SOLAR - RUSSO DAILY

Old Kyoto golf course to be repurposed with 23-Megawatt solar power plant

Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)

Kyocera Corporation has announced that Kyocera TCL Solar has commenced construction of a 23-megawatt (MW) solar power plant on an abandoned golf course in Kyoto...

Colorado's Largest City Chooses Community Solar

Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)

SunShare has announced that 400 kilowatts of solar energy from two of its Denver Community Solar Gardens will soon be powering sixteen City-owned locations. One...

Lockheed Martin solar carport will be Florida's largest private solar array

Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)

With the first phase of the innovative solar carport at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training facility in Oldsmar, Florida completed and phase two cons...

Solar Impulse sets record but faces 'difficult' hours

Jul 02, 2015 (AFP)

A solar-powered aircraft flying from Japan to Hawaii on the most perilous leg of a round-the-globe bid has beaten the record for the longest solo flight, organi...

Solar Impulse two-thirds of way from Japan to Hawaii

Jul 01, 2015 (AFP)

A solar-powered aircraft flying from Japan to Hawaii on the most perilous leg of a round-the-globe bid has passed the two-thirds point, and was under 40 hours f...

Solar Impulse reaches quarter way point in Japan-US flight

Jun 30, 2015 (AFP)

A solar-powered aircraft on a round-the-world flight was high above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, over a quarter of the way to Hawaii after leaving Japan, the miss...

Solar Impulse leaves Japan on delayed Pacific flight

Jun 29, 2015 (AFP)

The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft passed "the point of no return" Monday after it left Japan bound for Hawaii, the most ambitious leg of its quest to c...

Stanford researchers stretch a thin crystal to get better solar cells

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Nature loves crystals. Salt, snowflakes and quartz are three examples of crystals - materials characterized by the lattice-like arrangement of their atoms and m...

UCLA chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology develope...

Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards "the Internet of things" - the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manu...

NRG Renew to Develop 20MW Solar Energy Facility for Cisco

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

NRG Renew LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, has announced plans to develop a 20 megawatt (MW) solar energy facility that will generate clean, reliab...

Solar Impulse could be stuck in Japan for a year: pilot

Jun 25, 2015 (AFP)

A solar-powered plane attempting to fly around the world must cross the Pacific within a few weeks or it could remain stuck in Japan for a year, its pilot said ...

First solar cell made of highly ordered molecular frameworks

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

"We have opened the door to a new room," says Professor Christof Woll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG). "This new application of metal-...

Australian Renewable energy industry crisis is over

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

The legislation for a bipartisan deal on the Renewable Energy Target (RET) has passed through the Australian Parliament tonight, opening the way for Australia t...

CEC launches community solar software platform for utilities

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

Clean Energy Collective (CEC), the company that pioneered roofless community-shared solar, has announced the launch of its Community Solar Platform (CSP), a com...

Solar Impulse Japan take off cancelled

Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)

Mission controllers trying to fly a solar plane around the world cancelled take off from Japan early Wednesday because of weather problems over the Pacific Ocea...

Countryside Renewables to Build 5 MW Solar Project

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Countryside Renewables has received planning permission for its 5.0 MW Gonerby Moor solar project in Lincolnshire. The site is located just outside Grantham and...

Cathay LA Cashes In On LADWP Solar Feed in Tariff

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Vista Solar has announced that it has completed a 450-kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar system for food distributor, Cathay LA. The system at Cathay LA will produce e...

GNB Presents Energy Storage Products at Intersolar

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

GNB, a division of Exide Technologies, is exhibiting at Intersolar Europe, which takes place in Munich, Germany this week. The company is showcasing its batteri...

Imec Presents Large Area Industrial Crystalline Silicon n-PERT Solar Cell

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Nano-electronics research center imec announced at Intersolar Europe, a new efficiency record for its large area n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally d...