Spain: 1.2MW solar plants for water company, sports facilities and schools

20 May 2013

In Spain, 9 public facilities, including some schools, sports facilities, a water company and government buildings are going solar. In the future, more than 5000 solar modules installed on the roofs of these buildings, which Conergy supplied to its partner and general contractor Gamma Solutions, will deliver a total of 1.8 million kilowatt hours of clean solar power a year, sufficient to supply over 500 Spanish households.

TÜV Rheinland PTL Initiates Creation of New ANSI Standards

17 May 2013

TÜV Rheinland PTL, a standards developing organization (SDO) for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), has successfully initiated the creation of three new American National Standards and is seeking the industry participation in the respective standards working groups.

Coloured Glass for Solar Panels

15 May 2013

SwissINSO Holding Inc. a company that specialises in the development and application of new solar technologies and products launched coloured glass Kromatix. designed and developed in collaboration with EPFL (Swiss Polytec Institute), to improve the aesthetics and overall effectiveness of integrated solar energy solutions.

Schneider Electric Provides Electrical Balance of System to 10 Solar Projects in France

15 May 2013

Schneider Electric provided integrated solutions to for 10 solar power projects in France, including 57 PV Box power substations, monitoring and control system, and 10 grid connection substations.

Upsolar Develops First Project in Greece

15 May 2013

Upsolar, a provider of solar PV modules, today announced the completion of a 1.5MW solar electric system in Kozani, capital of the West Macedonia region in Greece. This marks the first installation in the region completed by Upsolar’s Project Development Department.

SNEC 2013: JA Solar and DuPont Collaborate on Cypress Panel Design

15 May 2013

 DuPont Microcircuit Materials and JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., recently collaborated to achieve a reported 19.4% solar cell efficiency.

SolarEdge Smart Junction Boxes Receive Global Certification

13 May 2013

SolarEdge Technologies, a global provider of end-to-end solar power optimization systems and monitoring solutions today obtained certification for its second generation of smart junction box products.

See-Through Solar Cells can Generate Energy from Windows

13 May 2013

New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of see-through solar cells for generating electricity on glass windows, today announced that researchers have successfully achieved faster fabrication time, improved transparency, and a two-fold increase in power conversion efficiency. Researchers achieved today's advances by way of a novel, patent-pending breakthrough, which enables fabrication of large-scale mini-module SolarWindow devices, important to commercial deployment glass window capable of generating electricity.