Articles Tagged with ''solar power''

World clean energy investment increased strongly in 2014, jumping 16 percent, boosted by demand for large-scale and rooftop solar photovoltaic systems on the back of its greatly improved competitiveness, and by the financing of a record $19.4 billion of offshore wind projects.

Since their introduction in 2006, solar tax credits have been extended through 2016 and caps on subsidies to residential customers have been removed. Despite economic challenges, these policies have underpinned moderate growth in solar water heater installations in the U.S. over the past five years, according to a report from IBISWorld.

Here's how wet heat technology helped a large college apartment building reach LEED-Silver certification, a Kentucky high school save up to 35 percent in monthly utility costs, and a local pizza restaurant go green.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced the demonstration of a 45.7 percent conversion efficiency for a four-junction solar cell at 234 suns concentration. NREL said this is one of the highest photovoltaic research cell efficiencies achieved across all types of solar cells.

The California Energy Commission approved $13.5 million for energy efficiency measures to 14 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin County, and Orange County. The Energy Commission also approved grants to four entities to develop and research alternative and renewable fuel projects.

Solar power is growing so fast across the United States that 10 percent solar capacity is seen as achievable by 2030, according to a new report by Environment America Research & Policy Center.

APS microinverters have joined the product offerings of CFM Equipment Distributors and US Solar Distributing in a new agreement between the companies.

Fortinet has flipped the switch on a 900 kW solar electric system which blankets its Santa Clara, California, corporate campus. The company’s commitment to sustainable business practices is now exhibited with the installation of this solar energy system which covers two rooftops and three parking lots.

Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) system prices dropped by 12-19 percent nationwide in 2013, according to the third edition of a jointly written report on PV pricing trends from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products has collaborated with SolarUS to launch a new biobased heat transfer fluid. The new fluid, So-Blu, will offer solar thermal system owners freeze, corrosion, and extreme heat protection resulting in increased system and equipment efficiency and lifespan, said the companies.