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Changing the face of Solar Power Storage for Home or Business. “We are going to unveil the Tesla home battery, the consumer battery that would be for use in people’s houses or businesses fairly soon,” Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said during an earnings conference call with analysts Wednesday. Combining solar panels with large, efficient […]
Trends 2014 in Photovoltaic (PV) Applications, IEA PV Solar Report IEA released the latest edition of Photovoltaic Power Systems Program report, briefing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market in addition to country- and region-specific solar PV markets, learned from Clean Technica. Basically, many of the charts show that China, […]
Solar Power: Better technology and lower prices! It’s time to consider solar power again. Better technology and lower prices are making solar power in 2014 achievable and more affordable than in the past. Two types of solar power are available – thermal collectors heat air and water; photovoltaic (photo – light and voltaic – electrical […]
Ergon Energy, the networks distributor for more than 90 per cent of Queensland, has explained why it wants to keep any new solar installations off the grid, and has introduced new rules to stop such exports. The response came to our story on Friday – Utilities move to kick solar off the grid – which highlighted how […]
Think those flat, glassy solar panels on your neighbour’s roof are the pinnacle of solar technology? Think again. “The field has moved fast, and keeps moving fast, but we need to work toward bringing performance to commercially compelling levels” Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have […]
One of the largest solar companies in the world has chosen Australia as the proving ground for a new model of power production that promises to give householders more control – and cut bills. ‘WHAT DO YOU DO when the sun doesn’t shine?’ It’s been one of the criticisms levelled at the solar panels that […]
CyboEnergy Releases an Off-Grid CyboInverter to Power Electric Water Heaters with Solar Energy CyboEnergy, Inc. (Rancho Cordova, CA), announced today that it has released the off-grid CyboInverter H model, which is specially designed to power electric water heaters or electric heating elements. CyboEnergy CEO, Dr. George Cheng said, “For people who use electric water heaters […]
An electric cooperative in Minnesota is investing in a community solar initiative, hoping its members will benefit from it for years to come. In December, Lake Region Electric Cooperative launched the program giving its members the chance to buy part of the solar output from the HQ Prairie solar project built at the co-op’s headquarters. “We followed […]
Maximizing solar cells With silicon solar cells set to become a thing of the past, a Flinders University researcher has developed a novel computer system to find the best emerging carbon nanotubes to fuel the future. As part of his PhD, postdoctoral research fellow Dr Daniel Tune has designed a computer modelling system that shows which combination […]
Is clean energy a victim of its own success, or is the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy just going through some natural growing pains? However you spin it, in places like Hawaii and Germany, rooftop solar panels are popping up like weeds – but at a rate that might be too fast for […]
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