Solar Trading News

Mitsubishi just bought more than a third stake in the world’s largest solar power plant. this is the giant company’s first investment in solar power. What’s interesting is that they’re investing in a Portuguese based power plant. In contrast to the USA, many European countries such as Spain, Portugal and Germany require energy companies to [...]

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2 billion people have no electricity. That’s about one third of the world’s population. This company made an innovative portable solar generator to help developing countries transport medical equipment by camel back through the desert. And yes, I think that the CFS49IS of the generator name does stand for Camel Fridge System. clipped from solarpowerwegrant.blogspot.com [...]

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Multi-junction solar cells have cracked the 40% efficiency barrier. The structure of these cells means that they can absorb energy from a wider range of the solar spectrum. “WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner today announced that with DOE funding, a concentrator solar [...]

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High-tech meets Low-tech in the Thar Desert, India I took this photo in 1999, while trekking through the Western Desert of Rajasthan , a province of India near the Pakistani border. The young man in the foreground had a solar panel on his house roof. In a truly ironic twist, the solar panel’s purpose was [...]

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“In many diagrams I have found that the PV cell is wired to a load. What is a load? What is it made up of? What does it do?” A load is a demand for energy. For instance a load would be when you turn on the toaster. If your solar panel is connected to [...]

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