Wind Energy Market Top Ratings

Leading companies in the U.S. wind energy market maintained their top positions in several categories     more...

Thin-film and Mono-Crystalline Solar Modules Manufacture Technologies in ASP

Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) has increased the number of products that it plans to offer from its previously announced SolarFab project in Lake Mary, Florida. Products will now include not only thin film, but also mono-crystalline solar photovoltaic modules     more...

A 4.7MW Rooftop PV facility in Italy

Trina Solar Limited announced the completion of a 4.7-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) facility developed by ErgyCapital at the end of February, 2009. Trina Solar was the sole supplier of PV modules that were used on the rooftop installation by ErgyCapital. The project, the largest rooftop PV installation in Italy     more...

202-MW Wind Power Project by Iberdrola in Texas

Texas leads the nation in producing wind power, now newest 202-megawatt (MW) Penascal Wind Power Project developed by Iberdrola Renewables     more...

Solar-Powered City to Be Built

Developer Kitson & Partners announced a landmark agreement with Florida Power & Light (FPL) to build 75-megawatt solar PV power plants at Babcock Ranch, Florida, effectively making it the world's first city powered by solar energy.     more...

Investments in Arizona Solar Institute fuses Knowledge and Industry

Science Foundation Arizona has announced solar US $4 million investments and the opening of the Solar Technology Institute (STI) to advance Arizona's renewable energy leadership.     more...

Ukrainian-Japanese collaboration in Power Industry

On April 21, 2009 Prime minister of Ukraine Julia Timoshenko conducted the conference on the questions of Ukrainian-Japanese collaboration in industry of technologies and met with leaders of the Japanese corporations of «Soumitomo» and «Mitsubishi heavy industries»,     more...

Excitons work in silicon nanowires

In all the approaches the McGehee lab from StanfordUniversity has taken, the idea has been that when sunlight strikes an absorbing material in a solar panel, it will release a pair of electrically charged particles collectively known as an “exciton.     more...

How fast is ultrafast?

Assistant Professor Aaron Lindenberg’s subjects are the individual molecules and atoms that vibrate and zip through the hustle and flow of matter as it changes. Their size is so small and their motion so fast that he needs quite simply the fastest and sharpest camera on Earth. He’ll have exactly that when an incredibly powerful x-ray beam known as the Linac Coherent Light Source     more...

Long-term financing to support exports of PV solar modules

Ex-Im Bank has approved a total of US $61 million in long-term financing to support exports of PVsolar modules by SolarWorld Industries America to Gochang Solar Park Co. Ltd. of Seoul,     more...