Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Since solar photovoltaic panels were first invented they have been used for many purposes and will no doubt continue to do so over the coming years. It is always good to hear of them being installed for a worthwhile cause over and above the usual benefits...
The Chinese company Suntech Power Holdings, that is one of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the world, has defaulted on a huge bond payment amounting to $541m (£358M) that it was due to make on 15th March 2013 following cash shortages due to making...
The Energy Bill was placed before Parliament on the 29th November 2012 by Edward Davey who is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The bill is likely to have some impact on the solar power industry but before we look at this let’s briefly...
On Wednesday 16th January 2013 the official launch of the BRE National Solar Centre (NSC) took place with The Building Research Establishment (BRE) doing the honours in the presence of Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change. The...
If you had informed Arthur Scargill that solar panels were to be fitted to a building connected with the coal mining industry twenty eight years ago, at the height of the national miner’s strike, the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers...
You have your windows cleaned on your home so that it is easier to look out of them and, of course, to “keep up with the neighbours” as you do not want them to think you have a dirty home. But, what about your solar panels – is it worth cleaning them?...
Following a number of announcements made in the last few weeks by gas and electricity suppliers that they are significantly raising their prices for millions of their customers wouldn’t you like to be able to easily obtain an assessment of how much you...
China’s solar panel producers have certainly been going through some difficult times in recent months. So much so that the China Daily, who claim the information has come from not only officials in the solar panel industry but also sources within the...
For a lengthy period of time scientists have been endeavouring to find ways of making efficiency improvements in solar cells with so much having taken place since the introduction of photovoltaics. Brisbane Materials are a recently established company...
Solar panels are a solar photovoltaic system that converts the sun’s energy into electricity. Solar panels are constructed of a layer of thin semi-conducting material that is placed between a polymer resin and a sheet of glass. The semi-conducting material...
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