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Pacific Power Management Completed Installation of 500kW DC Solar Electric System for UFP

Pacific Power Management, LLC, announced today that they have completed the design and installation of a 500 kilowatt DC solar electric system for Universal Forest Products (UFP) in Thornton, Calif. The $4.4 million project, which qualified for a $1.1 million solar rebate from Pacific Gas and Electric Company, was dedicated on Wednesday, August 6.

12 Aug 2008

Secret of Less Costly Solar Power

BioSolar, Inc. surprised attendees at today's SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy in San Diego by revealing that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company's proprietary BioBacksheet(TM), a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar cells.

12 Aug 2008

Applied Materials Signs Contract With Green Energy Technology to Support Solar Module Production

Applied Materials announced today that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing. Through its SunFab Performance Service program, the most comprehensive service offering in the solar industry

12 Aug 2008

Direct Formation of Furan Based Biofuels from Cellulose

Researchers have developed an interesting new method for the direct conversion of cellulose into furan-based biofuels

10 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Being Used to Make Antennas That Collect Heat and Produce Electricity

Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources

10 Aug 2008

MIT Named One of the Top 25 Environmentally Responsible Schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

MIT has been named one of the top 25 environmentally responsible schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

7 Aug 2008

Honeycomb Material Structure Key to New Generation of Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are one of the most touted new energy technologies. New materials developments are about to make fuel cells even better

6 Aug 2008

Kawneer Launches Website to Promote Sustainable Building Materials

As an expression of its long-term commitment to sustainability, Kawneer Company, Inc., the leading manufacturer of architectural aluminum building products and systems for commercial construction, has launched Kawneergreen.com

5 Aug 2008

Super Efficient Solar Cells Will Absorb So Much Light They Will Look Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently

5 Aug 2008

Future Solar Cells May Look Totally Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008