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IntertechPira’s 2nd annual concentrating solar thermal power conference to be held May 5-7 in San Diego
IntertechPira is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Concentrating SolarThermal Power 2010 conference, scheduled for May 5-7, 2010 at the HotelSolamar in San Diego, CA. This year’s program will addressopportunities and challenges for large scale solar electric generationthrough concentrated solar power thermal (CST) technologies. Key topicsto be covered include an introduction to the current market [...]
Themes From The ASPO Peak Oil Conference
One of the more interesting themes that emerged from this year’sASPO peak oil conference was the problems of maintaining complexsystems, and the role that energy plays in them. Dr. Jason Bradford, the biology brains behind Farmland LP (more on that here), ticked off a few of the key vulnerabilities of the U.S. food system in [...]
PV Power Plants 2009 Conference Focuses On Large-Scale Projects
PV Power Plants 2009, organized by Solarpraxis AG, will be held Dec. 10-11 in Las Vegas. Accordingto the organizers, this event is the first conference focusingexclusively on the large solar power plant market segment – systemsrequiring very high capital investment. The conference will addresstechnology, project development and implementation, quality assurance,legal frameworks, financing, markets for large-scale [...]
“There is no such thing as a Moore’s Law in energy”
Every week someone at a conference will suggest, "What we need is aMoore’s Law for energy." It comes right after someone else asks, "Whereis the Google of greentech?" I thus want to give a big thumbs up to Vivek Mehra, a partner atAugust Capital and co-founder of Cobalt Networks, for publicly andeloquently stating what some [...]
Intersolar – Munich 2009
We just got back from the Intersolar show on Friday and what anamazing experience it was to see the scale of solar energy industry.More than 1,400 manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and service providersfrom all over the world were exhibiting there in nine giant halls withover 100,000 square meters of exhibition space and an estimated 60,000visitors. Overall [...]
Solar 2009–Someone Forgot the Hope
I attended the ASES conference in Buffalo, NY lastweek. The tone was much less exuberant than last year’s conference inSan Diego when oil prices were still rising ~$1/day. A lot has improvedfor the solar industry over the last year—in terms of actuallegislation passed, the pace of solar installations in states likeCalifornia, and the tone of [...]
New Kyocera solar Panels are Coming
Kyocera is getting ready to present two brand new solar photovoltaic panels at the end of this month at Intersolar 2009 in Munich, Germany.The KD185GH-2PU and the frameless FD135GH-2P polycrystalline solarpanels are composed of "high performance" solar cells which hasefficiencies of up to 16%. Higher efficiency solar panels means youwill be able to harvest more [...]
Solarmer Energy, Inc. to Announce Champion Efficiency Results at Organic Photovoltaics Conference
PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire – April 24, 2009) – Solarmer Energy,Inc., a leading developer of organic photovoltaics, will present theirnew independently verified top-end efficiency of 6.31% at 2009′sOrganic Photovoltaics conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. YueWu, Solarmer’s Director of Research and Development, will present theseresults and Solarmer’s progress toward the manufacture of plastic solarcells. This accomplishment further reinforces [...]
PV Industry Pioneer Stanford “Stan” Ovshinsky Speaks At BIPV Summit
Stanford "Stan" Ovshinsky, now 86-years old, is theYoda of the solar market. In his words, "I lived through the greatdepression but I didn’t know what was that great about it." He, along with his wife, co-founded ECD in 1960 and are some of the pioneers of renewable energy technology. He’s the inventor of ECD’s flexible solar (triplejunction [...]