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Department of Transportation Gives Grant For Developing Roads That Make Solar Electricity

Solar Roadways today announced that it has been awarded a DOT contract that will enable them to prototype the first ever Solar Road Panel

10 Sep 2009

Dow Corning Makes Solar Cell Encapsulant Technology Commercially Available

Dow Corning Corp. has announced the commercial availability of a breakthrough solar cell encapsulation technology that improves performance and effectively lowers the cost per kilowatt-hour of solar power

10 Sep 2009

PGE Grant Awarded to OIT for Student Renewable Solar Energy Project

The Oregon Institute of Technology junior received a $9,000 grant from Portland General Electric to design and implement a monitoring system for a combined solar and wind power installation for the high school

10 Sep 2009

Crisis to Hot Solar Power Companies in 2010

Solar equipment companies will feel the impact of a looming solar industry crisis in 2010 according to the report Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, published by The Information Network

9 Sep 2009

Burger King Testing Way of Making Electricity from Moving Cars

New Energy Technologies, a next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer, today announced that engineers have successfully conducted the first-ever durability field-tests of the Company’s prototyped MotionPower™ technology for generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks

9 Sep 2009

BASF To Showcase Solar Power Products at European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition

From September 21 - 24, BASF will be presenting its range of innovative products for the solar industry at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) in Hamburg, Germany

9 Sep 2009

Electronics Able to be Run Using Electricity Generated by Trees

You've heard about flower power. What about tree power? It turns out that it's there, in small but measurable quantities. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run an electronic circuit

9 Sep 2009

Next Generation Solar Cell Research at UQ Boosted With $2 Million Grant

University of Queensland researchers have received almost $2 million from the Queensland Government to lead an international alliance working on the next generation of solar cells

7 Sep 2009

Thin Films Have Strong Future in Solar Cells

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM)

7 Sep 2009

Construction to Begin on America's First Net Zero Energy House Powered by Solar and a Fuel Cell

A team of experts who have assembled the technology to build America's first Net Zero Energy house to be powered by solar energy and a hydrogen fuel cell will break ground and begin construction of the energy independent house of the future

7 Sep 2009