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October 10, 2012-Beijing, China [World Of Wind Energy.com] – Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Goldwind”) today announced that its ultra-low wind speed series GW93/1500 Permanent Magnet Direct-Drive (PMDD) turbine was awarded an accreditation certificate by the China General Certification Center (CGC), the mainland’s leading accreditation institution. Which further…

The Department of Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Land Management has approved one of seven major renewable energy projects that President Obama pledged to fast-track in August.

Colo. Department of Public Health Program Awards SMA’s Denver Production Facility for Efforts

New Report Added in ResearchMoz Reports Database Markets for Inorganic and Organic Thin-Film PV Encapsulation – 2012 Thin-film, DSC and organic PV are notoriously vulnerable to oxygen and water vapor; much more so than conventional crystalline silicon PV. NanoMarkets believes that as these newer forms of solar panel technology become…

Ministers risk losing business and consumer confidence for the second time in a year if they fail to heed warnings over the Government’s “undercooked” Green Deal.

The Barrett Steel Group has created the Barrett Offshore Tubes business to provide a dedicated and focused service to the offshore market for oil, gas and renewable energy sources.

Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica (Zamudio, Vizcaya, Spain), a global developer and manufacturer of wind turbines, on October 4th, 2012 announced that it is poised for further technological and industrial diversification in solar photovoltaics. Its 1 MW PLUS central inverter, a water-cooled device for utility-scale PV plants, will be launched in the…

EPFL’s Institute of Microengineering presented at PVSEC, Frankfurt, “hybrid” photovoltaic cells with an energy conversion efficiency of 21.4%, the highest obtained for the type of substrate they used. This breakthrough will contribute to lower the cost of solar cell based installations. In the medium term, an investment of only 2000…

Imec and chemicals company Solvay have announced an organic photovoltaic module with a certified efficiency of 5.5% from an aperture area of 16cm2.

For many people solar energy means PV solar electricity. But, although that is expanding, it’s still only around 50GW of grid linked capacity globally and, by contrast, the perhaps less glamorous but at present far cheaper technology of solar thermal heat collection is well ahead. In fact, globally, there is…