The largest rooftop solar installation in the American Northwest is now online. Portland General Electric (PGE) has a 673,000 square foot installation of 2.4 MW on seven ProLogis warehouses. PGE ranked among the top 10 utilities in the west for …
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Solar Electric power also called photovoltaic, is the term used to describe the conversion of sunlight directly to electricity. The solar cells available today use semiconductor materials. To create useful amount of power, they are wired together in varying numbers to create solar modules (or solar panels). Because the electric grid provides AC power, the systems also include inverters that convert the DC electricity to AC electricity.
Demand for PV inverters continues to boom, according to a report from IMS Research. IMS calculates that 8.3 GW of inverters – worth $2.8 billion – were shipped during 2009. That is a 35% increase in GW terms and 17.9% …
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Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 10 U.S. States recently announced the creation of the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium, dedicated to promoting the development of wind energy on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Salazar said, …
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Bruce Allen is supremely well-qualified to have contibuted to the book’s chapter on photovoltaics. His recent book Reaching the Solar Tipping Point describes the key technologies and applications that are enabling solar energy to become a primary cost-effective energy source. …
The company Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), a leading supplier of solar panel manufacturing equipment, recently commissioned a new survey on solar energy to gauge the public’s current views and knowledge on the subject. Here is what was revealed:
A few hours ago, I met Dr. Kurt Chistienson, whose company Optomec “paints” the thin silver “fingers” onto PV cells – using proprietary technology that makes them as thin as 30 microns – (a considerable advantage over his competitors’ 40 microns …
There are so many great ideas on display at the Intersolar show here in San Francisco that I couldn’t even attempt to list even a small fraction. But I came across a booth yesterday that I thought bore mentioning – …
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From time to time I come across content on other sites that I recommend to 2GreenEnergy readers. Here’s a webinar called “Is There Hope for Solar?” — produced by my new-found friends at The Energy Collective.
For anyone who may be interested, here’s a link to an article Shannon Combs wrote on an apparent breakthrough at the University of Illinois in the use of gallium arsenide in photovoltaics.
