Just as during Hurricane Katrina solar has come to the rescue for victims of Sandy. Where utilities haven’t been able to reestablish a grid connection to communities ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey, The Solar Sandy Project has been able to provide power for essential services...
The solar value chain, meaning its ecosystem, begins with raw material suppliers, winds its way through equipment and consumable suppliers, to ingot, wafer, cell technology manufacturers to module assemblers (most cell manufacturers also assemble modules), to demand side participants (system integrators,...
Chinese solar module manufacturer Phono Solar has launched what it claims is Japan’s first natural disaster insurance cover for solar installations.
Phono solar has released a special insurance product for the Japanese market. The aspiring module manufacturer is guaranteeing that all of its products...
What gift can you give to the solar industry person who has everything except a succinct history of Germany’s path to solar FiT success? Or perhaps you’d like to give some inspiration to the solar or climate change activist spending their Christmas vacation chained to a Keystone XL pipeline dump...
Struggling solar panel maker Yingli (NYSE: YGE) is trying the good news-bad news approach to distract investors from its latest downbeat earnings, announcing its biggest-ever new order on the same day it released its dismal third-quarter results. Based on shareholder reaction, the approach has...
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On Tuesday the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) took a big step forward to encourage more solar power in the state. The PSC acts on behalf of telecommunications, electric power, and natural gas consumers in Georgia and ensures safety, reliability, and affordability. Georgia...
The multinational company PROINSO has donated 10kW solar modules and a 10kW hybrid inverter INGECON Hybrid donated by the company Ingeteam, for a PV-diesel hybrid energy system to be installed at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), based in Mae Sot, Thailand. The new system will combine a PV solar...
Upsolar has announced its product portfolio demonstrated exceptional resistance to potential induced degradation (PID) according to specifications set forth by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Rigorous module testing conducted by the Institute of Industrial Certification for Mechanics...
A deal to supply a 200-megawatt solar plant in Southern California marks a major breakthrough for China’s Yingli Solar.
Yingli has been doing business in the United States for several years, but just started establishing itself in the utility-scale solar sector in 2011, said Matthew Sachs, Yingli...
In an attempt capture more of the solar spectrum, MIT researchers are looking at a new class of so-called ultrastrength materials to create a kind of solar energy funnel to produce electricity using elastic strain. The researchers published their work in Nature Photonics this week.
Usually a photovoltaic...
