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The fledgling residential plug and play solar market got a little more momentum this week thanks to GreenRay, Inc. The Westford, Mass. startup announced that its SunSine 200 AC module, a device that links solar arrays to a home’s electrical system has met the UL 1741 standard, earning the ETL mark from Intertek. So pleased [...]
Read more GreenRay earns certs for plug-and-play solar module
Commentary: Welcome to the first Industry Voices post. Industry Voices will be a collection of commentaries and editorials from cleantech and Green IT innovators, entrepreneurs and practitioners that take the pulse of the green technology space and spark discussion. Views expressed here are solely those of our contributors. Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: It’s [...]
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Scientific American has a neat article and slideshow that details the $5 million, 65,000-square-foot green roof atop the United States Postal Service’s Morgan Processing and Distribution Center in New York City. Installed in 2008, today it not only plays host to a thriving assortment of trees and flowers — and million dollar views — it [...]
Read more USPS green roof thrives in Manhattan
Infographic: One Block off the Grid (1BOG) has just posted a neat infographic that envisions what it would be like if solar panel installs followed the same trajectory as Facebook’s rate of adoption. Did you know that if that were the case, the U.S. could be completely powered by solar in just three and a [...]
Video: Last Friday, August 13, SPG Solar’s President and CEO, Thomas Rooney, was interviewed on CSPAN’s Washington Journal as part of a week-long series exploring energy issues. In it, he states that the cost of solar is dropping so fast that even in the face of a “12 to 1 subsidy disadvantage,” the cost of [...]
Read more SPG Solar’s CEO: Solar cheaper than fossil fuels by 2015
American Superconductor (AMSC) today announced that it had paid $8 million for a 25 percent stake in U.K.-based Blade Dynamics. Dow Chemical’s VC arm also made a minority equity investment in the wind turbine company, which is expanding into the Southern U.S. Blade Dynamics’ claim to fame is efficient rotor technology that reduces weight and [...]
Read more Windy in Louisiana: Blade Dynamics to open plant, American Superconductor and Dow take stake
With all the doom and gloom surrounding the smart grid of late, it’s hard not to get concerned about its future. But it’s important to realize that the smart grid is a lot bigger than the device that’s giving it a bad name. I’m talking about the smart meter. Cnet’s Martin LaMonica asks, “Is this [...]
Clarian is betting that most homeowners would warm to solar panels if it weren’t for the hefty price of installing them. Starfish, the firm’s micro-inverter tech is designed to help DIY types piece together the building blocks of a solar system at much lower costs, and for some, without the need to hire an electrician. [...]
Read more A trip to Costco for Clarian plug-n-play solar systems?
Is that a cheap electric vehicle I see on the horizon? Yet-Ming Chiang, A123 Systems founder and an MIT materials researcher, claims to have come up with a new battery design that will cut the cost of battery packs — currently upwards of $10,000 — by up to 85 percent. The tech will be at [...]
Read more A123 spinoff: New battery tech reduces cost by 85%
An Englewood, CO-based startup called Genie Lens Technologies has created a film called Fusion — a sticker, for all intents and purposes — that improves solar panel efficiency by up to 10 percent. The best part is that the sticker improves efficiency best under cloudy conditions, when diffuse light makes it tougher for solar panels [...]
Read more Genie Lens: Stick-on solar booster
Getting a little ahead of ourselves, are we? Actually, no. While the solar industry is only just now ramping up in earnest — despite there having been solar panels perched on roofs for decades — some in the PV industry are getting a little proactive about handling the waste that a massive U.S. roll-out of [...]
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