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Solar Reliability Examined by ASU Polytechnic Project
Students from Arizona State University Polytechnic recently partnered with SRP on a solar energy project that is expected to make green energy sources more reliable. Many people are confused about solar energy, and believe that residential solar power systems are independent and immune to a widespread outage, according to the Arizona Republic. In reality, most [...]
ASU: The Solar University
ASU is breaking ground as the most solar university in the United States, covering just about everything the brutal desert sun hits with electricity-harvesting silicon cells. And we mean everything — buildings, parking lots, classrooms — even students’ faces! All right, maybe not quite that far. Artist’s impression of what Face Solar would look [...]
SunPower to Install C7 Tracker System at ASU
SunPower Corp. will deploy a 1-megawatt solar power plant using its new C7 Tracker concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology at Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) Polytechnic campus in Mesa, Ariz. It’s the first commercial-scale deployment for the system, which promises to lower the cost of SunPower’s photovoltaics by using less PV cells. The array is being designed [...]
ASU Solar Now Exceeds 10MW of PV
As of Sept. 6, the four-campus Arizona State University (ASU) system had more than 10 megawatts (MWs) of photovoltaics (PV) installed and operational, making it the biggest higher education user of solar power. And they have more on the way. With the commissioning of a new 168-kilowatt solar installation at the Verde Dickey Dome ASU’s [...]
ASU Powers Half of Campus With Solar
In 2004, Arizona State University installed it’s first photovoltaic (PV) solar energysystem at its main campus in Tempe, Arizona. Since then, ASU has beenmaking steady progress toward carbon neutrality. The commitment starts at the top with University President Michael Crow, who is one of the founding backers of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. In late April, Crow [...]
The Next Generation of Solar
Arizona State University and Advent Solar, Inc. announced a developmentpartnership to further the advancement of solar photovoltaictechnology. As part of the initiative, members of Arizona StateUniversity’s Solar Power Laboratory will work with Advent Solar, aleading innovator of silicon-based solar technology, to developsolutions for improving energy harvesting of solar systems. The AdventSolar initiative with ASU signals [...]