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Chromasun and SunWater Solar Install MCT Rooftop Demo System

The MCT unit incorporates a flat sheet type solar heat collector designed to realize nearly 25 times of solar heat intensity by utilizing reflective type of aluminum mirrors that are light in weight and manufactured by Alanod solar.

14 Sep 2010

SunPower Receives $1.8 Million Grant from CPUC for Solar PV Energy Storage Research

SunPower Corp. has received a $1.8-million grant from the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) towards enabling the solar energy company to conduct research in the field of PV (photovoltaic) energy storage for large-scale commercial applications.

14 Sep 2010

Ormat Joins Solar Millennium in Tender for Ashalim Solar Thermal Plant

Ormat Technologies Inc. has announced that the company’s Israeli arm Ormat Systems Ltd. has entered into an MoU with the company Solar Millennium AG for forming a consortium towards participating in a tender for developing, constructing and operating a solar thermal energy plant located in Ashalim, Israel, with an overall 120 MW capacity, approximately.

14 Sep 2010

SunEdison Inks MOU for Solar Projects in Korea

SunEdison has signed an MOU with Korea’s provincial government towards establishing solar energy projects with an overall power generation capacity of 400 MW.

14 Sep 2010

Global Solar Launches Flexible PowerFLEX BIPV Solar Module

Global Solar Energy Inc. has launched a flexible BIPV (building integrated photovoltaic) solar module termed as the PowerFLEX BIPV.

14 Sep 2010

ATI Energia Completes Installation of Solar PV System in Florida

ATI Energia has completed the installation of its first solar PV system in Bartow, Florida for the Madrid Engineering Group.

14 Sep 2010

DEP PA Arranges Solar Tour to Introduce Novel Solar Technologies

Department of Environmental Protection of Pennsylvania has plans to organize tours to solar facilities that are situated in Northeast Pennsylvania. John Hanger, Secretary of Department of Environmental Protection, said that the tours were mainly arranged to showcase the solar industry in Pennsylvania.

14 Sep 2010

Corning’s Specialty Glass With Micromorph Technology Delivers 11.9% Efficiency

Corning Photovoltaic Glass Technologies and Oerlikon Solar have declared the 11.9% stable solar conversion competence achieved in a research -size silicon tandem photovoltaic cell.

14 Sep 2010

Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal Systems Gain Popularity Due to Versatile Usage

Solar energy is normally understood as reining Sun’s energy by using photovoltaic panels and change a part of its radiation into electric power and such solar systems does not normally utilize the thermal energy of the radiation.

13 Sep 2010

Honeywell Introduces PowerShield PV270 to Increase the Performance of Backsheets

The PowerShield line of backsheets manufactured by the company will now include PowerShield PV270, that is 30% lighter in weight than most of the conventional backing systems utilized in solar module while it continue to offer similar level security and insulation offered by conventional backing materials.

13 Sep 2010