British Firm Unveils EV-Charging Parking Spot
There has been plenty of interest in all-electric vehicles, but comparatively little attention paid to the infrastructure required to charge them. ( ... days?) Now Romag, a specialty photovoltaic cell manufacturer, has unveiled the PowerPark, a parking station with built-in solar cells that can charge an electric vehicle on the go.The company installed [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 20:43:40
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British Firm Unveils EV-Charging Parking Spot
There has been plenty of interest in all-electric vehicles, but comparatively little attention paid to the infrastructure required to charge them. ( ... days?) Now Romag, a specialty photovoltaic cell manufacturer, has unveiled the PowerPark, a parking station with built-in solar cells that can charge an electric vehicle on the go. The company [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 19:43:40
Sencera Demonstrates 8.7% Efficient Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sencera, a manufacturer of thin-film silicon based photovoltaic modules, has successfully deposited single-junction silicon solar cells with an initial 8.7% sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency under standard test conditions. As a result, the Company has secured [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 17:27:00
An Unusual Plan to Offset Carbon Taxes
A carbon tax does not exist yet in this country (well, except in Boulder, Colo.) ... that are trying to attract manufacturing.”The carbon footprint of solar panels is presumably small relative ... have to account for their emissions. Manufacturers of photovoltaic cells are among the industries covered [more...]
Date: 2009-03-17 12:44:55
Solar Powered Parking Spots
Everyone knows that World oil reserves are running out and sooner rather than later we will need to turn to electricity to power our vehicles. A British company called Romag has designed a car park canopy system which could potentially ... , the specialized photovoltaic cell manufacturer believes that many kilowatt hours of electricity [more...]
Date: 2009-04-05 19:56:47
Thin-Film Solar Maker Attracts Private-Equity Investment
March 19, 2009 – 10:55Sencera, a manufacturer of thin-film silicon based photovoltaic modules based in North Carolina, has attracted the final $5 ... to a reduction in panel manufacturing costs. Sencera’s solar device efficiency gain was achieved with process ... -junction silicon solar cells, which achieved an initial 8.7 percent sunlight to electricity [more...]
Date: 2009-03-19 14:55:10
Press Release - Xcel Energy and SunPower Sign Contract to Build 17-Megawatt Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant in Colorado
DENVER, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, today announced an agreement to build a 17-megawatt AC photov [more...]
Date: 2009-04-07 12:00:00
Press Release - Sencera Demonstrates 8.7% Efficient Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell - Completes $15.6 Million Equity Funding Round
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sencera, a manufacturer of thin-film silicon based photovoltaic modules, has successfully deposited single-junction silicon solar cells with an initial 8.7 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 16:45:30
Biofuels pioneer makes synthetic “cell engine”; first step towards artificial life
Ribosome image produced by produced by Harry Noller at the University of California Santa Cruz, Venki Ramakrishnan at the University of Cambridge, ... or “cell engine” that is found in every living organism and is the biological manufacturer ... and competes with solar thin-film photovoltaic cells in solar efficiency. The breakthrough has not yet [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 11:06:38
End of the ride
For a brief period in time, it seemed that the Chinese project to reduce carbon emissions and develop alternative sources of energy had gathered real ... of photovoltaic cells (incubating solar panel manufacturing giants like Suntech and Trina Solar in the process [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 04:43:55
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