Photovoltaic Systems

Archive for May, 2008

Two teams of scientists working separately, both studying the nanowire technology, discovered two different ways to use nanowires in the solar cells efficiency-boosting process. The first one from the UC San Diego created hair solar cells, meaning that they are of microscopical sizes. They play the role of nanowires, completing thus very small circuits.
The first [...]

StatoilHydro, a Norwegian oil company, will start building the first deepwater floating wind turbine. The construction will begin next year and it will be placed off Norway’s coast. StatoilHydro will invest about $80 million in the test project called Hywind.

There are many offshore wind turbines across the world, but this is the first to be [...]

Florida, as we all know, has plenty of sunlight, most of the time, but unlike Californians, which developed many projects in order to use it, they seem to have just forgotten about the enormous sunpower potential they have. The ‘Sunshine State’ has finally awaken recently and decided to build the world’s largest college-based solar farm.

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The community from Rock Port, Missouri is celebrating their accomplishment of being ‘100% wind powered’. The energy comes from four wind turbines built on agricultural lands that are estimated to produce 16 million kilowatt hours. The town is expected to use 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year.

The energy surplus will be sent to [...]