GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) have released their annual report, U.S. Solar Market Insight: Year-in-Review 2012, which indicates that solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the United States last year grew 76 percent over 2011.
Solar company Semprius Inc. has been identified in the field of Energy and Materials as one of 2013’s 50 Disruptive Companies, an annual list compiled by MIT Technology Review of the world’s most innovative technology companies.
Cedarville University will soon be receiving clean, renewable energy from the sun via a 2,154 kilowatt solar array on the southwest edge of campus. Power is expected to begin flowing in April.
Designed to offer a solution for solar thermal and ground-source applications with an emphasis on hydronic space heating, the multifunctional Thermal-Stor™ stratified solar thermal storage tank operates as a storage tank and hydronic buffer tank while occupying the space of a single unit.
First Solar Inc. announced that it has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell conversion efficiency, achieving 18.7 percent cell efficiency in tests confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
SolarCity® and American Honda Motor Co. Inc. have announced a partnership to make solar power available to Honda and Acura customers in the United States, providing a clean source of electricity at a lower cost than utility-supplied power.
Solar Energy International (SEI) announced that it is expanding its online training with the launch of a series of online courses starting March 11 and continuing through 2013 covering a variety of topics.
The Solar Center reported that California residents have now installed more than 1 gigawatt — over 1,066 megawatts — of solar power using rebates from the $2.4 billion California Solar Initiative, launched in 2007 as a way to jump-start the industry.
Johnson Controls has announced the introduction of a solar cooling solution to reduce energy costs for large buildings in North America by combining its high-efficiency chillers with hybrid solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) technologies.
Trane is collaborating with the Roman Catholic Church’s Diocese of Honolulu and Sunforce Solutions International, a provider of fully integrated, third-party, decentralized solar-power solutions, to implement solar roof solutions totaling over 1.15 MW in nine parishes on the islands of Oahu and Maui.
