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Phoenix Solar builds solar park in Greece with peak power of 2 MW
Phoenix Solar E.P.E., the Greek subsidiary of Phoenix Solar AG, aninternational photovoltaic system integrator listed on the GermanTecDAX, has signed its largest contract to date for the construction of a grid-connected photovoltaic plant. Phoenix Solar is to build asolar power plant with a peak power of two megawatts in the vicinity ofNafpaktos in central Greece [...]
High School Students Build Solar Boat
A team of design engineering students at the Royalton High Schoolhave crafted a sustainable zero-emission boat that is powered by onboard solar panels. Christened Tropheus, the boat was made from the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society’s annual solar regatta. The boat received first place trophy for innovative design and took a second place trophy in the [...]
Exelon Builds Chicago’s Largest Solar Plant
Illinois-based Exelon Power has unveiled the nation’s largest urban solar power plant in Chicago.The project, called Exelon City Solar, has been built at the cost of $60 million and carries 32,292 solar photovoltaic panels to convert solarenergy into usable electricity. With an output of 14,000MWh, the solar plant can meet the annualenergy requirements of up [...]
NREL Builds Zero-Energy Office Building
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) new, 222,000-square-foot Research Support Facility (RSF) onthe NREL campus is a zero-energy facility. That is, it will generate as much energy as it uses, even though thebuilding contains more than 800 people, all using computers, monitors,printers, faxes, copiers, and scanners to generate an almostunbelievable number of FLOPS (FLoating point [...]
Phoenix Solar AG builds solar park in Brandenburg
Phoenix Solar AG, a leading photovoltaic system integrator listed on the German TecDAX, has built a photovoltaic power plant with a peak powerof 14.4 megawatts (MWp) for Hamburg-based LUXCARA Asset Management GmbH, to be ramped up to 18 MWp in a second construction phase. Thefirst 14.4 MWp have been connected to the grid of the [...]
Conergy builds one of the largest PV plants in India
The Hamburg based company, Conergy AG, has erected in India one of thelargest photovoltaic plants in the country. With the3-megawatt-strong power plant, Conergy will contribute considerably tothe power supply of the local rural population around the small town ofItnal situated in the province of Karnataka in the future. As in manyremote regions, the power supply [...]
NREL Builds One of the World’s Most Efficient Buildings
Net zero buildings – which consume so little power that they takenothing from the grid– have been the holy grail of energy efficiencyexperts for years. Now the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) has taken on the challenge of designing and constructing one ofthe world’s most energy-efficient, net zero buildings – the NREL’s ownnew [...]
Pure Power Builds Most Powerful Mobile Solar Power System
Pure Power Distribution of Santa Monica, California (www.PurePowerD.com) has announced that it has designedand built its most powerful Mobile Solar Power System™ to date, theS-48T, in time to provide power for some of the current filming of thelatest Warner Bros. film. The S-48T provides 600 Amps of clean solar powerfor 12 hours, enough to power [...]