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The Solimpeks Hybrid Solar Power Collector
A new product launched by a Turkish solar company called Solimpeks offers an ingenious solution to homeowners who would like to benefit from own solar power. The company’s Volther is a hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The company said in a press statement that the hybrid system allows extra [...]
The Solar Powered Water Collector and Purifier Concept
With more than a billion people on our planet still striving hardfor fresh water, industrial designers have started thinking of new waysto quench the thirst of these individuals using natural resources.Designers Chun Yen Tsao and Hsing-Tan Yang have created a concept watercollector and purifier that works using solar energy and can one dayhelp provide safe [...]
World’s First Solar Collector Slate from Cupa Group
Cupa Group, the Spain’s largest construction materials company has come up with the world’s first solar collector slate that is just perfect for any kindsof roofing. The solar slates, dubbed as Thermoslate, not only harnesssolar energy, but are structurally superb as well. Aside from adding more than two-third of the energy needs of ACS(Hot Water) [...]
Solimpeks’ Hybrid Solar Collector
Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its latest version of a hybrid solar collector, aphotovoltaic (PV) panel that simultaneously produces electricity andheats water. Problems with Conventional PV Solar: Solar water heating has been around for a long time; so have PV panels — and all thefrustrations that come with them. In particular, performancedeterioration due to high [...]
Free Hot Water Solar Thermal Collector Gets Certified
Free Hot Water, a San Jose, California-based solar company, recentlyreceived a seal of approval that qualifies its newest model of solarthermal collectors for state rebate programs. About a month ago, the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation(SRCC) OK’d the solar manufacturer’s 7000 series solar collector toreceive an OG-100 certification. Many federal and state solar incentive programs [...]
The SunReports Solar Panel Data Collector
If you’vespent thousands of dollars on solar panel system you probably want toknow how well it’s working. At least this is what SunReports was banking on when they invested in the development and production of theirsoon-to-hit-the-market solar panel data collector. The SunReports solar power assessment tool is both a piece of hardware that you runyour [...]
Solar Millennium Begins Testing HelioTrough Radiation Collector Tech
Solar Trust of America LLC, an integrated industrial solar solutionscompany, says that its wholly owned subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has begun testingHelioTrough, its parabolic trough solar radiation collector technology,at an existing solar power plant in the southwestern U.S. Thetesting is designed to assess performance efficiency under commercialoperating conditions before being deployed at proposed solar thermalenergy [...]
TiSUN, Lochinvar Collaborate On New Solar Thermal Collector
TiSUN, a Tyrol, Austria-based developer and seller of solar thermal collectors and solar stratified tanks, has entered into an agreement with Lochinvar Corp., a Lebanon, Tenn.-headquartered manufacturer of water heaters, boilers and pool heaters. TiSUNplans to send an executive from its technical department to the U.S. towork with Lochinvar on a solar thermal system suitable [...]
SunTrac Solar: Building a Better Solar Collector
If you build a better solar collector, will the world beat a path to your door? That’s what SunTrac Solar, of Golden, Colorado, is hoping. SunTrac has made a dramatic improvement to solar technology bydeveloping a system that combines photovoltaic (PV) panels with theadvantages of parabolic solar systems. Parabolic collectorsare constructed with long parabolic mirrors [...]