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Masdar focuses on CPV

Masdar is reportedly planning a second solar competition involving up to eight concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems next year.
 

Published Nov 17, 2008 / Read More

Mitsui Engineering starts onsite research for CPV plant

Cosmo Oil Co Ltd and Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) have reportedly commissioned Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd to construct a power plant for the verification of concentrating photovoltaics (CPV).
 

Published Nov 17, 2008 / Read More

XeroCoat's anti-reflective coating technology receives patent grants

XeroCoat has recently received notice of issuance of three separate patents for its method of production and morphology control of silica and silica-like films.
 
Initial patent grants have been received from Singapore and Australia.
 

Published Nov 17, 2008 / Read More

SolFocus announces its new CPV solution

SolFocus has come up with its latest CPV solution, the SolFocus 1100S.
 
According to the company, the "system achieves panel efficiencies of 25 percent resulting in systems which produce the highest energy density and highest energy yield of photovoltaic systems available today".
 

Published Nov 17, 2008 / Read More

WorldWater & Solar Technologies set to complete its existing flat-plate projects

WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp. now has all of the necessary resources to complete its existing flat-plate projects, all of which should be substantially finished by late this year or early 2009.
 

Published Nov 17, 2008 / Read More

Interview with Ricard Pardell, president and R&D director, Sol3g

"We may be at 30 percent module efficiency by the end of 2009": Sol3g
 
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Published Nov 12, 2008 / Read More

SolFocus gets associated with the largest CPV deal in EU

SolFocus has come up with yet another significant initiative in Spain. The company has signed a $103 million agreement with EMPE Solar to install over 10 megawatts (MW) of CPV solar energy projects in several sites across southern Spain by the end of 2010.
 

Published Nov 5, 2008 / Read More

Californian media company reduces daily load on the power grid

KGO has become the first major commercial broadcast media outlet in California to reach its listeners by harnessing the power of the sun and reducing its use of the power grid.
 

Published Nov 5, 2008 / Read More

Solar continues to lead US cleantech investment: analysis

Energy/electricity generation companies attracted the maximum investment of any cleantech segment during the third quarter. The investment figure for such companies was around $1 billion, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource.
 

Published Nov 5, 2008 / Read More

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