Capital One has gone in on solar with SolarCity recently, helping to boost third-party financing. One of the largest US banks has put down $100 million in an investment fund with SolarCity to finance thousands of home solar systems. This will allow thousands of residential users the opportunity to have free solar panels … [continued]
Third quarter global solar installations in 2013 reached 9 GW, according to a recent report. NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly said demand increased 6% compared to the second quarter, while advancing 20% above a year earlier.
US-based Power One and Japanese electronics company Panasonic recently announced they are collaborating on creating energy storage structures, while also collaborating on potential solar photovoltaic inverter markets.
Solar thermal panels save more and save more where it counts. The sun’s energy is diffuse. It is always first collected and then concentrated. Solar thermal panel systems concentrate the energy in thermal storage systems. PV panel systems do this electricaly but not always with storage.
