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21st Century Solar Camelback Houses

Graft Architects have unveiled a new house design that takes inspiration from the historic camelback shotgun typology. Traditionally camelback homes were built to allow the owners to add a partial second story to a residence which could serve multiple purposes. These next-gen camelback homes by Graft Architects have been designed for the “ Make It Right Program ”. The architects have designed...

Happy (Energy) Independence Day!

As a special Fourth of July treat, here’s a sampler of some intriguing Web-based graphics related to solar power. Think of it as candy for the eye, brain and spirit.

Tracking oil imports over 35 years

Led by Amory Lovins, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has been promoting smarter energy policies and practices for decades. The graphic above comes from RMI’s Flash-video that uses a scrolling t...

DOE Taps DuPont For $9M Solar Research Program

DuPont will team with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a $9 million solar research program funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

DuPont will provide $6 million and the DOE will contribute $3 million to the program, which the chemical company described as part of its effort to “provide more mainstream solar photovoltaic (PV) products for commercial and resident...

Utility Scale Solar Heating Up

Utility scale solar got a big boost this week as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new plan to designate 24 tracts of public land administered by the Bure...

Energizer debuts new solar charger

Mobile electronics usually come in small packages, but their number present in the world poses a consistent load on the grid which above all is not present when y...

Solar and Energy Independence

The Fourth of July: fireworks, steak tips, beer and American flags. I’m writing from Boston, where the historical connection is particularly strong, and the fire...

Big Solar vs. Big Labor

Union labor has been suffering over the last few decades, strained in the face of free trade agreements and outsourcing. Now a new green-collar economy is on the ...

Suntech Confirms $1.2 Billion, 500MW Deal In China

Tate posted last month about speculation that Suntech was working on a 500MW deal in China . Today, Suntech’s press office confirmed the deal for PV-tech.org . The ar...

Yingli Green Energy (YGE) To Supply PV Modules To SDIC Huajing

Yingli Green Energy just announced that it will supply its PV solar modules to SDIC Huajing. Yingli was selected by SDIC Huajing to supply the company with solar m...

California Setting The Solar Standard

One part of California’s $3.3 billion ratepayer-funded January 2007 undertaking to install 3,000 megawatts of new solar energy capacity over 10 years is the Cal...

Quantasol custom tunes solar cells for specific locations

UK-based Quantasol has achieved a world record for the most efficient gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells that until now were only used in space-based applications. ...

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