Power grids, communications and satellites could be knocked out by a massive solar storm in the next two years, according to scientists. Experts say the sun is reaching a peak in its 10-year activity cycle,...
Soon, the windows of your house and the screen of your cell phone may be collecting solar power. An article published in the journal Advanced Materials says researchers at the University of California have built...
A toll highway in Denver has become a clean energy powerhouse. A series of solar panel arrays covering a 25km stretch of the E-470 was commissioned late last month. Generating electricity to power streetlights, signs,...
SYDNEY, Australia, July 24, 2012 --/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, today announced the grand prize winner of its Suntech Super Draw in Australia, who...
Nanosolar has completed a 1-megawatt, ground-mounted solar panel installation at a military base in California. The company's management are the inventors of a solar technology that prints metallic nanoparticle inks on huge rolls of aluminum...
China is already the largest producer of solar products in the world and now the government has initiated to open their domestic market. The resulting new targets will ensure China itself will represent one of...
Japan opened several solar energy parks last Sunday as a new law requiring companies to purchase renewable energy at a fixed price in a push for alternatives to nuclear power came into action. The openings...
Chemical reactions on the surface of metal oxides, such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, are important for solar cells that convert the sun's energy to electricity. Now University of Washington scientists have found that...
Italian company Acta S.p.A. has taken yet another step towards saving the environment. Earlier this week, the company signed an exclusive supply agreement for the supply of photovoltaic installations and integrated hydrogen generators for the...
Last year the solar company HyperSolar, Inc. filed a patent application for a solar powered system that creates renewable methane gas from water, which it has been testing out at California’s Salton Sea. Recently the company announced that it has...
A pre-feasibility study for a medium-scale community-owned rooftop solar farm in inner Melbourne is being finalised by Victoria's Yarra Climate Action Now (YCAN). YCAN is an independent community group based in the inner Melbourne suburbs...
Solar panel manufacturer First Solar is scheduled to report quarterly results after U.S. markets close today, with Wall Street expecting earnings per share to decline more than 64 percent year-on-year. Shares in Solar panel manufacturer...
The number of Toowoomba Solar Power homes fitted with solar power systems has doubled in the last year with that number expected to rise even further in 2012. Figures from the Clean Energy Council show...
I am here in Seoul, the burgeoning and confident capital of a burgeoning and confident Korea, to investigate the country's formidable "Green Growth" strategy. In my opinion, Australia can learn some important solar power lessons...
On April 25th, 2012, Trina Solar (U.S.) Inc., a subsidiary of Trina Solar Ltd. (Jiangsu, China), announced that it will donate 10.5 kW of its solar photovoltaic (PV) modules for the American Lung Association’s offices...
The University of Queensland has proudly unveiled the largest flat solar PV panel array in the country; a very impressive sight of 5000 solar grids, collectively the size of 1 ½ football fields, which have...
