Solar energy

By rss@youtube.com (marketwire) Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced today the completion of the El Dorado Energy Solar project, the largest operational thin-film, solar-power project in North America. Located on 80 acres of sunshine-rich desert in Nevada, the 10-megawatt facility consist...

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar energy has been growing in importance as a green and non-polluting energy source. The global market potential remains significant with cost and affordability as the key barriers to adoption of solar energy being a ...

Company researchers have been focused on improving thin-film solar cell manufacturing to potentially double the amount of solar power that can be converted into energy — 20 percent of a sun's rays, rather than today's norm of 10 percent — in the ... New Energy Matters (subscription)

By the ecopreneur(noreply@blogger.com) The unique design of Solyndra’s modules boast two primary advantages. First, the modules are cylindrical instead of flat and are packed together with a minimum gap between modules, creating a self-tracking configuration that allows the modules to capture both direct and diffuse (inc...

By Mike Millikin Ascent Solar produces thin film solar cells by applying a layer of copper, indium, gallium and selenide (CIGS) to a flexible foil that is encapsulated in a protecting material. The resulting solar cells are extremely thin. The active layer that converts sunlight into electricity is no mo...