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Greedy Fellows!! Do you know what a solar panel is anyway? It is mainly a box that holds an array of solar cells. Solar cells are the things that do the real work of conversion from sunlight into electricity. However, it takes a lot of cells...
When a sweeping power failure blacked out 700 million people in India last July, the cell sites that connect nearly one billion mobile phone users in the country were largely unaffected. The vast majority of Indian cell-phone base stations,...
There is something of the 19th century about Eric Raymond. Devoted to making commercial solar-powered aircraft, he would have thrived in the Victorian heyday of the private inventor. Most fell by the wayside; their ideas outran their ability...
Approximately closely a year ago, during the height of the Solyndra hysteria, Mitt Romney made a rather odd statement about solar. (Yes, we’re still talking about Romney). “When other solar companies saw Solyndra get $530 million from the...
In India it was obvious that there were two ways the country could catch – distribute the boom of solar to help the 300 million citizens still waiting for the grid, or compulsorily integrate a resource that is largely efficient when distributed....
Seeing a flood of solar panels in the market mainly due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flood of local Chinese investment...
The liquidation of about 2 dozen United States and European photovoltaic companies have framed much of the tale about a flood of solar panels and crashing prices over the past year. What’s less known is the impact on the PV manufacturing...
With its nuclear power plants almost shuttered since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, Japan is starting to run towards clean and green energy. On July 1 2012, one of the world’s most aggressive examples of a feed-in tariff (FIT) —...
The Indian government has revealed plans to illuminate more of the capital city’s historic sites using solar power. Among the 6 sites for which new solar power plants will be installed are the 13th century Qutub Minar, the 17th century...
India’s energy requirements can be met completely by solar and other renewable sources, says a recent study by two professors at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore (India). Their report published in the journal Current Science...
