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Seat Brisa - A solar powered car sails in for leisure drive

Now, an air conditioner that runs on solar power (New Kerala)

Reduce Your Electricity Bills With Solar Energy System

ITC passes, the solar industry celebrates!

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Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon

Scientists have developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells. They have produced tandem dye-sensitized solar cells with a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency compared with previously reported tandem dye-sensitized solar cells.

Solarmer's 7.9% Effcient Plastic Solar Cell NREL Certified

Solarmer Energy Inc. has received word that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has certified its plastic solar panel efficiency at 7.9%. The company started to develop plastic solar panels as part of emerging organic photovoltaic industry in 2006.

What is solar power? (Crikey)

As Australia attempts to plan a future powered by renewable energy, solar power is one the most talked-about possibilities. But could Australia actually be 100% solar powered? Evan Beaver takes a look.

Personalizing Solar Power

Researchers are hoping to improve solar energy installations by coupling a solar panel to an efficient hydrolysis unit that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. Daniel Nocera of MIT says the approach could lead to personal solar power units that could get many houses off the grid.

Ontario Green Energy Act Could Create CAN $4.5B Market

A detailed analysis of the business case for power generators, transmitters and local distribution companies following the introduction and enactment of Ontario's Green Energy Act, finds the act has the potential to create significant value.

Solar Power Generator

For last several decades the world climate has been changing faster and faster. For last fifty years average temperature of surface in the world has increased more than on 0.7 degrees Celsius. This caused such phenomena as, for instance, decreasing of Arctic Ice` amounts on 2.7% every decade. In the end of 20th century, beginning [...]

Mitsubishi Supplies Solar Panels to 3-MW Roof Top Installation

Mitsubishi Electric has completed a 2.9-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic installation for Coop's new CNNA-Prato logistic center in Prato, Italy. Of the 15,710 lead-free solder PV modules used for the 2,906-kilowatt (kW) system, 15,650 modules have been installed on the warehouse roof, covering a surface of 21,000 square meters, equivalent to 5 soccer fields.

Chinese Solar Panel Firm to Open Plant in Arizona

The solar panel manufacturer, the first Chinese solar company to build a plant in the United States, will initially hire 75 workers.

Solar energy sticks its toe in the water in South Texas (The Brownsville Herald)

In a place as sun-drenched as South Texas, youd think solar power would have already caught fire. The fact is solar has been slow to catch on here, though lately it seems to be gaining a toehold.

Moving Company Cost In Californiarnia: Solar Energy for your New House

Solar power is a power to reckon with in the world of environmentalism. After all solar energy is confirmed to have the potential to stabilize and guard nature. Environmentalism is interested with the preservation of nature and development of the same. People in all countries, and from all walks of life, are currently fighting to [...]