U.S. Bancorp Plans to Invest in Solar, Wind Projects
U.S. Bancorp, the nation´s fifth-largest commercial bank, plans to invest hundreds of millions this year in U.S. renewable energy projects, where the bank sees profit, despite political fallout following the Solyndra...
Duties on China solar would kill jobs, report says
A U.S. solar industry group fighting a rival coalition´s request for steep import duties on Chinese-made solar cells and modules warned in a report on Monday that more than 60,000 U.S. jobs could be lost if such duties were...
A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves. In a few years, Mershin says it’ll be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals, paint the...
03.02.2012
VTA Installs Solar Power Systems at Its Three Bus Yards
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in partnership with SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and Wells Fargo, installed solar parking canopy systems, totaling 2.1 megawatts (MW), at its three bus...
Siemens to Implement U.S. Army´s Largest Solar Photovoltaic System at White Sand
Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center has awarded a $16.8 million task order to implement energy-conserving upgrades, including a 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power generating...
Flexible and in three languages: Vario releases its solar calculator for Android in English, German and Italian
The solar yield calculator app of Vario green energy is now available for Android smartphones. An iPhone version of it already exists. House and roof owners can calculate with the free app on their mobile phone, which yield a photovoltaic power...
Specialist distributor Donauer Solartechnik is opening a branch in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on 1 February. The solar company from Gilching near Munich is a partner in the joint venture with Saleh Ahmed Al Badi, who will direct the Donauer branch...
PROINSO includes SCHOTT Solar modules in its catalogue
PROINSO, a company that supplies modules, inverters, trackers and fixed structures for ground- or roof-mounted PV systems, has added to its catalogue SCHOTT Solar PV solar modules, which will be supplied by all ten PROINSO branches around the world...
TNO Glass Group becomes Celsian Glass & Solar B.V.
The Board of Directors of TNO has announced the transformation of the TNO Glass Group into a private company, named CelSian Glass & Solar B.V., under the umbrella of TNO Bedrijven B.V. This new company has started its activities on 1 January...
Cost-optimised future technologies for the window industry
With exhibits and multimedia applications, Bystronic glass will demonstrate future-oriented machines and solutions for fast window sash glazing, automated window and facade production using ultra-modern warm-edge insulating glasses, cost-optimised...
MECASOLAR delivers 343 MW in trackers and structures in 2011
MECASOLAR, a multinational company that designs, manufactures and supplies solar trackers, fixed structures and foundation screws, delivered 5,169 solar trackers, equivalent to 61.4 MW, and fixed structures for 203 PV solar projects in 2001. Italy,...
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