligible for feed-in tariffs: profitable contracts that buy the clean energy and add it up to the grid at a good price.
SolarReserve Receives Funding for CSP & Molten Salt Energy Storage in Nevada
Besides being very pricey, solar power plants simply discourage by the fact that the sun is not always there when you need it: what happens if you need to switch on the light in your kitchen to drink water at 2 A.M. in the morning? Or on a cloudy day, for that matter?... Thanks to SolarReserve and the Obama administration funding it you may never have to go through that.
New Japanese Homes May Have to Install Rooftop Solar Panels
The Japanese who will want to build up a new home will probably be forced to install solar panels on their rooftops. Naoto Kan, the Japanese Prime Minister, is about to announce this intention at the G8 summit in Deauville, France.
Plants vs Solar Cells: Which is The Most Efficient Energy Converter?
Both solar cells and plants process sunlight one way or the other, but there's a catch: one of them is more efficient. Guided by common sense, we'd say that the plants' billions of years of "experience" in capturing and storing energy will win. Is it so?
Researchers On Their Way to Set Solar Panel Efficiency Record at 95%
The breakthrough comes from the chemical engineer Patrick Pinhero at the University of Missouri, who claims his solar panels are way better than those on the market now: up to 90% more efficiency.
