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Dell has just finished installing solar panels in the car park of its HQ in Round Rock, Texas. Known as a solar grove, they have worked with Envision Solar to produce this renewable [...]

DSCC (dye-sensitized solar cells) which are created by G24 Innovations has been commercialised for the first time in the shape of a solar panel in a ruck sack.
Less than 1mm thick these solar panels are eco-friendly as they don’t contain solicon or cadmium.  They are ideal for outdoor types and could be incorporated into tents [...]

LG have launched their new Pop in the UK. The Pop is an ecofriendly touch screen mobile. It has a solar panel embedded in the cover of the battery which uses the sun’s energy to charge the phone’s battery.
The really cool thing is that just 10 minutes of sunshine will give you 2 minutes of [...]

LG has developed a solar panel compatible for e-book readers. These devices already have a long lasting battery solution, but when they do run out of juice, it can be incredibly frustrating as it will always happen at the worst possible moment!
The solar panel will allow the unit to be charged on the go as [...]

Solar power is generated by converting sunlight into electric current by using any of the following two ways. One with the use of Photovoltaics(PV). The other is by Concentrating Solar Power(CSP) where the sun’s energy is focussed to boil water which is further used for power production.
Though there is Solar Energy Generating Systems(SEGS) which [...]

If you happen to live in Cazenovia, then pop along to Nottingham High School to hear what Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google has to say.
A transcript of an interview with him can be found here, but for the purposes of this post – what has he got to say [...]

Suntech, the New York SE listed company has this week announced the completion of the 10MW PV based solar power network in China.
It is the first stage of a 50MW plant due for completion by the end of next year (2011). Powered by 37,000+ suntech solar panels it is estimated that this project will save [...]

Another company is looking forward to the day when it can launch its technology (literally – 4 launches actually), to beam energy transferred from the sun down to earth in order to capture its power.

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The firm – Solaren Space has been around for a few years and is developing its project to use satellites covered [...]

Gujarat in India had a small plan – to build a 500MW solar power plant by 2014.  This decent sized project now has new ambitions with a 3,000MW plant planned.

With the help of the Clinton Foundation, they will be undertaking this $10billion project to create the world’s largest solar power plant. The project has [...]

You’ve probably heard in the news recently about an ambitious solar project in California’s Mojave Desert being canned. This desert is a vast area of barren land with nothing much living, growing or even moving there – just a lot of sun beating down on a parched earth – so why not pop a solar [...]