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- 2008/01/09: SlashDot: Super Soaker Inventor Hopes to Double Solar Efficiency
- 2007/12/17: INL: Harvesting the sun's energy with antennas
- 2008/01/09: DymaxionWorld: Holy snap - 80% efficient solar power!
- 2008/01/09: GristMill: The future is ... less far in the future - New nanoantennas capture sun's energy 24-7; are cheap; are not yet for sale
- 2007/12/18: CNet:GreenTech: Nanosolar 'prints' first flexible solar cells
- 2007/12/21: SlashDot: Silicon Valley Startup [Nanosolar] Prints $1/watt Solar Panels
- 2007/11/20: AP: Solar wafer manufacturer opens plant in Oregon
- 2007/10/26: ChinaDaily: Norway's REC [Renewable Energy Corp] to build world's largest solar plant
- 2007/10/15: Eureka: Leading experts in organic solar cells say the field is being damaged by questionable reports
- 2007/08/03: AfterGutenberg: Competitive Solar Cells at 25% of Typical Cost
- 2007/07/25: FuturePundit: New Solar Photovoltaic Cell Efficiency Record: 42.8%
- 2007/07/28: IR^2: A California Solar Dilemma
- 2007/07/27: IR^2: A Solar Thought Experiment
- 2007/07/24: PhysOrg: Team sets solar cell record [42.8% efficiency]
- 2007/07/03: REA: Oregon Approves 50% Solar Tax Credit
- 2007/06/01: PhysOrg: 40% efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity
- 2007/05/24: TreeHugger: National Solar Radiation Data Base Updated
- NREL: National Solar Radiation Database 1991-2005 Update
- 2007/05/17: NEN: Energy Tiles Are Hot [BIPV]
- 2007/05/15: Eureka: Sandia invention to make parabolic trough solar collector systems more energy efficient
- 2007/04/28: AfterGutenberg: 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
- 2007/04/23: PhysOrg: Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting
- 2007/04/22: EnergyBulletin: Construction starts on world's largest solar array
- 2007/04/19: WFU: Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record at WFU nanotechnology center [6%]
- 2007/04/11: IBTimes: New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light
- 2007/04/12: Eureka: 3-D solar cells boost efficiency while reducing size, weight and complexity - Resembles 'nano-Manhattan'
- 2007/04/10: SciDaily: Cheap, Efficient Solar Power: What's Needed Now To Get There?
- Solar Electricity Action SOLAREC
- PVGIS: Geographical Assessment of Solar Energy Resource and Photovoltaic Technology
- 2007/04/02: BizUpdated: Photovoltaic solar energy: new map and interactive information
- 2007/03/19: NEN: Clouds over "Million Solar Roofs"
- 2007/03/16: NEN: Friday Extra: There Goes the Sun?
- 2007/03/05: TechRev: Cheap Nano Solar Cells - Carbon nanotubes could help make nanoparticle-based solar cells more efficient and practical
- 2007/02/22: M&C: Solar World: China becomes a growing force
- 2007/02/20: MSNBC: Shining a Light on Solar Power - Demand and technological advances are driving solar-energy companies
- 2007/02/20: TreeHugger: Thin-Film Solar Technology Could Be Seriously Clobbering Fossil Fuels in Ten Years
- 2007/02/18: Telegraph(UK): Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
- 2006/08/06: PProbe: Net Metering [in Canada]
- 2007/02/05: TreeHugger: Compact Solar Concentrators Ready For Installation in California
- 2007/01/17: TheAge: Solar power eliminates bills in US home
- 2006/12/22: REA: SolarWorld AG to Double Wafer Production Capacity [to 500 MW within the next 28 months]
- 2006/12/20: PlanetArk: Sanyo to Spend Y19 Billion to Boost Solar Cell Capacity [annual capacity to increase to 350 mwatts]
- 2006/12/14: UPI: Solar World: An efficiency milestone [Spectrolab]
- 2006/12/10: SOSD: State [California] to embark on its biggest-ever photovoltaic project
- 2006/12/10: TEB: How Long will the PV Silicon Shortage Last?
