News & Press Releases - Solar - 6

We stood in the quiet fan sloping gradually down from snow-covered Clark Mountain on the border of the Mojave National Preserve. The winter day was brisk and breezy, the air fresh, and the creosote bushes were green from recent rains. I noticed ...

China remains the world's leading investor in low-carbon energy technology, a global study has shown. The table, published by the US Pew Environment Group, showed that the Chinese invested $54.4bn (£34.1bn) in 2010, up from $39.1bn in 2009. ...

Tata Power has entered into a partnership with Australian solar power company Sunengy Pty Ltd that will allow the Australian company to build a pilot plant using its low-cost, floating (on water) solar technology in India by this year-end. Tata ...

Solar energy is progressing: Japan-based OS has developed the so-called “Mobile Solar Unit” [ENG, PDF], which is essentially a portable power generation system that comes with a retractable solar panel. The system can provide a total of ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Vulture program, which aims to develop and demonstrate technology to enable a single high-altitude unmanned airplane (UAV) to operate continuously for a period of five years, has ...

Nancy Lamontagne Researchers at the University of Arizona, led by Roger Angel, have undertaken the development of a solar energy module with one goal in mind: producing solar energy at a cost low enough to compete with fossil fuel without the need ...

Carmanah Technologies has announced the launch of the EG300-series solar LED outdoor streetlight; a new generation of solar-LED lighting systems designed to meet the specific roadway performance features required for customers in global sun-belt ...

One of the potentially limiting characteristics of solar power is the fact that it takes up a lot of space. Solar panels obviously aren't going to be of much use if they're stacked one on top of the other, so instead must be spread out ...

HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to magnify the power of the Sun to significantly increase the power output of solar cells, today announced that new design models show potential magnification of 300%. We are very excited ...

Stanford researchers develop a trick that could help dye-sensitized solar cells trap more light. By Prachi Patel Dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells are cheaper to make than conventional silicon cells, but they're still relatively inefficient. Now ...