ClearVue looks like regular glass, but better, as it turns any window into a solar panel. It’s better for the consumer and better for the environment. The whole building can become a solar array and thus energy self-sufficient. Imagine being able to save 40% of your buildings power bills. Clearvue … [continued]
See-through solar windows turn ordinary energy-sucking, carbon-spewing buildings into climate action heroes.
McDonald’s just introduced a flagship restaurant located west of Disney on Buena Vista Drive, Orlando, Florida. The opening of this restaurant demonstrates the company’s steadfast commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency as it will become a Zero Energy Building, its first Zero Emissions restaurant in the US.
Accumulating more solar news in a week this time, instead of 3 months, I’ll supplement the headlines and links with short summaries again, since I know some of you prefer that. Click, read, enjoy. Solar Projects How Austin Energy Aims to Reach Solar-Plus-Storage Integration at 14 Cents per Kilowatt-Hour Back in December, Texas … [continued]
After crashing nearly 50% between 2009 and 2014, the price of solar glass is set to rebound beginning in 2015, as a result of anti-dumping duties levied by the European Union on Chinese suppliers. According to IHS, the average price for glass used in solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing fell from … [continued]
Xinyi Solar — a solar photovoltaic glass manufacturer based in China — has finished connecting a 150 MW ground-mounted solar project in Anhui, China, to the electrical grid there, according to recent reports. The project entered the construction phase back in late April and was finished towards the end of … [continued]
Another anti-subsidy investigation in the solar energy sector has been officially opened by the European Commission (EC). The investigation will look into imports of solar glass from China to the EU. The complaint was filed by EU ProSun Glass, which claims solar glass from China is being subsidized in China … [continued]
Huge skyscrapers covered in glass solar cells that able to generate more than enough electricity for their own operations could become common in the future. Oxford Photovoltaics, a solar power company that produces colorful photovoltaic glass specifically for this purpose, recently announced a big boost in investment funding, receiving over … [continued]
The unusual (philosophy M.A.) founder of Pythagoras Solar, Gonen Fink will be among the speakers at Intersolar 2010 in San Francisco this week. His start-up has designed a nearly transparent, yet fully solar glass using patent-pending optics, for use as an energy efficient skylight (and starting next year, a … [continued]