- 2006/12/10: REA: Solar Cell Breaks the 40% Efficiency Barrier
- 2006/12/06: CBC: New solar cells break efficiency records
- Wiki: Solar Energy
- 2006/12/06: DOE: New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology
New Solar Cell Breaks the "40 Percent Efficient" Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier
- Solar Challenge
- 2006/11/21: REA: SCHOTT Solar Feels Impact of Silicon Shortage
- 2006/11/17: TEB: Prisim Solar Licenses Hitachi Bifacial PV Cells
- 2006/11/16: TEB: Sunpower, PowerLight to Merge
- 2006/11/14: PlanetArk: Spain Makes Solar Panels a Must on New Buildings
- 2006/11/09: TechRev: Cheap, Superefficient Solar - Solar-power modules that concentrate the power of the sun are becoming more viable.
- 2006/11/03: CRN: Sharp bets US$30m on solar power [to expand its solar cell output by a factor of six]
- 2006/11/12: TheAge: The rise of solar: why the sun is shining on main street
- 2006/11/10: SlashDot: Solar Power Becoming More Affordable
- 2006/11/09: TEB: SunPower Predicts Rosey, but Slow, Picture for PV Solar
- 2006/11/02: GCC: RoseStreet Labs and Sumitomo Chemical Announce JV for Full-Spectrum Solar Cells
- 2006/11/08: ABC(Au): Power provider looks to expand remote solar power
The Northern Territory's electricity provider [The Power and Water Corporation] is planning to expand its use of solar power in remote communities now that it is cheaper to run than diesel generators.
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2006/11/07: TStar: Ontario to harvest solar power - Three farms coming in three years - North America's largest solar project
- 2006/11/01: TEB: Sharp Expands Solar Cell Production
- 2006/10/27: ZDNet: Solar start-up snags $35 million as CIGS ignites
- 2006/10/27: TreeHugger: Lighting Up The $1 Trillion Power Market
- 2006/10/23: TreeHugger: One Man's Case for Residential Solar
- 2006/10/21: AZStarNet: Promise of solar energy already starting to shine [Book Review] _Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry_ by Travis Bradford
- 2006/10/16: Yahoo: SunPower Announces High Power, Higher Efficiency [22%] Solar Panel
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2006/10/13: MPG: A boost for solar cells with photon fusion - a process to convert longwave light from a normal light to shortwave light
- 2006/10/13: Eureka: Researchers mimic lotus leaves for self-cleaning PV arrays, non-stick MEMS
- 2006/10/13: SciDaily: A Boost For Solar Cells With Photon Fusion
- 2006/10/11: PhysOrg: A boost for solar cells with photon fusion
- 2006/09/19: SciDaily: Iowa State Researchers Developing More Powerful Solar Cells
- 2006/09/07: Nature: Solar energy: A new day dawning?: Silicon Valley sunrise by Oliver Morton
- 2006/09/10: Eureka: Solar energy: Charged for the future
- 2006/09/10: REA: Silicon Research Will Transform Solar Cells
- 2006/09/07: PlanetArk: Solar Power to Shine in Coming Decades - Report
- 2006/09/01: PlanetArk: Sharp [Corp.] Sees Solar Power Costs Halving By 2010
- 2006/08/24: EcoWorld: The Photovoltaic Boom
- 2006/08/23: REA: Million Solar Roofs Bill Signed into Law
- 2006/08/22: SOSD: Bill signing completes governor's [million solar roofs] plan - More panels, cleaner power goal of project
- 2006/08/22: TLC: California Leads the Way in Solar Power
- 2006/08/15: REA: Million Solar Roofs Bill Heads to the Governor's Desk
- 2006/08/18: REA: Secretive solar start-up SolarValue AG reveals solar grade silicon production plans through joint venture bid for TDR - Metalurgija in Ruse, Slovenia
- 2006/08/18: SF Gate: German approach might energize solar industry - Applied Materials enters market with acquisition in July
- 2006/08/14: DeSmogBlog: China goes solar
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2006/08/14: TheAge: Solar power comes down to earth - Spectrolab will supply 500,000 solar cells to Australian company Solar Systems
- 2006/08/14: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Solar panels pilot 'could be rolled out to thousands of homes'
- 2006/08/13: EnergyBulletin: Solar cells change electricity distribution
- 2006/08/12: TreeHugger: Folding The Sun: Hyper-Concentrators
- 2006/08/10: UPI: Solar World: Booming solar just the start
- 2006/08/07: REA: Solar Stocks Boom in 2005 -- But It Is Just the Beginning
- 2006/08/01: Guardian(UK): In praise of ... solar power
- 2006/08/01: Guardian(UK): Currys goes green as solar panels hit high street
- Alternative Energy blog
- 2006/07/29: TreeHugger: Farming The Sun: $600,000 A Year
- 2006/07/23: TreeHugger: UK Solar Supplier [Solar Century] Angry Over Government Report
- 2006/07/17: REA: All Energy for Europe Could Come from Concentrating Solar Power
- 2006/07/17: GristMill: Concentrated solar
- 2006/07/16: UPI: Merger means solar power at fossil prices [using concentrators]
- 2006/07/10: ABC(Au): Solar city would be 'special' for Kalgoorlie: Campbell
- 2006/07/05: PlanetArk: Taiwan's E-Ton Solar Capacity to Triple by 2008
- NIST:BFRL: Building Integrated Photovoltaic Program
- 2006/06/27: Eureka: Rooftop PV data for better energy prediction models
- 2006/06/26: TechRev: Large-Scale, Cheap Solar Electricity
A well-financed California startup [Nanosolar] is promising to build a solar-cell factory that could finally make solar power affordable.
