Solar Power World

MIT Officially Opens Its Solar Energy Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Susan Hockfield and Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni celebrated the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center (SFC). Originally announced in July 2008, the Solar Frontiers Center, headquartered on the MIT campus, promotes research in advanced solar technologies through projects ranging from new materials to hydrogen production from solar energy. The center is the result of an alliance signed in February... Read More

General Electirc’s R&D To Focus On Thin-Film PV Technology

With the race on in earnest to have the most efficient, low-cost solar module on the market, GE announced it is focusing its research and development efforts on thin film photovoltaic (PV) technology in conjunction with PrimeStar Solar  Inc., the startup firm in which GE is a majority investor. Working closely with PrimeStar technology experts, the company is bringing to bear the full scale of its four Global Research operations to address each of the challenges required to bring... Read More

Seven Emerging Solar Technologies To Be Tested

Chevron Corporation is starting Project Brightfield, a demonstration of next-generation solar energy technologies in Bakersfield, California. The project, created on the site of a former Chevron refinery, will evaluate seven emerging photovoltaic technologies to help determine the potential application of renewable power at other company-owned facilities. The former refinery site has been repurposed to test the performance of six emerging thin-film technologies and one emerging... Read More

Report Says 10% of US Energy NeedsCould Be Supplied By Solar

Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and three solar business executives joined Environment America to lay out a bold new vision for solar energy in the United States.  From laundromats and baseball stadiums, to homes and cars, generating energy from the sun is already enhancing energy security and reducing pollution in America.  A new Environment America report outlines a vision for using the sun to meet 10 percent of the United States’ energy needs by 2030. Building a Solar... Read More