Solar and
LED outdoor lighting company Sol has
partnered with Chip Ganassi Racing Teams to upgrade the team’s
outdoor lighting at both the Indianapolis, Indiana and Concord,
North Carolina race shops to energy-efficient solar and LED
lighting.
Schmid
today announced the development of its Multi-Busbar Connector is
moving into its last phase: the production-ready design of the
machine for serial production. Schmid says it plans to present
the product in the first quarter 2013.
DC Power Systems and Solar Depot today announced the renaming of the integrated company as Soligent, effective immediately.
Yingli Green
Energy has teamed up with the US Soccer Federation to
announce the formation of Yingli Green Energy’s PASS (Powering
Advancement with Solar and Soccer) program in the US. The
initiative combines the financial and educational benefits of a
solar power system donation with the active lifestyle benefits of
soccer.
To kick-off the PASS program, Yingli Green Energy and US Soccer inaugurated a 5kW solar energy system at the KIPP DC WILL Academy public charter school in Washington, DC’s Shaw neighborhood.
Trina Solar Limited, a leading
integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from
the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV
modules, today announced the completed installation of a new
photovoltaic system at the headquarters of the Lotus F1 Team in
Enstone, Oxfordshire, England.
The Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) will hold
its 50th annual "Golden Jubilee" conference at the Swinburne
University of Technology, Hawthorn Campus, Melbourne on the
6th & 7th of December 2012 and is now calling for papers that
will achieve the vision of making this conference the
pre-eminent solar academic event in the Asia Pacific, with strong
industry involvement and support.
Madico Inc., manufacturer of photovoltaic backsheets for the Solar Power industry, announced that it plans to make several announcements at Intersolar Europe 2012, taking place in Munich, Germany 13 to 15 June.
Researchers at the University of Florida
(UFL) in Gainesville, Florida (US) achieved the highest power
conversion efficiency yet for a graphene-based solar cell after
adding an organic dopant: 8.6% — that is more than for times the
efficiency of undoped devices.
The Italian video artist and artistic consultant to the fashion label Louis Vuitton, Fabrizio Plessi, has bridged the gap between art and photovoltaics (PV), placing these two apparent opposites in partnership with each other.
China Sunergy Co., Ltd. today
announced that its monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon
solar modules passed the salt-mist corrosion and ammonia
resistance tests conducted by TÜV Rheinland Group.