Micro Inverters for Residential and Commercial Photovoltaics

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Excerpt: Two new solar micro-inverter products for residential and commercial photovoltaic (PV) applications were unveiled recently by Direct Grid Technologies, LLC.“Our initial products feature the OEM and SMART DGA Series micro‐inverters for thin‐film PV manufacturers and original equipment manuf …

Sol Gel Protective Laquer Improves Durability for Concentrated Solar

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Excerpt: Sol Gel protective lacquer significantly improves the durability and performance of its reflective metal surfaces in outdoor applications, says Alanod Solar. Testing data shows that its lacquered MIRO-SUN® product performs at a level equal to that of glass mirrors in both real world and lab tests.T …

Testing Technology Allows Satellites to Utilize Solar Energy

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Excerpt: A special solar panel tester for Thales Alenia Space, the leading developer of satellites and components for space technology, has recently been developed by the Pasan company. The new device simulates the characteristics of the sun in space very accurately. This cliams to guarantee that only the mo …

Solarpaq Provides Temperature Profiles for Solar Cells

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Excerpt: Datapaq designed the innovative SolarPaq systems to provide temperature-profiling solutions for the contact firing, anti-reflective coating and lamination processes. These operations are all key to the quality and performance of the final photovoltaic cell and hence, module. The SolarPaq system tra …

Heat Transfer Appliances for Commercial Solar Thermal

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Excerpt: California based solar hot water manufacturer Heliodyne has introduced its newest line of Plug and Play heat transfer appliances, the Commercial Solar Station (HCOM). The HCOM is a packaged closed-loop heat transfer appliance for accommodating large solar hot water projects of up to 100 flat plate c …

Solar Impulse, a Protoype Solar Airplane

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Excerpt: Engineers from all fields of discipline are working together on the first prototype of the solar power airplane with which Bertrand Piccard, President of 3 S Industries AG and André Borschberg, CEO, plan to fly night and day with no fuel and zero polluting emissions. Important know-how for the sola …

New Technology May Eliminate Large Panels

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Excerpt: Researchers at Georgia Tech. University claim to have found a way to convert sunlight to electricity, which might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells would be needed atop flat surfaces like roofs.Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated with dye-sensit …

Solar Power Plug-N-Go’s Solve Car Problems

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Excerpt: With solar energy on the rise, electric vehicles are slowly using solar energy to supply some of the energy needed for some extra range.  The only real problem with this is the slow speed and low amount of power an easily transportable panel suffers from. A new portable, car-charging station may so …

Next Generation Thin Film Technology Reduces Costs

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Excerpt: Using its next-generation module technology, Applied Materials, Inc. has significantly lowered the cost to their customers for manufacture solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on its SunFab™ Thin Film Line. By leveraging economies of scale and introducing key process efficiencies Applied M …

Solar Power Generator for LED lights

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Excerpt:Larson Electronics' magnalight.com introduced a 400 watt solar powered generator. Configured like a traditional trailer style diesel generator, the wheeled base includes a trailer hitch, rubber torsion axle and pneumatic compressor. The compressor is used to elevate the light mast which can …