DOE expects to fund between approximately 20 and 22 projects, and encourages industry, universities, and National Laboratories to apply.

ET’s anti-reflective modules offer higher electricity production, more stable performance and lower unit cost than conventional glass based modules.

As small renewable energy systems are increasingly deployed at the sub-utility scale, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems will continue to be the leading form of renewable distributed energy generation (RDEG) installations.

The president of the Murcia Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, and Klaus Gehrlicher, founder and CEO of the German photovoltaic company Gehrlicher Solar AG, met on October 20th to announce major solar power investments within the next five years.

The benefits of renewable energy technologies will be highlighted as part of Energy Saving Week (October 24-28).

Gemasolar, owned by Torresol Energy, a joint venture between SENER (60%) and Masdar (40%), is located in Fuentes Andalucia, Spain.

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) currently make up a small but noticeable part of the world PV market.

Cost per Watt Reduced on Solar Thermal Installations.

BrightSource will develop three separate 250 megawatt (nominal) solar thermal power plants, each with its own solar field and solar power tower.

In mid-October, Siemens Energy put the Les Mées solar farm in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the south of France on line.