- 2006/06/22: TheSietch: Build your own solar thermal panel
- 2006/06/23: REA: Solar PV Companies Overcome Silicon Shortage and Push Ahead
- 2006/06/22: REA: Thin-Film PV Startup Announces 430 MW Facility
- 2006/06/23: PhysOrg: Nano World: Black silicon for solar power
- 2006/06/21: SF Gate: Largest solar cell plant to be built in Bay Area
- 2006/06/21: MontereyHerald: Major step for solar power - U.S. to host world's largest factory for sun-energy cells [Nanosolar]
- 2006/06/08: WorldChanging: Portugal's Solar Future
- 2006/06/07: BBC: Construction work has begun in southern Portugal on what is set to be the world's largest solar power station [11-megawatt]
- 2006/06/04: People's Daily: Solar power plant project for North [China]
- 2006/05/30: MktWatch: Silicon supply could limit solar energy boom
- 2006/05/09: ClimateArk: Norway: Solar group REC shines on debut
- 2006/05/01: MosNews: Gorbachev Calls G8 to Invest in Solar Energy
- California's New Solar Homes Partnership
- 2006/04/27: SacBee: [California Energy Commission] Web site touts solar power
- 2006/04/27: PlanetArk: World's Biggest Solar Farm Planned for New Mexico
- 2006/04/25: TechRev: Holographic Solar - A novel approach to concentrating sunlight could cut solar panel costs.
- 2006/04/22: Guardian(UK): BP joins bank in record solar-power project
They aim to build 278 small power plants across Spain before 2008. These would jointly provide 18 to 25 megawatts - saving 37,500 tonnes of carbon emissions.
- 2006/04/10: FuturePundit: Rapid Growth In Photovoltaics Demand Driven By Germany
- 2006/04/14: ClimateArk: Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun
- 2006/04/11: SF Gate: Solar panels are in short supply - Industry's growth slows as material is harder to come by
- 2006/03/27: REA: "Complete Solar Roof" Offers Power and Heat [SolarCentury]
- 2006/04/03: Eureka: Solar cell manufacturing process examined with a view to increasing cell efficiency
- 2006/03/01: Eureka: Think solar not nuclear for the energy of the future, say scientists
- 2006/02/14: SciDaily: Titania Nanotubes Create Potentially Efficient Solar Cells
- 2006/02/10: BBC: Pioneers look forward to solar future
- 2006/02/10: PlanetArk: Solar Thermal Starts to Shine in World's Deserts
- 2006/02/06: BWeek: What's Raining On Solar's Parade? Almost all solar panels are made with silicon -- and makers can't buy enough of it
- 2006/02/07: Forbes: Mitsubishi Heavy to increase solar cell production five-fold - report [50 MW/year]
- 2006/02/06: GristMill: World's largest solar PV installation announced [18 MW at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada]
- SolarWorld
- 2006/02/02: SeattlePI: Solarworld buys solar power unit from Shell
- 2006/02/03: PlanetArk: Solarworld Buys Shell's Solar Business; Shares Soar
- 2006/02/02: NanoTechWeb: Start-up [InnovaLight] targets thin-film silicon solar cells
- 2006/02/01: ABC(Au): Solar centre [CSIRO's 500 kw National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle] close to completion
- 2006/01/25: PhysOrg: Titania Nanotube Arrays Harness Solar Energy
- 2006/01/18: ABC(Au): Govt urged to offer more solar energy support
- 2006/01/14: SF Gate: State solar power proposal gets OK from regulators
- 2006/01/14: TruthOut: State Solar Power Proposal Gets OK from Regulators
- 2006/01/13: ENN: California Regulators Adopt $2.9 Billion Solar Power Plan
- 2006/01/12: NanoTechWeb: Titania nanotubes could boost solar cell efficiency
"We have a very short negative electrode providing a remarkable photocurrent density - the amplitude of which is generally proportional to the length up to the point all the light is absorbed," Craig Grimes of
Pennsylvania State told nanotechweb.org. "If we could maintain such properties with increasing nanotube length, we should be able to achieve low cost solar cells of tremendous
efficiencies - basically up to the theoretical limit."
