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Evergreen Solar Photovoltaic Panels Provide Power For Electric Car Recharging

Evergreen Solar has announced that its panels are being used to provide the electricity for a new electric vehicle battery recharging station in a high-traffic area in Frankfurt, Germany

16 Apr 2009

First Solar to Build 48 Megawatt Photovoltaic Power Plant

First Solar announced it has executed an agreement to build a 48 megawatt (MW) AC ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) power plant for Sempra Generation

16 Apr 2009

Veeco Experts to Appear at Solar Industry Events and Tradeshows

Veeco Instruments announced today that three of its technology experts will make presentations at worldwide solar industry events and tradeshows in May 2009

15 Apr 2009

CHINT Solar to Get Gases For Building Solar Panels From Air Products

Air Products today announced it has signed a gas supply contract to provide bulk and specialty gases to CHINT Solar at its new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility

15 Apr 2009

Final Touches Being Made on Solar Powered Boat

An academic and a team of post graduate students at the University of Southampton are making final preparations to their solar-powered boat ahead of a major engineering competition

15 Apr 2009

Green Jobs Boom Expected as Pennsylvania Works to Attract Solar Energy Manufacturers

Pennsylvania's efforts to attract solar energy manufacturers to the state, spur an increase in projects that harness the sun's power, and create green collar jobs took a major step forward today

14 Apr 2009

Ozone Layer Recovery to be Uneven Duet o Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation

Earth's ozone layer should eventually recover from the destruction caused by the use of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting chemicals. But new research suggests the ozone layer of the future is unlikely to look much like the past because greenhouse gases are changing the dynamics of the atmosphere

14 Apr 2009

The Mathematics of Climate Change

Kenneth Golden, an expert in mathematical models of percolation in sea ice, is a leader in the international effort to model polar climate dynamics and has brought a new level of rigor and precision to this area of research. A forthcoming article describes the mathematics he and collaborators have developed to study sea ice

13 Apr 2009

Solar and Environmental Technologies Corp. Wins Award For "Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Development"

On March 20th, Solar and Environmental Technologies Corp. (Solar - ETC) received the First Place Award for "Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Development" at the CleanEquity Monaco 2009 Emergi...

13 Apr 2009

Cytec and IMEC Team Up to Develop Commercially Viable Organic Solar Cells

Industries Inc and IMEC will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime

13 Apr 2009