SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) announces their partnership with PV Trackers, manufacturer of solar ground-mounted tracking systems. The combined systems provide the world’s most efficient Solar PV System for large commercial and utility scale systems. The added efficiencies allow power plants to achieve the lowest cost per MWh in the industry on a ground-mounted system. Continue reading →
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IBM’s signing on as a member of EcoGrid EU, a consortium of companies that is planning a European Union (EU) smart grid demonstration project that will source at least 50% of its electrical power from renewable sources, such as wind, solar and biogas, the Armonk, NY-based information technology leader announced Oct. 13. via IBM Joins Continue reading →
It’s a job that would make working as a United Nations switchboard operator seem simple. Out in Austin, Texas, the federally funded Pecan Street smart grid test bed is asking plug-in cars, rooftop solar panels, smart appliances and household batteries to talk to each other — and to the grid at large — in a Continue reading →
Enecsys Limited has teamed with Ember to bring wireless ZigBee communications to roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) systems so that households and businesses can better monitor and optimize their systems’ performance. via Enecsys Selects Ember’s ZigBee Technology to Help Optimize Solar PV System Performance – MarketWatch.
The city of Rome, Italy is poised to welcome electric cars to its streets, according to Toshiba. The electronics giant announced this week that its Italian subsidiary Ansaldo Transmissione & Distribuzione S.p.A (Ansaldo T&D) won a contract to supply a smart grid distribution system to ACEA Distribuzione S.p.A (Gruppo ACEA), one of Italy’s leading public Continue reading →
MORE than 6000 households with new solar systems are losing money while they wait months for Energex to install meters. In another sign that Queensland is struggling to cope with the green revolution, residents have voiced anger at delays in getting “smart meters” that measure the value of their surplus power. via Customers lose as Continue reading →
May I please emphasize this? “A small, 1.2-kilowatt solar system priced at around $4,000 will cover charging costs for an electric vehicle for up to 40 years.” For $4,000 you can buy your ‘gas’ for the next 40 years. via Combining Solar Power and Your Electric Vehicle — Too Practical to Pass Up (Reader Comment) Continue reading →
The U.S. media is abuzz over last week’s bankruptcy of thin-film solar manufacturer Solyndra LLC, with some conservative politicians trying to use the demise of the start-up to argue against federal financing for green energy. But the Chinese media is focusing on a far more important solar power development: two major energy plans that will Continue reading →
Principal Solar Inc. has acquired Talmage Solar Engineering/Solar Market’s 110-kW SunGen Step Guys solar facility in Alfred, Maine. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition advances the business roll-up platform of Principal Solar and builds upon the momentum that began with the company acquisition of Capstone Solar news and networking community for Continue reading →
The Department of Energy is soldiering on with a new $145 million round of SunShot Initiative funding for high efficiency, low cost solar energy technologies, despite the recent bankruptcy of one of its biggest past awardees, Solyndra. The money will go to sixty-nine projects in twenty-four states. The investment of $145 million is a drop Continue reading →
The U.S. Department of Energy is giving Hawaii more than $6.8 million in grants to fund two solar power projects. via State solar power efforts get federal cash – Hawaii News – Staradvertiser.com.
Large-scale batteries have an increasing role to play in smoothing out the integration of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy into power grids, according to battery-maker Saft. The company is displaying a number of its latest battery innovations at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference in Hamburg. via Large-scale batteries can boost solar’s role: Saft | Energy.
Solar thermal energy technologies are most prolific in use today –Decentralized power generation increases electric grid reliability and efficiency Demand for decentralized/distributed power generation technologies (DG) will overtake that of traditional power plants, according to a new report available on companiesandmarkets.com. Minimal energy loss during distribution and transmission, combined with improvements to the reliability of Continue reading →
With even mainstream home builders offering solar options, and some tantalizing hints that solar could be as cheap as coal by 2015, interest in solar for homeowners looks set to rise in coming years. But what about renters, or those who live in the woods? Now there’s also an increasing interest in “solar gardens” that Continue reading →
Entrepreneur Brad Hines’ first solar company crashed and burned, but he’s already started another venture, a story which offers cues on how the entire green-tech sector can reinvent itself in tough times. In 2005, Hines left his work as a NASA engineer to build a radically new and powerful type of rooftop solar collector. But Continue reading →
Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) has plans to set up a solar power project at Miyagi. The Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) is planning to set up a smart grid next generation power delivery system at Miyagi in partnership with Miyagi Prefecture. via Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) Makes Solar Plan.
AOL Energy recently interviewed John Conklin, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. that has just developed a newly enhanced solar spray that can be used to create transparent photovoltaic films for windows. via Power Of The Sun: Q&A With Solar Spray CEO.
The Northwest has set goals to use more renewable energy over the next 15 years, but the existing power delivery system wasn’t set up for getting variable wind and solar power to your house efficiently. Power grid managers have to keep a steady flow of juice in the power lines at all times to avoid Continue reading →
Three of Mitsubishi’s core companies will work together on a smart grid pilot to use EVs to smooth out fluctuations in renewable energy supplies and changing power demand peaks, according to a recent article in Japan’s Electric Daily News. The three companies, Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp., are planning to install Continue reading →
If you care about solar — when it stands to become a mainstream energy source, or how Tennessee’s industry will fare — get a handle on these two words: grid parity. Reaching grid parity — projected by the Tennessee Valley Authority to be up to six years from now — will probably be the single Continue reading →
