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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
SEVEN DAYS OF SOLAR by Bruce Mulliken, Green Energy News
Solar energy technologies installed today may be quite different than technologies installed 10 or 20 years from now. Next up in solar evolution may be new photovoltaic materials now only in the laboratory.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced that they’ve fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area. The material, described in the journal Chemistry of Materials, could be used to develop transparent solar panels or even windows that absorb solar energy to generate electricity.
According to a press release, “The material consists of a semiconducting polymer doped with carbon-rich fullerenes. Under carefully controlled conditions, the material self-assembles to form a reproducible pattern of micron-size hexagon-shaped cells over a relatively large area (up to several millimeters).”
Moreover the scientists say the process to make the material in the lab can be scaled-up to mass production. Read more about the material here.
This week this publication received announcements for more than 708 megawatts of large scale solar capacity as being completed, under construction, or in the development pipeline in the U.S.
A note on the above numbers: New capacity listed under “Completed” are obviously delivering new clean power. Those listed as “Under construction” are likely to eventually be delivering new clean power, but anything can happen and a project can be halted at any time. Those listed as “In the development pipeline” can be iffy. Developers would like to see them built, of course, but again anything can happen to stop the project.
Completed.
--- BP Solar and BP Alternative Energy donated almost 300, 215-watt solar modules to Stanford University that were installed on two new buildings anchoring the university’s Science and Engineering Quad in Stanford, California.
The Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering are the latest additions to Stanford’s state of the art facilities. The rooftop solar installations with a rated capacity of 60.2 kW together will provide more than 2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity over their lives.
DRI Energy, of Irvine, California, installed the panels.
DRI Energy http://www.dricompanies.com
--- Choate Construction Company has recently commissioned a Solyndra 74-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) energy system for their Headquarters building located at Northridge Plaza. The Solyndra system is now the largest in the Southeast and was designed and installed by Empower Energy Technology.
Solyndra designs and manufactures proprietary cylindrical modules incorporating copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film technology. Their panels employ cylindrical modules which capture sunlight across a 360-degree photovoltaic surface capable of converting direct, diffuse and reflected sunlight into electricity.
The solar energy system can be visited on the web in real time at Choate Solar.
Choate Solar http://www.choatesolar.com
Empower Energy Technology http://www.empoweret.com
--- Cogenra Solar has unveiled a solar cogeneration project at the Sonoma Wine Company in Graton, California. The 272-kW installation is now supplying renewable heat and electricity to support the company’s winery operations. The historic commissioning represents the first commercial-scale installation of its kind, combining proven photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies in one solar array in an important move toward more affordable and efficient utilization of solar energy.
The solar cogeneration installation employs 15 individual Cogenra SunBase (tm) modules to displace approximately 64,000 kilowatt-hours and 12,500 therms of natural gas annually. The solar thermal element will heat water to 165ƒF to sustainably fuel Sonoma Wine Company’s wine tank wash and wine barrel washing system.
Cogenra Solar http://www.cogenra.com
--- Green Mountain Power (GMp) has completed three new major solar systems bringing its total to five. The new installations include a 150 kW system at Shelburne Farms, a 138 kW system at the GMP Montpelier Service Center's rooftop and a 200 kW solar array installation at the company's Berlin facility, currently the largest in the state.
The utility company’s two other arrays equal 62 kW. With the new installations GMP has exceeded its goal of installing and helping its customers install 10,000 solar panels in 1,000 days.
Green Mountain Power http://www.greenmountainpower.com
--- Solar Service, of Niles, Illinois has announced the completion of the largest privately owned commercial photovoltaic solar panel installation in that state. The company has designed, installed and provided the grant writing for the 153kW project at United Displaycraft headquarters in Des Plaines .
United Displaycraft expects the solar system to pay for itself in four to five years. With a grant from the state of illinois and federal tax incentives the project will deliver over 25 years of electricity at an amortized cost of less than seven cents per kilowatt hour.
Solar Service http://www.solarserviceinc.com
(info taken from http://www.green-energy-news.com)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Go Green On A budget
In this blog I will be giving links to experts in green energy. I personally am not an expert but have found many websites that have helped me go green for cheap. In the long run I have even made money using some of these techniques.
Go ahead and check out some of these websites and get the inside info on how to go green.
Solar Energy
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Solar and Wind
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Some more
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Go ahead and check out some of these websites and get the inside info on how to go green.
Solar Energy
Click Here!
Solar and Wind
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Some more
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