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Thursday, March 27th, 2008SFSolarsubsidy.com has lots of information to help promote San Francisco’s solar power incentive program. Rebates of up to $5,000 are available for residential installations, and up to $10,000 for businesses. So if you live in San Francisco and are interested in getting a solar power setup, check out the available information.
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CIGS thin film solar cell hits 19.9% efficiency - a record
Monday, March 24th, 2008Researchers at the US Dept of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) have developed a thin-film CIGS solar cell that competes with the efficiency of silicon photovoltaic solar cells.
Their new copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) cell hit 19.9% efficiency, which is a world’s record for this type of solar cell. Most thin-film cells […]
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Bucks County, PA to be new home for largest east coast solar power facility
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Ground was broken today on the new Exelon-Epuron Solar Energy Center, located in Falls Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The plant will consist of 17,000 solar panels on 16.5 acres of land that belongs to Waste Management. When completed around September or October of this year, the plant will be the […]
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Solar cell paint
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008A couple of days ago I told you about using inkjet printers to create solar cells. Now comes word from Swansea University in Wales of solar cell paint. Dr. Dave Worsley and his team of researchers have been working on creating an inexpensive solar cell paint that can be painted on […]
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Rainbow solar cells?
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Physorg.com is reporting that University of Notre Dame researchers have created solar cells from different sized quantum dots, with each dot tuned to a specific wavelength of light. By arranging this quantum dots in an orderly pattern, the researchers hope they can make “rainbow” solar cells, which can then harvest a much greater range […]
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Konarka Technologies demos their inkjet printed solar cells
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Konarka Technologies, Inc, said Tuesday that they have successfully conducted the first ever demonstration of inkjet printed solar cells. Rick Hess, the president and CEO of Konarka said the the demo is a “milestone for the company and represents an, “essential breakthrough in the field of printed solar cells.” Konarka currently makes […]
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Moth eyes may hold key to more efficient solar cells
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Physorg.com is reporting on a new process from Peng Jiang, an assistant professor at the University of Florida that looks to the structure of moth eyes for increased solar cell efficiency. Jiang method increases the amount of sunlight absorbed by reducing the amount of sunlight reflected. Jiang says that the current “bluish anti-reflective coating you see on solar cells these […]
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Solar Cell Directly Splits Water To Produce Recoverable Hydrogen
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008From Science Daily: While its only in the proof of concept stage, researchers at Penn State have developed a device that uses sunlight to split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. Right now its extremely inefficient, but the researcher team thinks they can get up to 10-15 percent efficiency. At higher efficiencies, it’s […]
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Suntech targets 1 gigawatt solar cell capacity by end of 2008
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The solar cell manufacturer Suntech, said that they increased their PV solar cell manufacturing capability to 540 MW in 2007, and they expect to hit 1 GW of production capacity by the end of 2008. Suntech also expects to improve their gross margins and revenues during 2008 because they expect lower priced silicon to […]
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Spire Corp wins patent to make better solar cells using nanotech
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Spire Corp, a solar cell equipment maker, has just been awarded a U.S. patent for a nanophotonics technology that could result in more efficient low cost solar cells.
Spire’s method is a better way to design and synthesize quantum dot nanoparticles that are more consistent than those made with other methods. Quantum dots are nanometer […]
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