This is a new one. A German solar company that mostly focuses on floating solar power plant solutions has come up with something novel. It has introduced tiltable, portable solar panels. These SKipp solar panels from Sinn Power are ideal for something like camping or mobile work sites where you … [continued]
By Kurt Kuhlmann
28 clean energy startups were selected to receive $150,000 each for their concepts
AES has made a major investment in 5B Solar, an Australian company that makes Maverick, a portable solar farm that cost less than traditional ground mount solar and can produce twice as much electricity per area of measure.
The sunny crew over at Voltaic build some of the coolest portable solar + storage solutions out there. We were impressed with the functionality and build quality of their OffGrid Solar + Storage backpack when we reviewed in it 2017 so we were excited when they reached out to us about reviewing their Arc 20W Solar Laptop Charger Kit. We are always on the go and on our laptops, so the prospect of pulling in power from the sun with a kit designed to charge laptops up was exciting.
We regularly cover the benefits of residential rooftop solar, commercial rooftop solar, as well as full-blown utility-scale solar installations, but a British company is taking a different angle on solar. Renovagen has developed a stand-alone, remotely deployable photovoltaic (PV) solar panel solution that utilizes flexible solar panels. Looking like a roll of … [continued]
Ascent Solar, a thin-film developer of consumer, commercial, and military solar products out of Colorado, US, revealed its 2014 fourth quarter and full-year financial results Wednesday, and it was a good news/bad news day for the company. The company raked in total revenue for the fourth quarter of $2.4 million, … [continued]
In the Rockaways, Long Island, the Bell Harbour Yacht Club made it possible for a local relief effort to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the community that to solar power… they still didn’t have electricity from the grid due to Hurricane Sandy. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaMPr2tsYGg] This location became an important hub … [continued]
Life has changed somewhat dramatically for approximately 100,000 herder families across Mongolia after a new effort led by the Mongolian government helped supply portable off-grid solar home systems which are now generating electricity for lights, televisions, radios, mobile phone charging, and small appliances. The program, Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity … [continued]
A dustup over the U.S. Navy’s biofuel program hogged the media spotlight this spring, but under the radar, the Army has been pursuing an ambitious alternative energy program of its own. Aside from $7 billion in cutting-edge and utility-scale projects, the Army’s initiatives include a modest but critical experiment … [continued]
