Originally published on the ECOreport Though many believe the lifetime of a solar panel is twenty-five years, a number of older models have exceeded this. When Kyocera tested a 30-year-old module last year, it discovered it was still operating at 90.4% of capacity. There are 37-year-old Arco Solar (now SolarWorld USA) … [continued]
Energy Post. The spectacular global growth of solar PV is one of the big energy stories of today. And it may well become the energy story of the 21st Century. Where did the solar revolution “suddenly”come from? And where will it take us? One of the pioneers of the sector, … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport Peter Varadi is one of the few people who could be said to personify the solar industry. He and his partner, Joseph Lindmayer, helped develop this technology for space, and founded the World’s first terrestrial solar company in 1973. Solarex was the worlds largest, and possibly … [continued]
