New investors including Alstom (US$ 55 million) and the California State Teachers Retirement Systems joined existing investors like VantagePoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
This at a time of heightened activity within the South African solar water heating industry with the announcement earlier this year of increased rebates from Eskom for installation of approved solar water heating systems (see S&WE 2/2010, p. 8).
Formula-G races has been organising since 1995 by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) in Turkey. The main aim is future's clean energy "solar" is used to power for racing cars.
On 21st July, the medium temperature solar collector tubes, developed by LN Solar Co., Ltd and Tsinghua university, has been passed the identification held by identification committee, which composed of three Chinese Academy of Engineerings and .foremost experts in the field of solar energy industry.
Honolulu - Sopogy, Inc., a leading micro concentrated solar power (MicroCSPTM) technology developer, today announced that it has been awarded funding from the Hawaii Renewable Energy Development Venture (HREDV) to integrate an innovative double-effect solar thermal air conditioning system at the Maui Ocean Center.
Thanks to this certificate, the electricity which is produced by the PVT collectors can be sold under the feed-in tariff in the UK. Also the Turkish manufacturer entered into a distribution agreement with the British company Newform Energy.
Gary Jorgensen, a Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, is retiring from his three decade tenure at the prestigious research institute to join SkyFuel as Principal Materials Scientist.
Here you can find a small selection of comprehensive market overvies from the solar thermal sector:
Market Overview: Vacuum Tube Collectors
Market Overview: Flat Plate Collectors
Market Overview: Solar Stations
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