Renewable Energy Sources

New Solar Panel Warranty Verification Portal By PowerGuard®

admin — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:55:40 +0000

Insurance coverage for purchased panels can now be easily verified 24/7 online PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services has launched their Solar Panel Program Warranty Verification Portal, accessible from their Web site at www.powerguardins.com or directly at PowerguardSNVerify.com The Warranty Verification Portal was developed to help those purchasing panels from PowerGuard’s solar manufacturing clients verify the existence [...]

The U.S. Installed 723 Megawatts Of Photovoltaic Capacity in Q1 2013

admin — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:54:00 +0000

The U.S. installed 723 megawatts of solar PV capacity in Q1 2013, accounting for over 48 percent of all new electric capacity installed in the U.S. for the quarter, according to U.S. Solar Market Insight: 1st Quarter 2013, a report by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. The research firm and trade association [...]

Conergy Constructs 4.5 MW Photovoltaic Park For French Utility UEM

admin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:13:00 +0000

UEM, the grid operator and power utility company of the French city of Metz, has commissioned a 4.5MW solar park in La Fare-les-Oliviers, a village near Aix-en-Provence in the south of the country built by Conergy. Conergy said that construction of the park was completed in May and employs 18,000 of its ‘P Series’ modules [...]

Triple-junction Concentrator Solar Cell By Sharp Sets New PV Conversion Efficiency World-record At 44.4%

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:12:57 +0000

Sharp Corporation (Osaka, Japan) has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell, the company announced on June 14th, 2013. These solar photovoltaic (PV) cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the cells to generate electricity. Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy [...]