Global Solar goes back to future with thin film solar
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Blog: Nothing like metal vapor for making solar cells, says Global Solar.
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A new company NRG Dock shows off a general-purpose solar panel and battery to power electronics.
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These solar companies shine a light on their way to fast cash.
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Blog: Google shares its running tab of solar power production since turning on its panels.
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Six local schools will have solar energy systems installed over the next year. The systems are expected to lower utility bills and teach students about renewable energy.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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The European market is hot, so the solar technology company plans to expand there.
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PARIS -- Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe, and limitless energy. A multinational pact signed yesterday may bring that dream a step closer to reality.
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Closely watched start-up Nanosolar ships its first thin-film solar panels on schedule with printing manufacturing process.
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(InfoWorld) - Sharp is planning to double production of solar electricity modules at a factory in Wales, it said Friday. Behind the planned expansion is growing demand for solar energy systems in several European countries including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France. Sharp said long hours of sunlight coupled with electricity buy-back programs, which allow consumers to sell surplus electricity back to the power company, are driving the demand. The company will invest Â¥2.2 billion ($18.2 million) to take annual production to a total of 220 megawatts of panels. The factory in Wrexham began operations in early 2004 and is Sharp's second international solar module production base after a manufacturing plant in the U.S. Sharp's announcement comes on the same day that a major international report is expected to lay theÂ blame for global warmingÂ at the feet of man's actions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)Â reportÂ will be published in Paris later Friday. Companies and consumers are becoming increasing concerned about the issue and some are investing vast sums of money in solar power systems that will likely pay off in the long run through lower power bills. Last year Google said it would build a 9,000-panel generation system to power its Mountain View, California, headquarters. The system will use Sharp panels. Sharp is one of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity. Last year it spent about Â¥3.5 billion increasing production at a factory in Japan to 600 megawatts per year.
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A solar-powered city is about to rise in the Persian Gulf. Why not in the United States?.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Reflective dishes may be the answer to make solar energy competitive with conventional sources of power, Israeli scientists say.
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It sounds crazy, but itâs true! Scientists have developed wearable solar panels that can be sewed into clothing, helping charge music players, mobile phones, light batteriesâ¦ This innovative product is likely to hit the market in three years time.
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The technology could boost LED power, increase solar-panel efficiency and reduce light spillage inside cameras.
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Three decades after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter experimented with solar panels on the White House roof, grim U.N. warnings about climate change may kick-start wider global use of renewable energy.
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In a few weeks, scientists from across the world will gather in the New Mexico desert to compete for one of the strangest and most ambitious technological competitions ever devised. Some researchers will unveil robots, powered by solar panels, which will climb long lengths of cable.
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Researchers have harnessed the light harvesting molecules of spinach and bacteria to make solar cells that could one day be sprayed on many surfaces.