Tag: Solar
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SHADE is Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium
Team ASUNM, a collaborative effort between Arizona State University and University of New Mexico, has come together to address the inefficiencies of urban sprawl and to create a model for sustainable desert living that has been dubbed SHADE (Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium), which is an entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition that…
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New Record Efficiency For Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
A new efficiency record for dye-sensitized solar cells has been achieved by researchers at EPFL in Switzerland — the new record of 15% has now been achieved thanks to a new fabrication process created by the researchers. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a very promising type of solar cell — largely as a result of…
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House in the Mountains Features Green Roofs and 2013 AIA Housing Award
High in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the roof planes of this guesthouse are both meadow and super-insulated envelope, blending structure into scenery to be nearly imperceivable from a road above the site while preserving the view from the main house. New York architectural firm GLUCK+ has designed the “House in the Mountains” for which…
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NRG Solar Achieves Commercial Operation of Two Solar PV Projects in California
NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, today announced that two of the solar photovoltaic facilities the company acquired from Recurrent Energy earlier this year have reached commercial operation. The two California based solar PV facilities, totaling 40 megawatts (AC), deliver electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas & Electric…
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$54 Million For New York State Solar Projects
New York solar news from Jake Richardson at CleanTechnica.