- 2006/01/10: Asahi: Mitsubishi Heavy powers up new solar-panel program
- 2006/01/05: SciDaily: Tiny Crystals Promise Big Benefits For Solar Technologies
- 2006/01/04: EETimes: Nanocrystals eyed as solar cell material
- 2006/01/04: Eureka: Tiny crystals promise big benefits for solar technologies
- 2006/01/02: EETimes: Dim outlook seen for solar in '06
- 2005/12/19: Yahoo: Honda says to mass-produce solar cells from 2007
- 2005/12/19: ABC(Au): $2.5m solar farm to shine on remote shire
- 2005/12/19: PlanetArk: Honda to Mass-Produce Solar [Cells] Batteries - Report
- 2005/12/17: LVS: Bright future expected for solar project
- 2005/12/13: SF Gate: Calif. regulators unveil $2.9 billion plan to expand solar power
- 2005/12/13: Asia Times: China breaks foreign monopoly in silicon
- 2005/11/26: TEB: Hemlock Expands Silicon Production
- 2005/11/15: Wired: Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert
- 2005/11/11: BBC: Solar panel tax breaks are backed
Plans to cut council tax for people who generate their own electricity have been backed by the government.
- 2005/11/03: EETimes: Darpa funds solar power for battlefield
- 2005/10/27: ClimateArk: Mixed Review for Spain's Solar Energy Market
- 2005/10/21: ABC(Au): Solar energy to power Army training base
- 2005/10/20: ClimateArk: Nevada to Get World’s Third Largest Solar Electric Power Plant [parabolic trough concentrators to run a conventional steam generator]
- 2005/10/20: LBL: Sunny Future for Nanocrystal Solar Cells - Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films
- 2005/10/13: REA: UCLA Makes Thin-Film Polymer Solar Progress
- 2005/10/12: REA: Researchers Make Thin-film Solar Efficiency Advances
- 2005/10/11: Wired: Solar Power Biz Heats Up
- NASATech: Photonics Tech Briefs
- 2005/09/: NASATech: High-Efficiency Solar Cells Using Photonic-Bandgap Materials
- 2003/06/: NASATech: Advanced Rainbow Solar Photovoltaic Arrays
- 2005/10/07: PhysOrg: Nanotech solar breakthrough will help spur viability of alternative energy [5.2% organic PV]
- 2005/10/10: SciDaily: UCLA Engineers Pioneer Affordable Alternative Energy: Solar Energy Cells Made Of Everyday Plastic
- 2005/10/09: Eureka: UCLA engineers pioneer affordable alternative energy-solar energy cells made of everyday plastic
- 2005/10/10: TruthOut: Solar Cell Panels Made out of Everyday Plastics
- 2005/08/26: REA: Bittersweet Victory for Million Solar Roofs Bill
- 2005/08/22: TechRev: Nanowire Solar Cells - Building photovoltaics out of nanowires
- 2005/08/20: AmandaKovattana: Catherine and Amanda Go Solar
- 2005/08/21: EnergyBulletin: Catherine and Amanda Go Solar
- 2005/08/19: REA: DOE Touts Solar Energy Potential
- 2005/08/06: ClimateArk: Shortages Stifle a Boom Time for the Solar Industry
- 2005/08/19: BWeek: Solar Power's New Hot Spot
Stirling Energy is poised to build the world's largest -- and most innovative -- energy farm, thanks to a deal with SoCal Edison
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