Cogenra says its T14 low-concentration PV system has a module cost of around fifty cents per watt for utility-scale installations; a Tucson project will soon use it.
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First Solar Wants A Piece Of Japanese PV Pie
Japan’s burgeoning solar market beckons, and thin-film, utility-scale specialist First Solar answers the call – with crystalline silicon?
Huge US-Backed Solar Plant At Full Power
You can call it another loan-guarantee success story: One of the world’s biggest solar PV plants is fully operational in California.
Big Solar, From Canada To The California Desert
First Solar will build a 250-megawatt solar power plant in the California desert, while work begins on Canada’s largest PV project ever.
Renewable Energy Patents Are Surging
Solar and wind energy technologies see fivefold increases in annual patents, but researchers say policy support will be needed to keep the ball rolling.
Solar Is Google’s Lucky 13th Clean Energy Buy
Google expands its clean energy portfolio again, buying a piece of the huge Mount Signal solar PV project in Imperial County, California.
Nighttime Solar Power Arriving In United States
Sundown won’t mean the end of power production at the big Solana Generating Station in Arizona, in a testing phase now and about to go into commercial operation.
Giant Solar Tower In California Powers Up
Developers of the Ivanpah power tower project say the plant “produced its first output of energy when the Unit 1 station was synced to the power grid for the first time.”
Big Solar Is Having A Banner Year In US
As of the end of August, new U.S. utility-scale solar capacity for 2013 stood at 1,774 megawatts – already surpassing the 1,476 megawatts installed in all of 2012.
China Solar Edge: Scale, Supply Chain, Not Cheap Labor
Scale and supply-chain advantages are the keys to cheap solar manufacturing in China, a new NREL/MIT study asserts.
Super-Cheap Solar And The Promise Of Perovskite
The claim is that dye-sensitized solar cells that use a new process and the materials perovskite could dramatically lower the price of solar cells.
Obama’s Solar SunShot Could Deliver Big Time
The U.S. program to reduce the price of solar could put emissions reductions and cheaper electricity within reach by 2050, according to new research.
Solar Net-Metering Fight Flares In Colorado
Xcel, Colorado’s largest electricity provider, is seeking net-metering changes that could undervalue solar’s grid benefits and slow its growth.
Solar Powered Mercedes Golf Cart A Nod To Luxury
Mercedes-Benz unveils its vision of the golf cart of tomorrow: electric driven, solar powered and so luxurious you’ll just want to hang out and skip the golf game.