Solar skills go offshore
FOR many people, solar energy has always been the quintessential renewable energy.
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Rice-Sized Solar Panels Produced Noodle-Sized Power
Researchers have developed some of the tiniest solar cells ever made and said on Thursday the organic material could potentially be painted on to surfaces.
Panasonic to Buy Sanyo
Panasonic Corp., the world’s largest maker of consumer electronics, will seek to buy control of Sanyo Electric Co. as it expands into the solar power business, the Nikkei newspaper reported without citing its sources.
US solar cell plant
In the thick of Oregon’s “silicon forest” and far from his home in Germany, SolarWorld founder Frank Asbeck walked through his company’s newest plant Friday with the excitement of a child in a toy factory.
Powergie offers ’sunny future’ with new solar energy systems
Tuncmatik, operating in the Turkish energy business for 40 years, is hoping to play a larger role in Turkey’s energy generation market with its new Powergie brand, created in partnership with Japanese electronics giant Kyocera. With “photovoltaic” technology that produces electricity from sunlight, Powergie aims to produce reliable low-cost energy for the Turkish market.
Solar Texile
Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.
