Dow Chemical Co. through their Dow Solar Solutions are putting a great deal of their resources, scientific research and money into the development of the development of solar shingles.
Thermoplastic solar roof shingles will use thin film photovoltaic technology to produce a product that could be available to the North American public by 2011. Dow hopes [...]
An innovative solar farm in St George, Utah is now nearing completion, due to start commercial electricity production in December. The photovoltaic system, which has been dubbed SunSmart, will consist of 466 solar panels and will be the first community owned solar renewable energy concept of its kind.
The concept involves homeowners to buy shares, costing [...]
A new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant has recently gone into operation near Bakersfield, California. The Kimberlina solar power plant has a 5MW capacity and although the size appears small, the facility is significant for solar developer Ausra because it will act as a demonstration of the technology that will be used for the Carrizo [...]
Solar products maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co has announced an agreement that they have made with a local Beijing government body to construct a 10MW photovoltaic power plant. The construction is planned to begin in the second half of 2009.
A new company is going to be created, under the framework of the agreement, in [...]
A new solar energy plant will be constructed in Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania by Green Energy Capital Partners. The facility will feature solar panels that track the movement of the sun across the sky and will be capable of generating a maximum capacity of 10.6MW of electricity.
The land the power plant will be sited on [...]
Speaking at the recent Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, Arnulf Jaeger-Walden of the European commission’s Institute for Energy has suggested that the conditions and space in the Sahara Desert could be harnessed to supply enough energy to power Europe.
The massive solar farms could either be photovoltaic cells (unlikely) or concentrating solar power (more likely). The [...]
