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Air Force Scientists Develop Flexible Solar Panels for GPS and Other Electronics

Air Force Scientists have developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications and other devices for U.S. soldiers

15 Jul 2009

IMEC Forms New Solar Cell Partnerships

IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers

14 Jul 2009

Applied Materials Shows Strategy For Making Solar Power Affordable for Everyone, Everywhere

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, will showcase its strategy to make solar power affordable for everyone, everywhere, at the Intersolar North America event in San Francisco next week

12 Jul 2009

Suncatcher Solar Power Dishes Unveiled at Sandia

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

12 Jul 2009

Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009

CIGS Solar Panels Cheaper and Use Less Raw Materials Than Traditional Solar Panels

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials

7 Jul 2009

Solar Powered Racing Car Unveiled by Jenson Button at Goodwood Festival of Speed

A solar-powered racing car that cruises at 60mph using the same power as a hairdryer created by students at Cambridge University was unveiled on Sunday by Jenson Button at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

7 Jul 2009