BioSolar’s Breakthrough BioBacksheet Certified by UL for sale to solar manufacturers

World’s first bio-based backsheet Approved for Commercial Sales World’s first bio-based backsheet BioSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, has recently reported that the company received the long awaited provisional Relative Thermal Index (RTI) recognition from [...]

Imec Starts European FP7 project X10D for development of OPV cells with increased efficiency at lower costs

Imec and its 16 project partners have recently  announced that they have launched the European FP7 project X10D, a project aiming at developing tandem organic solar cells with an increased conversion efficiency and lifetime, and a decreased production cost. The ultimate goal of the X10D project is to bring organic photovoltaic technologies (OPV) towards introduction [...]

Phoenix Solar Constructs Solar Energy plants for Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm

  Solar power plants with a peak output totalling 477 kilowatts on the roof of a new multi-function building Built with Phoenix Solar’s TectoFlat installation system Phoenix Solar AG (ISIN DE000A0BVU93), a leading international photovoltaic system integrator listed in Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has been commissioned by the utility company Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm [...]

SOLON And UniSource Energy Services to To Build 10MW Solar Photovoltaic Array near Kingman, Arizona

  SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants in the U.S., will build a 10-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array near Kingman, Arizona, to provide affordable renewable power to customers of UniSource Energy Services (UES). SOLON will provide the energy to UES through a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) that [...]

Microalgae And Biofuels Production

Microalgae are heterogeneous group of unicellular organisms, which evolution age is 3.5 billion years. They are also called phytoplankton or cyan bacteria. Through photosynthesis they convert the visible light and carbon dioxide (CO2) in chemical energy of the carbohydrates and separate atmosphere oxygen (O2). They are considerably more efficient converter of the solar radiation than [...]

UK Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)

Description The United Kingdom implemented in March 2011 the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to reduce carbon emissions, meet UK renewable energy targets and impulse the transition to a low carbon economy. The programme presents two main phases and supports both the household and commercial heat generators. In the first phase, a long term feed-in tariff [...]

Mini Production Law (Decree Law 34/2011) – Portugal

The Mini Production Law regulates the production of electricity from renewable energy sources in small units of less or equal to 250 kW, utilizing only one type of technology and excluding the Microproduction, co-generation units and innovation and proof of concept systems. ESCOs are allowed to apply to this Law. The regulation simplifies the licensing [...]