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Spain’s Abengoa Solar has unveiled its first high-temperature power tower — Eureka — in Andalusia. The only such plant in operation in Europe, the power tower is intended to test, on an experimental basis, a new type of receiver designed to achieve the higher temperatures needed for higher-efficiency thermodynamic power cycles.
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UK-based NextEnergy Capital, a bank specialising in renewable energy, has chosen Italy for its next solar power investments: four Enerqos solar farms to be built in Apulia. Under an agreement signed last year, NextEnergy Capital will invest €1 billion in Enerqos for European solar farm construction. The total value of
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UK-based renewable energy firm Dulas reports that sales of its life-saving solar powered products continue to remain strong, with a total of 568 solar-powered fridges being shipped, year to date. These fridges have been dispatched across 12 countries including recent shipments to Nigeria. The solar-powered fridges are used for the
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RGE Energy AG is partnering with BP Solar to plan one of the world’s largest solar projects: a 46-megawatt peak installation to be built in Koethen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. BP Solar will supply around 210,000 crystalline photovoltaic modules for the facility, and RGE Energy will install the modules. Reyad
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Switzerland-based Oerlikon Solar, a supplier of thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, says it’s achieved a new record efficiency level of 11 per cent initial power conversion for commercial thin-film silicon PV modules. “This achievement … is another key milestone on our path to grid parity,” said Jeannine Sargent, CEO
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The UK solar industry’s “We Support Solar” campaign is joining SolarAid and G24 Innovations to back three environmental campaigners on a round-the-world bicycle expedition that aims to highlight the potential of solar energy in the fight against climate change. Along with leg power, cyclists Susie Wheeldon, Jamie Vining and
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Kyocera Corporation is supplying solar modules for the new Toyota Prius solar ventilation system, an optional feature for the hybrid car model introduced in Japan this week by Toyota Motor Corporation. The system ventilates the air inside of the car by using the electricity generated by the solar module on
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Photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer Suntech Power Holdings will supply solar panels to solar system integrator Sunergic SA of Switzerland for a 1-megawatt solar system for Services Industriels de Geneve (SIG), a Swiss utility. The project will be one of the largest solar installations in Switzerland to date. “Switzerland has demonstrated
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Solar electricity could be as cheap as conventional electricity in the UK by 2013, according to a new report from Solarcentury. The analysis shows that solar roofs on British homes will be generating electricity as cheap as conventional electricity ( a situation known as “grid parity”) by 2013, with solar electricity
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The European Court of Justice, officially known as the Court of Justice of the European Communities, has installed a photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system composed of Kyocera solar modules on its new building in Luxembourg. The roof of the new building is lined with 2,262 modules with a total
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The Mercury prize-winning band the Klaxons has called for more support for solar power in the UK. The band, now recording its second album, has joined the ‘We Support Solar’ campaign to pressure the Government to reward those adopt solar energy to help fight climate change. Much of the Klaxons’
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Online voting is now open for this years Cell Awards, in which members of the solar energy industry choose their favourite manufacturing technology. Voters can rate entries on a scale of 1 through 20, and industry voters will account for 20 per cent of each entry’s overall award value.