SMA announced today the development of a new solar inverter production facility in Denver, Colorado. The annual production capacity of the new facility will be around one gigawatt with an option for expansion.
Meeting late last week in Liverpool at the British wind industry’s annual conference, leaders from the UK power sector business, government and academia signed up to a new sector training and skills route map to train up to 60,000 new technicians and engineers.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation recently announced an initiative to recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric cars for use as energy-storage solutions in applications such as solar power systems
Many Australian business owners are missing out on numerous incentives available for making the switch to solar power
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected Acciona Solar Power and the Clark Energy Group to develop a 500MW solar farm project at Fort Irwin military complex, located in the Mojave Desert, California.
The computer giant, Dell, has announced the completion of construction of a new 516-panel solar farm at its Round Rock, Texas headquarters.
Solar power is often the victim of detractors; sometimes drawing ire from those with a vested interest in maintaining fossil fuel based economies, but also from uninformed parties perpetuating myths or sowing seeds of doubt in relation to renewable energy.
When the current round of UK wind farm projects is completed by 2012, wind energy in the nation will have overtaken nuclear power in installed capacity.
Solar panels are big business and as with any valuable piece of equipment, they are attracting attention from the darker elements of society. Solar panel theft is on the rise; particularly in the USA.
A German entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2009 produced a surplus of power even during three days of rain.
