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Hoku Solar and Suntech Power Complete Solar Installation for One of Hawaii's Largest Beverage Distributors
KAPOLEI, Hawaii and SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Hoku Solar, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoku Scientific, Inc. and designer, engineer and installer of photovoltaic (PV) power systems, and Suntech Power Holdings...
Forecast for Solar Stocks? Partly Sunny
SO HERE'S THE dilemma about solar stocks. For a host of reasons, the industry is going mainstream. Sunshine is free and nearly limitless. It creates no greenhouse...
The Concept Behind Solar Panels
Solar panels are devices made to convert solar energy into either electricity or heat. While most think of it as new technology, the basic concept has already been in use since around a hundred years ago to heat water in...
SunPower Has Profit on Surging Solar Panel Sales (Update1)
By Christopher Martin July 17 (Bloomberg) -- SunPower Corp., the second-biggest U.S. solar cell maker, said it had a second-quarter profit amid rising sales of its photovoltaic systems and absent acquisition costs from a year...
First Solar Announces Two California Solar Projects with Southern California Edison
- First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) announced today that Southern California Edison (SCE) has selected First Solar to engineer and supply the PV power plant system for a 2 megawatt project to be installed on the roof of a commercial...
Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform for Energy Intelligence
SAN JOSE, CA /PRNewswire/ -- , a market leader in monitoring and reporting services for distributed energy systems, announced the release of Fat Spaniel Insight Platform, the 'world's first open intelligence platform for building, sharing,...
Escondido, CA, USA: enXco Sign 900 kW Power Purchase Agreement
enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, has been contracted to develop, construct, own and operate a first phase 900kW solar photovoltaic array in an agreement with Recycling Technology Development LLC, owner of the site operated by its...
Florida regulators approve FP&L solar cost recovery
Boston (Platts)--15Jul2008 The Florida Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved Florida Power & Light's plan to recover through its environmental cost-recovery clause the cost of three solar-energy projects totaling 110...
United States: Firm picked to install SF solar power system td
United States: Firm picked to install SF solar power system Description: The city of San Francisco upped its commitment to solar power, choosing a local firm to build what will be the country's third-largest solar photovoltaic...
Solar industry's rapid growth leaves shortage in work force
The solar industry has been vocal about how the shortage of trained installers hurts business. Community colleges have begun addressing that problem, but a new study indicates that there could be an equally great need for programs that...
SunPower to build new plant in Malaysia
NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - SunPower Corp (SPWR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it would build a new photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing plant in Malaysia that will be capable of producing more than 1,000 megawatts of cells...
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United States: Energy Innovations launches RayTracker GC Solar Solution Description: Energy Innovations Inc. has announced the immediate availability of RayTracker GC, a single-axis solar tracker for ground-mount and carport-mount...
Orange County Convention Center Design Build Solar Photovoltaic Demonstration Center
Orange County Convention Center Design Build Solar Photovoltaic Demonstration Center Description: Request for Proposals for Providing Orange County Convention Center Design Build Solar Photovoltaic Demonstration Center Location: United...
United States: OptiSolar Planning World's Largest Photovoltaic Plant tr class="
United States: OptiSolar Planning World's Largest Photovoltaic Plant Description: Utility-scale, thin-film solar manufacturer OptiSolar just released plans to create the largest solar photovoltaic farm in the...
2nd German solar firm setting up in area
(The Arizona Daily Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Another German company in the solar-energy industry is making a home in...
Corporations Seriously Looking at Alternative Energy
Recently when asked 'What is the best currency in the world to own right now?', billionaire Warren Buffet replied, 'Not the u.S. dollar.' It was recently reported that supermodel Gisele Bundchen refused to be paid in...
CIGS companies eye building-integrated photovoltaics
AUSTIN, Texas--"It's like a great big grilled cheese sandwich machine." That's how solar power company HelioVolt's vice president of marketing and sales, John Langdon, describes the company's pilot line for CIGS thin-film photovoltaics, a...
EMCOR Group, Inc. Subsidiary Begins Work on Large Solar Installation in Pacific Northwest
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500(R) leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses, announced that its subsidiary...
Photovoltaics follow Moore's Law
The price per watt of a photovoltaic module has been decreasing at a remarkably steady 6% a year for the last 25 years-- despite waivering levels of R...
Ascent Solar prices offering at $14 a share
Denver Business Journal Print Article Email Article Reprints RSS Feeds Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. priced a public offering of its stock at $14 a share, the Littleton company said...