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| ET Solar to Supply Solar Modules for a PSE&G PV Project in US |  |
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| RMT Selected by First Wind for Hawaii Wind Farm | |
| RMT Inc. has been selected by First Wind for engineering and construction of its Kahuku Wind energy facility located on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Construction has commenced on the 30-megawatt (MW) project and is expected to be complete by the end of this year. |
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| N.S. regulator opens hearing on proposal to burn wood for power generation | |
| Nova Scotia`s regulatory agency begins hearings today on a proposal to build a biomass-fuelled power generation facility that would help move the province closer to its renewable energy targets. |
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| Sit-in workers open new wind turbine factory | |
| Workers who took part in an occupation of a wind turbine factory which closed with the loss of hundreds of jobs, are to open their own business making turbines just yards from the site of their former employers on the Isle of Wight, it has been announced. |
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| BAE to assist green energy project | |
| Britain`s biggest arms manufacturer will contribute its marine engineering expertise to a wave-power project off Orkney Marine engineering for an innovative wave-power project off Orkney is to be provided by Britain`s biggest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems . |
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| 3TIER Brings Advanced Solar Products to India | |
| 3TIER,® the global leader in renewable energy information services, today announced that its complete suite of solar prospecting and assessment products is now available throughout India. The products are based on 3TIER`s proprietary solar dataset, which is the most advanced and accurate solar dataset that exists for India. The products enable project developers to quantify the long-term availability and variability of solar resources with or without observational data. |
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| Producing high-performance thin-film silicon PV panels | |
| Thin-film silicon solar panels are produced by forming an amorphous silicon (a-Si) film on a glass substrate. Similar to crystalline solar cells, or modules, the a-Si, photovoltaic panels are made from silicon, however, the amount of silicon required is very small: that is, one hundredth or less the amount of the crystalline photovoltaic cells (made from bulk silicon), since only a thin layer of silicon is deposited on a 1.1m x 1.4m glass substrate. For this reason, a-Si thin-film photovoltaic modules have received wide-spread attention as an alternative to crystalline silicon, for various mainstream PV applications. |
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| Textured ZnO enables high-efficiency silicon solar modules | |
| One of the most critical processes for high-efficiency amorphous-microcrystalline thin film silicon solar cells involves the front-side transparent conductive oxide (TCO). This very thin layer scatters the incoming light which increases the fraction of light absorbed in the layer. To date, most production a-Si thin film solar cell designs, both single- and tandem-junction, have relied on commercially available tin oxide (SnO) deposited on glass. We describe a study that shows how improving light-trapping properties with ZnO films enables higher efficiency in large-size thin film solar modules. The experiment used magnetron-sputtered and wet chemically etched zinc oxide (ZnO) films for the front contact. The films were deposited using an Applied ATON physical vapor deposition (PVD) type tool that can be integrated into Applied Materials` a-Si/µc-Si SunFab module production line. |
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| BTEC Commends Legislators for Introduction of Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act | |
| The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) extends its praise to Sens. Al Franken (D-MN.) and Kit Bond (R-MO.) and Reps. Betty McCollum (D-MN.), Jay Inslee (D-WA.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) for introducing the Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act of 2010 in the U.S Senate and House of Representatives (S. 3626 and H.R. 5805, respectively). The legislation would assist in developing renewable heating and cooling projects nationwide. |
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| Top Five Mistakes When Considering Solar Power For Your Home | |
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