DuPont To Enter Thin Film Amorphous Silicon
Dupont recognizes that the PV market is significant and growing. It can bring its manufacturing expertise to produce low cost products for the fastest growing segment of the solar PV market. Locating the manufacturing facility in Shenzhen takes on the Chinese manufacturers on their home turf.
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Solar 2008 Update

ASES Catch the Wave

Solar NV's mother chapter the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) just hosted it annual Solar 2008 conference in San Diego earlier this month. This year's aptly named theme was Catch the Clean Energy Wave. With the incredible growing interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency, people across the world came to Solar 2008 in search for where to get the right information on all matters Solar. Chris Brooks and Steve Rypka will recap material presented by the following. More

Van Jones
Founder and President, Green for All

Senator Gary Hart
Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado

Chris Paine
Wrote and Directed "Who Killed the Electric Car"

Edward Mazria AIA
Founder
Architecture 2030

Jigar Shah
Chief Strategy Officer
SunEdison

Randy Udall
Director
Community Office for Resource Efficiency

Julie Blunden
Vice President, Public Policy and Corporate Communications
SunPower Corporation

Chuck Kutscher
Principal Engineer and Manager of the Thermal Systems Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Chelsea Sexton
Executive Director
Plug In America

Solar NV Monthly Meeting

Date:        Wednesday, May 21

Time:        6:00 PM

Location:   NV Power, Wengert Room
                6226 West Sahara Ave
                      Las Vegas, NV

Open to the public.

Thank you Nevada Power for providing meeting space!

Solar Today
Choosing a Low-Carbon Car

While you wait for the zero-emissions car of the future, what's the best car to drive now? The answer may surprise you. By Seth Masia

Last September, a client flew me to Europe to look at some new products. We would visit four facilities in Germany, France and the Netherlands, in four days, crossing Liechtenstein twice. At the Düsseldorf airport he rented a sleek black Audi A4 station wagon with a five-cylinder turbodiesel engine, and we wheeled onto the autobahn. According to the dashboard GPS, over the next four-and-a-half days my lead-footed client covered about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) in 10 hours of driving, at speeds up to 200 kilometers an hour (124 miles per hour). I cowered in the shotgun seat. We flashed past huge elegant wind farms (Germany gets about 6.3 percent of its electric power from wind), but I kept one nervous eye on the speedometer.
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RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Organic Photovoltaics: the Good, the Bad, and the Inefficient
by Joe Kwiatkowski, Physicist, Imperial College London

What if making a solar cell was as easy as printing a newspaper? What if it was flexible, light and above all, cheap? The current photovoltaic (PV) market, dominated by expensive and fragile silicon, would be revolutionized. These are the lofty ambitions of a growing number of scientists in companies and universities worldwide who are developing organic photovoltaics: solar cells that are made from carbon-based molecules. Read more

Solarindustrymag.com

Evergreen Solar Begins 80 MW Expansion In Mass.

Evergreen Solar Inc., manufacturer of the proprietary String Ribbon wafer technology, has initiated an 80 MW expansion of its Devens, Mass., facility. The first phase is on schedule to open by the middle of this year, with the ramp-up to 80 MW planned for 2009. The total site capacity will be approximately 160 MW when the expansion is complete.

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