With so many different companies producing solar cells and solar arrays, it’s a pretty competitive field. Toshiba’s 22.6% conversion efficiency ranks near the top – in the lab. Toshiba has stated its results in the field, so to speak, are at 19.3% conversion efficiency, putting its Residential Solar Module 240W right at the top.
SunPower, one of the world leaders in solar power, launched a new “highly social and sharable” solar knowledge contest on Facebook this morning, the Solar Discovery Game. In combination with the game, the company will give away a solar power system worth up to $25,000 at the end of the summer.
Some more great cleantech stories from the week that we haven’t yet covered. This week, I decided to just organize them by topic (note, of course, that some topics overlap — in such cases, I put a little note about which other categories each article could be filed under after titles for those of you only interested in a particular topic). Check out these other interesting cleantech stories …
This nation’s largest planned zero net energy development will be ready for a fall debut on the campus of the University of California, Davis.
Mount Diablo Unified School District has awarded a 30-year contract to SunPower to execute America’s largest school district solar power system. SunPower is responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the solar power systems which will staggered across 51 schools in the district. The power system, with a capacity … [continued]
SunPower has sold out of its solar panels for the rest of this year, and into early 2011, despite a huge 65% ramp-up of production at its new Malaysian factory. In a conference call covering company finances, SunPower CEO Tom Werner revealed that sales exceed supply beginning in this fourth … [continued]
Solar industry powerhouse Sunpower Corp. is busy creating new green jobs in the renewable energy sector, the latest endeavor being a group of contracts for a minimum of 20 megawatts in new solar installations for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, General Services Administration and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. All together, … [continued]
Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona is set to get a 15 megawatt solar power installation that will create 550 new green jobs during construction, which will take about a year. It’s also going to take a huge bite out of the base’s carbon footprint, supplying almost half of … [continued]
PG&E came out swinging today against Prop 23 – an attempt by out-of-state oil companies to dupe California voters into voting to overturn the climate bill, AB32, that we voted for in 2006. PG&E has been joined by the first of California’s clean energy companies to respond in opposition to … [continued]
If you are a Californian who’s been wanting to put on solar, but your spouse has objections on aesthetic grounds, you now have an alternative. There are now more CSI-approved choices for building-integrated solar (BIPV) modules in the updated list this month at GosolarCalifornia. Expected performance of all the new … [continued]
