SolFocus, which makes systems that concentrate sunlight on solar cells, has been adding a little to its funds during the year. And according to a report from Venture Wire, the company has finished raising its funds, and seeks to add between $ 60 million and $ 80 million in a Series C. That coupled with [...]
No longer depends entirely on the individual companies and individual investors that solar energy is transformed into something meaningful for the U.S. electricity – if it may happen is in the hands of utilities. Clean Edge and Co-op America has released a report analyzing the roles of factories to make solar energy an accessible source [...]
The computer chips manufacturing Corporation Intel announced an investment of $ 50 million in solar power through its Intel Capital division, forming a new company. The new trading company, Spectra Watt Inc. will manufacture solar cells for distribution to manufacturers of solar panels. Other investors in the company include Cogentrix Energy (a branch of Goldman [...]
In an attempt to clean the air by reducing CO2 emissions, Japan announced that two gigantic solar power generation plants will be installed in the city of Sakai. The title of this project is long – The Marine Plan of Mega Solar Power Generation City Sakai. I guess the title has to fit the size [...]
Southern California Edison (SCE) has signed a contract to procure 245 MW of additional solar energy to its customers with Pasadena. eSolar based in California was chosen for this first effort of national commercial energy technology that uses solar thermal tower. The project will be built in the Lancaster area of California, is expected to [...]
The new style of solar energy is thin and thin is in because it is inexpensive. Solar producers measure their costs in terms of dollars per watt of energy produced, a formula is a combination of the cost of producing a module and its energy efficiency. At this moment the best crystalline silicon modules can [...]
The energy company BrightSource Energy Inc said it would open a solar “power tower” in Israel this week to test new technology that will be used for the construction of power plants next year in California. California utility PG & E Corp signed contracts with BrightSource in April to buy up to 900 megawatts of [...]
FTL announcement last week that, thanks to Terra Firma Capital Group, Josh Mailman Foundation, and private investors, now have the dollars needed to develop flexible solar cells, including his vision for creating PowerMods – structures covered in flexible solar cells that can be used in places where the solar panels do not normally work, such [...]
Solar Industry tries to anticipate the Regulators As solar panels energy are more common and bigger quantities are produced; they are intended to attract the attention of regulators. Many of the larger companies that manufacture solar panels have decided to replace the wave of regulation to voluntarily join and create the first large-scale project for [...]
Acciona Energy, an alternative energy company based outside of Spain, can boast of having built a reputation for clean technologies, and many of them. They are world leaders in wind energy, totaling 5.300 MW in 192 separate wind parks, and built the first concentrating solar plant in USA, The Nevada Solar One (shown in picture), [...]