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TÜV Rheinland inaugurates India’s first and South Asia’s largest PV lab in Bangalore
TÜV Rheinland, a leading global provider of technical, safety andcertification services is eyeing a larger share of the Indian market for PV testing and certification. The company has set up India’sfirst and South Asia’s largest PV laboratory at Electronic city inBangalore which was formally inaugurated today. Seventh in TÜVRhineland’s global network of solar testing labs [...]
New Solar Panel Test Lab Coming to New Mexico
What better place to test the performance of solar panels thansun-soaked New Mexico? CFV Solar Test Labotory — a photovoltaic (PV) test company jointlyowned by CSA Group, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, the Fraunhofer USA Centerfor Sustainable Energy Systems CSE and VDE Testing and CertificationInstitute — will open a new laboratory in Albuquerque, [...]
Spray-On Solar in the Works at UC Berkeley Lab
Berkeley, California has played host to a number of nation-shapingmovements in recent decades, from civil rights protests, to treesittings, to building takeovers. But is it possible that years fromnow, people will be looking at this nonconforming East Bay city as theepicenter of modern solar power? A number of scientists at the University of California at Berkeleythink so, as their work [...]
Natcore signs deal with Chinese consortium to take its solar technology from lab to power grid
Natcore Technology Inc. has reached an agreement with a consortium inChina to form a joint venture company to develop and manufacturefilm-growth equipment and materials using Natcore’s proprietary LiquidPhase Deposition (LPD) technology. The technology would be used in the production of solar cells.Natcorehas signed a letter of intent with the Zhuzhou Hi-Tech IndustrialDevelopment Zone to form [...]
Nanosolar Hits 16.4 Percent Efficiency in Lab
MountainView. Nanosolar, the heavily-funded copper indium gallium selenide(CIGS) solar panel maker, is going commercial, says co-founder BrianSager. "We’re past our R&D. The whole idea here is to buy multiplelines of manufacturing equipment and scale as the market demands," hesaid during an impromptu meeting after a press conference for CobaltBiofuels. "We’re really only limited by market [...]
Inside Professor Peter Peumans Solar Lab
Professor Peter Peumans of Stanford University spoke on Wednesday evening at the SVPVS (Silicon Valley Photovoltaic Society) on approaches to lowering the cost of solar energy conversion. Peumansis an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford andDeputy Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP).He is an expert in solar cell modeling and characterization [...]
Sunlight Solar Installs PV System At CT Nature Lab
Sunlight Solar Energy Inc., a solar electric and solar hot water installation contractor with an office in Milford, Conn., has installed a 35 kW solar electric system atop the John Dorr Nature Laboratory in Washington, Conn. Thesystem, comprising 105 SunPower 305 W panels, is estimated to supplyabout one-quarter of the building’s electrical needs. The installationwas [...]