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Hot Solar Offers Effective Solar Paneling Using State-of-the-Art Materials

With each passing day the planet's natural resources are dwindling, with some speculating a complete exhaustion of fossil fuels in the span of fifty years.

24 May 2010

Advanced 25.6kW Solar Array Powers Craig Elementary School in New Orleans

An advanced solar panel array was unveiled Friday at Joseph A. Craig Elementary School, the second project of a partnership between Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), Nike Corporation, Winrock International, the Louisiana Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and the city of New Orleans.

24 May 2010

Trina Solar Teams Up with CGC, TUV Rheinland and UL

Trina Solar Limited (TSL) has declared that at the 2010 global customer conference, its subsidiary Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co. Ltd., have entered into a strategic partnership with China General Certification Centre (CGC), Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) and TUV Rheinland Group (TUV Rheinland).

24 May 2010

Solar Power to Design and Construct 397 kW PV System for BLT

Solar Power, Inc. announced today that it has been contracted by BLT Enterprises to design and construct a 397 kW photovoltaic (“PV”) solar system to provide power for BLT Enterprises’ Fremont Recycling and Transfer Station (“FRTS”) located in Fremont, California.

21 May 2010

FusionSolar from Custom-Bilt Metals

Custom-Bilt Metals and Unique Concepts Inc. declared that a 5.7kw solar system has been built on the recently renovated St. Bartholomew’s Chapel, which is located on the Rincon Reservation, Valley Center, CA. The system is incorporated with standing seam metal roofing. Custom-Bilt Metals has been the environmental leader, which it has achieved by the novelty in its products. Unique Concepts Inc. is a contractor of metal roofing.

21 May 2010

Evergreen’s ES-A Series Solar Panels to be Featured at Genera Solar Show in Spain

Evergreen Solar, Inc. will feature its ES-A series solar panels, now one of the few products in the industry certified for installation in coastal climates, at the Genera Solar Show in Madrid, Spain, May 19-21, 2010.

21 May 2010

enXco Begins 3 MW Pocono Raceway Solar Project

enXco – an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company - has confirmed the start of construction on the 3 MW photovoltaic array at Pocono Raceway Solar Project.

21 May 2010

New Method to Manufacture Semiconductors Used in Solar Cells

Thanks to a new semiconductor manufacturing method pioneered at the University of Illinois, the future of solar energy just got brighter.

21 May 2010

MIT Students Design New Solar Rechargeable Lamp

Surrounded by its inventors, a small, rechargeable lamp rested on a table at the front of an MIT classroom auditorium one recent Saturday afternoon, sending a bright beam of light toward the ceiling.

21 May 2010

Natcore Acquires Vanguard Solar

Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; OTC Pink Sheets: NTCXF) has received approval of the TSX Venture Exchange for the acquisition of Vanguard Solar Inc., thereby closing the acquisition.

21 May 2010

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