Aqua Pennsylvania, a company dealing in water treatment business, has inaugurated its largest solar farm at its utility. The $6.5 million, 1.8 MW solar project offers electricity to Aqua Pennsylvania’s largest water treatment facility, the Pickering plant.
Solar Junction, a company that develops high efficient multi-junction solar cells, has declared that the Department of Energy (DOE) has granted a SUNPATH award to the company.
PcPools, a company that supplies pool equipment, has confirmed that it has become an authorized dealer for FAFCO, a solar pool instrument producer in the US. The solar pool heaters of FAFCO will now be distributed by PcPools. FAFCO is renowned for providing advanced solar pool equipment.
Walmart, a retail chain store, has declared that it has partnered with SolarCity, a solar power system installer, to construct six solar projects at its retail stores in Colorado. The project marks the 100th solar power installation for the company in the US and brings it closer to its objective of utilizing 100% renewable energy across all its stores.
AREVA Solar, a concentrated solar power (CSP) solution provider, has announced the construction of the largest CSP plant in Asia. The project is to be built at Rajasthan in India.
IKEA, a retailer for home furnishings, has installed a solar energy system at its Paramus, New Jersey retail store. The 1063 kW system consists of 132000 square-foot solar array, which is made up of 4,620 panels.
Three companies including Kyocera, Mizuho Corporate Bank and IHI have declared that they have concluded a basic contract to build a 70 MW solar plant at southern Japan and to find a business model for solar power production.
Nanomarkets, an industrial analysis firm, has included a report titled, Dye Sensitized Cell Markets – 2012, Nano-531, in its publication that will be released in April 22, 2012.
A doctoral student of Kansas University, Ayomi Perera has developed greener dye-sensitized solar cells using a bacterium. Dye-sensitized solar cells usually use a dye for producing energy from sunlight. Perera, under the guidance of Prof. Stefan Bossmann, Department of Chemistry, has used a dye with low toxicity to obtain an environment-friendly solar cell.
The 200 MW, two-tower Saguache Solar Energy Project of Solar Reserve has been environmentally approved, which demonstrates that the capacity of CSP is steadily rising in 2012.
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