L.L.Bean Installs Solar Panels at Flagship Store

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Excerpt: AUGUSTA, MAINE -  ­ L.L.Bean has long been recognized as an outdoor company with strong environmental values. In 2007 the company joined the EPA's Climate Leaders Program and formalized a corporate goal to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 20 percent by 2012. In addition to ongoing cost …

NASA Technology Translates Into Self-Cleaning Solar Panels

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Excerpt: Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists today present …

Solar Power Inverter Supply More Power For Short Periods

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Excerpt: Compact and robust true or pure Sine Wave Inverters. The Power Inverter are designed to supply 2-3 times more power for short periods. The 12VDC Sine Wave Inverters are all software-controlled, thereby ensuring that batteries, the unit itself and associated applications are utilised in an optima …

Thin-Film CIGS Solar Cell Sets New Efficiency

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Excerpt: Researchers from the Germany Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) have broken a new efficiency record for thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide solar cells.The researchers produced a 20.3 percent efficient cell, only a fraction less than the best multi-crystalline cells o …

Controller Tracks the Sun for PV Panels

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Excerpt: In a solar thermal power generation system, sunlight is concentrated onto a receiver that uses the heat to turn water into steam, which rotates a turbine and generates electricity. By controlling the angle of the heliostat so it tracks the movement of the sun, it is possible to precisely fo …

PV Vision Sensor Identifies Smallest Solar Cell Inconsistencies

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Excerpt: SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH (Wieden, Germany) expanded its program of vision sensors by adding a solution for photovoltaics: The new vision solar sensor FA 46 is the only sensor in its price category available on the market that measures each individual cell and is consequently able to ident …

Fused Quartz, A Critical Component Of The Solar Power Industry

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Excerpt: As the photovoltaic industry advances, the use of fused quartz becomes more vital, in creating thin films and silicon chips as well as manufacturing and laboratory ware.Much of the success of sustainable energy sources depends on the achievement of improved efficiencies, and photovoltaics are …

19% Efficient Screen-Printed 6″ Solar Cell

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Excerpt:Sunways AG has developed its high-efficiency silicon solar cell with screen-printing metallisation and an efficiency of more than 19% further from the 5" format to the 6" standard format.In March this year a monocrystalline solar cell with screen-printing metallisation and more than …

New platform for PV production flexibility

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Excerpt:A high-throughput metallization product for commercial solar cell production will be released in September. The Eclipse platform is manufactured by DEK Solar, a supplier of products for commercial photovoltaic cell manufacture, and incorporates a series of field retrofittable process modules …

New Solar Cell Generates Electricity Via Sun’s Light & Heat

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Excerpt: A team of scientists has invented a new type of solar cell that converts both the sun's heat and light into electricity, potentially giving a boost to the efficiency of solar energy harvesting devices. The cell combines a photovoltaic process that turns light into electricity with another that c …