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CSP Today: Interview with Anoop Mathur from Terrafore

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-30T04:00:00Z - Ahead of the First Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit India, CSP Today catches up with Anoop Mathur from Terrafore, who will be speaking at the Summit.

US Company Sending Wind Energy Parts To China

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - The Timken Company yesterday announced that it had received a contract worth US$26 million to supply wind turbine products and services to China's Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company, one of the top five wind power equipment manufacturers in the world.

Utility-scale Battery Research Underway

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - What happens when the U.S. government awards DuPont, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bosch, and 3M $1.6 million to develop a longer-lasting, less expensive way to store clean energy? We will soon find out.

Certification Requirements Could Hinder UK Solar Market

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - According to EUPD Research, an organization that is studying the UK PV market, an important aspect of the feed-in tariff (FIT) regulation could stymie growth of the solar market in the UK.

SMA Expands North American Utility-Scale PV Inverter Line

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - SMA America LLC, the U.S.-based subsidiary of global solar technology leader SMA Solar Technology AG, has expanded its U.S. line of utility products with the Sunny Central High Efficiency (HE) line of solar inverters. The new 500 and 630 kilowatt inverters provide integrators, project developers and EPCs with a utility-scale 1000VDC solution that features the industry's best efficiency in the medium voltage interconnection category.

Audio Interview: eIQ Energy Partners with Shoales to Reduce BoS Costs

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - Michael Lamb tells editor Debra Vogler how the company's vBoost technology and its partnership announcement with Shoales will address reduced balance-of-system (BoS) costs.

Audio Interview: The Future of Thin-film Solar Cell Manufacturing, Chris Eberspacher

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - Eberspacher summarizes sessions on thin-film photovoltaics and PV fab management from Intersolar NA 2010.

Free Webcast: Sustainable Transport Policy

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - Wednesday 11 August 2010 17:00 (UK time – GMT +1), 12:00 (EDT), 9:00 (PDT)

The Natural Gas as Bridge Idea

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Outpace Renewables

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - The research and consulting firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reports that subsidies for fossil energies are far outweighing those for renewables. While many governments are putting support behind clean energy, the figures show that renewables are still far behind, reports BNEF.

World's Largest Wind Project is Underway

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - After nearly a decade of delays, ground was officially broken on the world's largest wind project, a 1,550 megawatt (MW) farm located in Tehachapi Pass, California. The project, which is being developed near the first large-scale wind farms installed in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, is a powerful illustration of the growing size and scope of modern wind projects.

U.S. DOE Funds 'Sunlight-to-Fuel' Project

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - The U.S. Department of Energy Announced earlier this month that it would set aside more than $100 million to create an "Energy Innovation Hub" to encourage innovation around producing fuels directly from sunlight.

Enolia Solar Systems to Install 1.5MW of SolarEdge Power Harvesting Systems in Greece, as Part of a New Partnership

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - SolarEdge Technologies, a provider of end-to-end Distributed Solar Power Harvesting and monitoring solutions, is expanding its activity in Greece, announcing a partnership with Enolia Solar Systems SA, a leading Greek company active in the development of PV projects, trading of PV solar equipment and design and implementation of rooftop applications in the rapidly developing PV markets of Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria.

The Only Way Is Up: CSP Builds Up Heat

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - If you're wondering where the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is heading from here, crane your neck and look upward. Forecasts show industry growth climbing steeply from 2010.

BP Oil Spill Gives New Meaning to World Ocean Day

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-29T04:00:00Z - The month of June marks World Environment Day and World Ocean Day, two days whose main purpose is to spread awareness of environmental issues taking place in the world. However, a black cloud hangs over this year's events as thousands of gallons of oil each day are currently gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deep Horizon oilrig that exploded and sank on April 20, 2010.

Nicaraguan communities embrace solar and wind

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Solar Energy International meets industry needs with curriculum update

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-28T04:00:00Z - For 20 years, SEI has been at the forefront of solar PV training.

New scanning probe microscopy techniques for analyzing organic photovoltaic materials and devices

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-28T04:00:00Z - Rajiv GiridharagopaL, Guozheng Shao, David S. Ginger, University of Washington; and Chris Groves, Durham University,discuss the experimental challenges and opportunities associated with two different AFM-based optoelectronic scanning probe techniques, photoconductive AFM (pcAFM) and time-resolved electrostatic force microscopy (trEFM), that have been used help understand how morphology impacts organic photovoltaic (OPV) performance.

Sandia and SunPower Researching Utility-Scale Solar Energy Integration

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-28T04:00:00Z - Sandia National Laboratories and SunPower Corp. announced that they formalized a research agreement in which they will focus on integrating large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems into the grid.

Energy Storage Company Raises $29.5 M

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT 2010-07-28T04:00:00Z - Xtreme Power, a provider of Dynamic Power Resources (DPRs) for utility-scale power management and energy storage systems, announced the close of a $29.5 million financing round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, The Dow Chemical Company through its Venture Capital group and existing investor SAIL Venture Partners.