Rise & Shine: January 23, 2009
The Rise & Shine is your daily source for all solar-industry news. Brought to you by Sweet Solar Home and the Experts at SunRun ... Greenhouse Gasses are Being Used to Manufacture Solar Panels To get rid of PECVD or SiNx waste ... - up to 22,800 times stronger than CO2. ORNL Goes Solar with 288 Foot Span of Panels The energy produced [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 16:34:26
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10 Interesting Links From March 21st
Under 35? Hurray for the meltdown! - MSN Money - If you're 35 or older, the financial crisis may seem to have no upside ... the sun's energy to operate a portion of the facility. Solon Corp., a solar-panel manufacturer with a factory in Tucson, is donating more than $200,000 in solar panels to the research center. Report [more...]
Date: 2009-03-22 07:00:55
Carbon credits useless if they don’t cut emissions
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter ... -intensive solar panel manufacturing plant.Some new emissions have been avoided because energy ... . If an electric utility is limited in how much carbon it is allowed to emit, it can purchase credits [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 05:31:17
Bright day for Silicon Valley solar company
March 9th, 2009 Posted by Harry Fuller @ 12:09 pmCategories:Blogroll, Europe, energy, engineering, environmental health, green tech, renewable energy, solarTags:Greece, Photovoltaics, Courtesy SolFocus, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller Solar collector panels. Courtesy SolFocus.SolFocus of Mountain View says they will be helping [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 19:09:29
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
Alarming energy inefficiency in new manufacturing
Under the rubric, “we are not yet making progress”, this is an important study in the context of distributed manufacturing and the need for a ... solar panel manufacturing methods could drastically reduce the technology’s lifecycle energy balance ... industries scale up — especially if energy prices rise again or if a carbon tax is adopted, he says [more...]
Date: 2009-03-26 10:44:25
The darker side of solar
You know why traditional chemical manufacturing processes are considered very energy efficient these days? ... manufacturing methods such as solar panel production, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... sustainability from products manufactured by these means," he said. Professor Gutowski said [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 18:16:09
Six Reasons for Cloudy Skies on the Solar Energy Industry
While solar energy panel wattage has and will continue to grow at a rate of about 40% per year, ... . The thin film solar panel market and hence the equipment market grew strongly because ... %. Our analysis of 103 solar manufacturers shows that panel production capacity in 2009 will be 15 GW whereas [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 13:46:35
Sharp Demonstrates a Carbon-Neutral Way to Watch TV
If you own a big-screen TV, you may have some inkling about the amount of energy that goes into powering it ... solar panel manufacturers in the world, and it believes that a single panel can provide enough energy to power an LCD TV for four and a half hours a day with no extra electricity from the grid. Read [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 01:10:55
Moser Baer Striving to lower PV Manufacturing Costs
While the technology originated in the United States, it has been Germany and Japan that have taken the lead in the manufacture of solar panels ... in state-of-the-art solar energy , yet even such advantage is diminishing as research institutes around ... , yellow, green, blue, purple and pink. Australia gleams a bright red on the NASA map based upon data [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 20:15:52
DOE offers first loan guarantee to solar firm
This is good news for the renewable energy space. Y&M Partners is working with both solar and wind companies ... for the construction of a commercial scale solar panel manufacturing plant. Solyndra makes cylindrical solar ... of the project's costs, allowing Solyndra to begin construction of a second solar panel fabrication facility [more...]
Date: 2009-03-21 15:50:00
Alarming Use Of Energy, Materials In Newer Manufacturing Processes
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, ... dramatically. The inherent inefficiency of current solar panel manufacturing methods could ... will become more important, however, as the new industries scale up — especially if energy prices rise [more...]
Date: 2009-03-30 23:19:01
New Solar Panel Manufacturer Start-Up
Written on March 27, 2009 iStockAnalyst.com reports Willard & Kelsey Solar Company will produce two million solar panels a year in a former ... will run around the clock creating solar panels using 70% less energy than their neighbor, First Solar’ [more...]
Date: 2009-03-27 13:00:28
‘Alarming’ Use of Energy, Materials in Newer Manufacturing Processes
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, ... as microchips but on a large scale, is escalating dramatically. The inherent inefficiency of current solar panel manufacturing methods could drastically reduce the technology’s lifecycle energy balance — [more...]
Date: 2009-03-27 16:01:02
Eco Gadgets: Electrolux’s Sunny washing machine might need too much sun
electrolux-sunny1_gqpM9_69 Eco Factor: Front loading washing machine heats water with solar energy. Just when the uses of solar energy in electronics seem to have reached their end, manufacturers ... will bring back all those extra bucks you spend for the solar panels in the form of energy savings [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 09:09:50
Rise & Shine: October 20, 2008
The Rise & Shine is your daily source for all solar-industry news. Brought to you by Sweet Solar Home and the Experts at SunRun ... film solar manufacturing facility, which can produce enough flexible solar modules to produce ... of solar in the nation’s energy mix. Solar Panels Save [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 15:00:55
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
DOE Offers $535M Loan Guarantee to PV Panel Manufacturer
The US Department of Energy is offering a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra , Inc ... s Federal Financing Bank to expand its solar panel manufacturing capacity in California ... more sunlight than traditional flat-surfaced solar panel. Solyndra’s photovoltaic systems are designed [more...]
Date: 2009-03-22 14:00:00
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