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Spire Solar to Showcase its Products at PHOTON’s PV Technology Show

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing production equipment and turnkey manufacturing lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, and engineering, procurement and construction services for solar systems, announced its senior management team will exhibit at PHOTON’s 6th Photovoltaic Technology Show 2010 Europe from April 27 through 29 in Stuttgart, Germany.

23 Apr 2010

Pro-Tech Successfully Installs Solar System at English Creek Facility

Pro-Tech Energy Solutions LLC, a self-funded energy services company serving the Mid-Atlantic region's commercial properties, today announced the successful installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system in Egg Harbor, NJ at the self storage facility, English Creek.

23 Apr 2010

SunPower and Flextronics to Start Solar Panel Production in California

In a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Flextronics (Nasdaq: FLEX) today, SunPower Corp. (SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced that it has partnered with Flextronics to begin manufacturing solar panels in Milpitas, Calif. by the end of this year.

23 Apr 2010

Constellation Energy to Install Solar System at McCormick Facility in Maryland

Constellation Energy and McCormick & Company, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop a new 1.8-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic power system at the McCormick distribution center in Belcamp, Md.

23 Apr 2010

Panda, Con Edison to Develop Two Solar PV Farms

Panda Solar Ventures LLC, an affiliate of Panda Energy International Inc., and Con Edison Development, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc., today announced that they have signed an agreement to develop, construct and operate utility-scale solar electric power projects in the northeast United States.

23 Apr 2010

Scientists Develop Artificial Negative-Index Optical Material for Use in Solar Cells

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a metamaterial—with a particular three-dimensional structure such that light exhibits a negative index of refraction upon entering the material.

23 Apr 2010

UC San Diego Student Designs New Solar Concentrator with Fewer PV Cells

A new solar concentrator design from an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego could lead to solar concentrators that are less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators.

23 Apr 2010

UJI Wins Bid for New Solar Cell Research Project

After responding to a call for proposals, the research group led by Juan Bisquert at Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has won the bid for a scientific and technological research project on new types of solar cells based on nanotechnologies.

22 Apr 2010

Nano-Based Solar Cell Developers Look for Opportunities in Cleantech

Environment and energy, or "cleantech," applications have become a target for more and more companies developing intermediate products, like batteries and solar cells, based on nanotechnology -- products called "nanointermediates."

22 Apr 2010

IKEA Plans to Install Solar Panels on Arizona Store Roof

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced that a solar energy system is planned for its store in Tempe, Arizona.

22 Apr 2010

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