US-based Plextronics has completed a $14 million funding round that will help it move further down the road to commercialising its printed electronics-based lighting and solar generation products. It is thought that printed electronic technology, which is based on conductive polymers, could eventually become a low-cost replacement for silicon in…
Toshiba Corporation have recently announced that it has won a major contract to develop a multi-MW photovoltaic (PV) project for Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc
The order is the first that Toshiba has secured for a multi-MW PV project, and the company’s systems will be installed in the Taketoyo Thermal Power Station in Taketoyo, Aichi prefecture. The multi-MW PV project will have a 7.5MW capacity and will be the first industrial-use photovoltaic power generator operated…
The 25-year contracts, which will help PG&E’s Pacific Gas & Electric utility meet state renewable energy requirements, were approved Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission at its regular meeting in San Francisco.PG&E will get power from a 110-megawatt solar-thermal station scheduled to be online by July 2012 and from…
Solar thermal heating is like the good kid in the group: It might not be as cool as solar PV for electricity or those massive solar thermal plants being built in the deserts, but it’s pretty solid
The future of photovoltaics is bright as the sun! Just for one example of how serious a contender PV is becoming, consider Spain
The future of photovoltaics is bright as the sun! Just for one example of how serious a contender PV is becoming, consider Spain. Right now that beautiful country is copping a lot of blame because of changes in the incentive structure that have led to a major drop in solar…
It’s the biggest move yet by First Solar, a Tempe, Ariz.-based maker of thin-film solar cells, into the power plant business and another sign utilities see big photovoltaic solar farms as a viable alternative to solar thermal projects. Those power plants generate electricity by using mirrors to focus sunlight on…
Southern California Edison on Tuesday announced a deal to buy 550 megawatts of electricity from two massive photovoltaic solar farms to be built in the Mojave Desert by First Solar
Economically viable cells that are cheap, flexible and simple to manufacture, could be on the horizon
