Recent Posts Tagged With 'solar energy'

• Sener and Masdar form solar JV to develop CSP plants

  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 19:21 in solar energy, sener, solar thermal power, concentrating solar power, masdar, thermosolar plants, central tower receiver, csp plants, torresol energy

  The Spanish engineering group Sener  and Masdar, the company behind an eponymous $15 billion eco-metropolis set to be built in Abu Dhabi, have joined forces by creating a solar joint venture called Torresol Energy (Torresol: Sun Tower, in English)....

• 8.5 MW Solar installation for SEAT´s car factory

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 19:58 in solar energy, solar power, seat, photovoltaics, transportation & infrastructure, photovoltaic installations, pv panels, solar panel installations, solar roofs

  SEAT’s factory in Martorell has been chosen by the Spanish Automaker (part of the Volkswagen Group) as the location for one of its most ambitious environmental conservation projects, where the installation of solar panels will make it possible to g...

• Spanish solar company Isofoton looking for US headquarters

  Posted on Saturday December 8th, 2007 at 00:23 in solar energy, solar power, first solar, university of toledo, alternative energy investors, isofoton, ut incubators

  During a recent visit to the Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator at the University of Toledo, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said he´d met with Spanish-based solar panel company Isofoton the day before, and they’re looking for a North-Americ...

• Clickcells: a new concept of solar module

  Posted on Saturday November 17th, 2007 at 23:49 in Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar power, new solar technologies, clickcells, nousol

  Nousol, a young start-up from Catalonia (Spain) has developed ClickCells, a versatile small solar module with a promising range of applications. The cells may be assembled through a  patented system that brings to mind a game of building blocks, suc...

• Of rice husks and solar panels

  Posted on Friday November 16th, 2007 at 00:52 in Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar power, new solar technologies, rice husks, vallombrosa

  Spanish conglomerate Vallombrosa Trust is to build a new factory of solar panels in Flix (Tarragona) with a new technology that replaces silicon with rice husks, reducing the cost of production by up to 60%. The new facilities are to offer 80,000 squ...

• Growth in the Spanish solar market exceeds expectations

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 21:53 in Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar power, photovoltaics, sunpower, solfocus, spanish solar market, solel, city solar, conergy, feed-in tariffs

  Feed-in tariffs in Spain, initiated in 2004 to reach the European Union’s goal of increasing renewable energy use to 20 percent by 2020, guarantee energy produced by from renewable resources will be bought by local utilities at three times the...

• My two cents on Solar Power Expo 07´ (2nd penny)

  Posted on Monday October 8th, 2007 at 23:48 in solar energy, solar power, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, csp, solar power expo, solar power long beach, solar power conference and expo

  It has taken me longer than I expected to get back to the comments on the Solar Power Conference and Expo - my apologies. It is a bit late now, but, anyhow, I thought I might as well wrap it up. One of the booths where we stopped during our visit to...

• My two cents on Solar Power Expo 07´ (1st penny)

  Posted on Monday October 1st, 2007 at 23:37 in solar energy, solar power, photovoltaics, california solar initiative, concentrated solar power, csp, solar power conference, solar power expo, solar power long beach

  As promised, I will dwell a little on the things I saw at Solar Power Conference and Expo. First of all, it was incredibly crowded. In fact, so crowded that the hotel where I was supposed to be staying at told me they were sold out and did not have...

• A new flurry of deals in the busy Spanish solar power market

  Posted on Saturday September 22nd, 2007 at 13:35 in Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar power, photovoltaics, solar cells, solar industry, solar modules, solar plants, solar projects, spanish solar market

  These have been busy weeks for deals in the Spanish solar energy market. We saw how WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp., developer of high-power solar systems, announced an agreement with Prime Solar Senergy, S.L. of Spain.  The latter will...