Photovoltaic Market to Change Soon

It happened at the 23rd European Conference and Exhibition on Photovoltaic Solar Energy, an event promoted by the European Commission and held in Valencia in early September. There, experts from some thirty-first level (“think tank”), from around the world, discussed in closed session on trends in major markets of the world FV. These are some [...]

Set The Temperature In A Solar Tube

Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation Labs has announced that they have developed the most efficient solar energy technology in the world. Although only in the state of a prototype SEHC has developed ways to concentrate sunlight to levels 5,000 times greater than it would normally fall on the Earth’s surface.
By focusing the light through a tube [...]

Sharp Combines LED lights to build an Earthquake Sensor

Sharp will introduce two models of solar-powered LED street lights that combine Sharp’s proprietary solar photovoltaic modules and high-intensity, long-life white LEDs for the Japanese market on August 21, 2008.
The Sharp LN-LW3A1 Solar-Powered LED Street Light delivers brightness at the industry’s highest level rivaling the light output from a regular 32-W fluorescent security light (which [...]

New Solar Thermal Factory Opened in Las Vegas, Triples Worldwide Manufacturing Capacity

While Ausra CEO Robert Fishman was far from excited yesterday about the BLM solar moratorium policy, he was perfectly happy to tout his company’s new 130,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Las Vegas.
“This is a crossover point for this industry. Ausra’s factory is accelerating Nevada’s and America’s solar future by tripling worldwide manufacturing capacity, relieving [...]

Tijuana Leads Solar Panels Development

Baja California is placed at the national forefront in the field of clean energy generation after the inauguration on Thursday of the production area of solar panels from the Japanese company Kyocera in Tijuana.
The Secretary for Economic Development of the State Government, Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda, reported that an investment of $ 30 million the company [...]

MOTOROLA to Install Solar Kiosques for Tepelphones in Uganda

While cellular phone use has exploded even in the world’s poorest countries, phone companies are finding that reliable electricity is a major barrier to expansion into new markets in regions like Africa. Of course a cellphone is no good if you can’t charge the battery with electricity, and in many places where the electricity grid [...]

Solaria Reports 5.54 Million In Earnings, 9 Times Less Than 2007

Solaria, a company specializing in solar power, has earned 5.45 million Euros in 2008, almost nine times less than the net profit earned in 2007 and rose to 48.4 million, according to the company has informed the National Commission Securities Market (CNMV).
According to this statement the net profit fall was due to decline in [...]

Bulgarian Company Intends To Produce Oil Through Solar Energy

Torrevieja has become the first Spanish city to host the presentation of an important scientific and technical progress originated in Bulgaria. This is a project to concentrate solar energy through a special lens that would enable cheaper electricity, heat to 300 degrees Celsius and hydrogen.
This is to maximize the solar energy, making it more [...]

First Solar Does Not Escape The Crashes On Wall Street

The crisis in the stock has also reached fully to renewable energy, and First Solar is no exception. The so-called, in the boom in the industry the ‘google green’ slumps 20% today on Wall Steret, warning that the situation in the solar energy industry has never been so difficult.
The stock market boom featuring renewable energy [...]

New Solar Power Plant In Dominican Republic

Sunovia Energy Technologies signed an agreement with the Dominican Republic to install the first solar power plant in that Caribbean country.
Through a statement released by the executive director of Sunovia Energy Technologies, Carl Smith, the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre, was announced interest Dominican President Leonel Fernández, to resolve the difficulties of energy generation [...]