Solar thermal magazine August 2013 | Page 5 of 15
Does a Solar Powered Brewery mean a Solar Ale? SunMaxx Solar manufactured and installed a solar hot water system at Cooper’s Cave Ale Company in Glen Falls, NY. It is the first brewery in the state to install a Solar Thermal Hot Water Heating System.336×280 mixed SunMaxx Solar engineers designed a custom system to facilitate…
Solar Photovoltaic Projects in Ontario Change Hands. Fiera Axium Infrastructure Canada II L.P. announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 100% equity interest in four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects from Ontario Solar PV Fields Inc. a joint venture formed between QCells SE and Photowatt, a subsidiary of ATS Automation Tooling Systems. Once constructed, the projects…
Two Solar PV Projects in California. CARLSBAD, California. NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, today announced that two of the solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities the company acquired from Recurrent Energy earlier this year have reached commercial operation. The two California based solar PV facilities, totaling 40 megawatts (AC), deliver…
Solar Industry News Australia. Clenergy was successful in obtaining judgement against the Chinese company, Grace Solar, on 16th May 2013 in the Federal Court of Australia. The Court made a public declaration that Grace Solar had infringed one of Clenergy’s certified innovation patents by selling a roof mounting system product with the rail and clamp. The Court also granted Clenergy…
Distributed Thermal Energy Storage into the Grid. GLENDALE, Calif. (August 20, 2013) — Ice Energy today announced full deployment of a regional energy storage program contributing capacity toward Southern California Edison’s state mandated 50 MW of energy storage. Thirty-three Ice Bears, the first of which came online in November 2012, are in place meeting summer…
Solar Power in the Workplace. We are already beginning to see a number of implementations of Solar energy creep their way into everyday applications, and as this positive trend continues, what does the future hold for the workplace? Large businesses often demand a large amount of energy for servers, work stations and all other aspects of running a…
Solar Industry News. Clenergy, the solar park solutions provider, has recently been issued certificate BBA 0140 for the Microgeneration Certificate Scheme MCS 012 standard of fixing solar panels on roofs using its PV-ezRack SolarRoof Pro range of roof mounting systems, well ahead of the planned March 2014 rollout. SolarRoof Pro is the company’s roof-mounting solution suitable for most types of…
MIT may have the secret to large scale solar energy storage CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The device, they say, may one day enable cheaper, large-scale energy storage. The palm-sized prototype generates three times as much power…
Lower Energy Bills from a Breakthrough Solar Technology a Game Changer. Base-load capable solar at a cost close to coal Clean, renewable, cost-competitive and dependable energy from the sun will soon be a reality. “This is a technology that will change the world,” says Tom Beck, president of SHEC Energy Corporation of Saskatoon. Beck says SHEC Energy has spent…
Moving Closer to Low Cost Solar Hydrogen Water-Splitting. SANTA BARBARA, CA – August 20, 2013 – HyperSolar, Inc. (OTC:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, today announced that its artificial photosynthesis technology is now capable of producing 1.0 volt open circuit voltage for use…
