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5 Fresh Innovations in Solar Technology
It’s true—amazing solar tech innovations just keep coming. Some advances come in the form of new handheld devices and applications. Others promise to elevate solar into a mainstream energy source that...
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Co-Locating Solar and Wind Power Farms: Can Two Renewable Energy Sources Be...
The intermittent, yet often complementary, nature of wind and solar energy has long been observed and increasingly remarked upon of late. Minnesota’s Ecos Energy is looking to take advantage of that...
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The March of Concentrating Solar Power Continues
Concentrating solar power, the rapidly-growing alternative to photovoltaic power, continues its expansion. A joint venture between two energy companies, one from Spain and one from Abu Dhabi, is set...
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Hourly Electricity Pricing Boosts Value of Distributed Solar by 33%
What if electricity cost more when the sun was shining? Many utilities are using new electronic “smart meters” to adjust the price of electricity as often as every hour, to reflect supply and demand....
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New Solar Module Efficiency Record & These Modules Are Coming to Market
The picture shows a test system consisting of 40 high concentrating photovoltaic (HCPV) modules. The latest prototypes of the modules achieved a major milestone with 33.9 percent solar module...
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New Type of Inverter Could Drive Down the Cost of Solar Power
ArrayPower says that it has invented a “sequenced inverter” design that could cut the cost of solar power by 10%. For those that don’t know what an inverter is, don’t worry, it is easy to understand...
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MIT Developing Paintable Solar Cells Made of Plants
In a report published by Scientific Reports, researchers say they’re successfully working toward making low-cost solar cells from plants. While, technically, all plants are some sort of solar cell...
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Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Solar Set for 60% Growth in North America in 2012
Yesterday, I focused a bit small-scale or medium-scale solar (in the US & UK) here on CleanTechnica. On the flip side, news today from Solarbuzz is that utility-scale photovoltaic solar is growing...
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Dumping Solar: Study Sheds Light on Solar PV Trade Flows, US-China Manufacturing
Research and analysis of solar PV manufacturing costs and international trade flows shows that Chinese silicon solar PV manufacturers have only a slight cost advantage on their US counterparts, and...
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“Invisible” Solar Panels are on the Way
Window gazers of the future may soon find themselves looking right through an energy-producing transparent glass solar panel, if the folks at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are on the right...
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