next time you see such a system, take a good look…maybe even a picture. There’s a new kind of solar panel that could soon make today’s standard model look as old as your father’s walkman: thin-film solar panels.
Here at GetSolar, we deal mostly with putting solar panels on or beside buildings. Occasionally, however, we talk about putting solar on other things, like luggage, radios, ipods and iphones, bluetooth headsets, helmets and even summer vacation. This next one, I have to admit, is especially cool and intriguingly practical. It’s a solar-powered camera strap [...]
Late last week, Juwi Solar, a Colorado-based engineering, procurement and constuction (EPC) contractor of solar power plants in North America, announced that it had completed a 12.6 megawatt (MW), 77-acre thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar plant in Ohio’s Wyandot County.
This technological development could be the most import since EUREKA’s founding. The partnership project, led by Intemper Espanola, has found a way to make nearly invisible solar film at an affordable price.
Royal Caribbean is bringing solar power to sea in a whole new way. The Miami-based cruise line operator has installed some 21,000 square feet of solar thin film on Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship. The $750,000 solar installation was completed by BAM Solar Power, a solar enegy installation outfit based in Jacksonville, [...]
The solar industry’s recovery is just over the horizon, with help from U.S. stimulus funds, new government projects and new methods of financing—or that’s how an executive from solar powerhouse Sharp Corp. sees it, anyway. “I call it a warming up,” Ron Kenedi, vice president of Sharp Solar Energy Solutions Group, said in an interview [...]
