Chiếc máy bay chạy hoàn toàn bằng năng lượng mặt trời Solar Impulse vừa hoàn tất chuyến bay quốc tế đầu tiên của mình từ Thụy Sĩ sang Bỉ trong khoảng 13 giờ. Chiếc máy bay có sải cánh dài 61 mét với hơn 12.000 tấm pin mặt trời, đã thực hiện chuyến bay hôm 13.5 không cần nhiên liệu và không gây ra bất kỳ sự ô nhiễm nào.

Shropshire farmer Paul Parton could make more than £500,000 over the next 25 years by generating his own energy through solar PV panels installed on the roofs of his poultry units.Paul, who runs Parton’s Poulets in Market Drayton, is among the growing ranks of farmers nationwide finding new non-agricultural means of generating income in an increasingly competitive industry.

The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is all set to establish first on-grid solar electricity generation system in the country during the current year to overcome energy crisis.“This solar system and smart grid is becoming a reality in less than a year,” said PEC Chairperson Senator Rukhsana Zuberi, addressing a press conference Saturday.

ANU has a partnership with a Chinese manufacturer to commercialise new solar cell technology. The scarcity of high grade silicon is one of the things which pushes up the price of roof top solar panels. The majority of existing solar energy cells on the market rely on high grade silicon components.

This marks Google's first clean energy project investment in Europe, the company said in a blog post, though it still requires formal approval from Germany regulators. Google is teaming up with German private equity company Capital Stage for the project, a firm that "brings strong experience in the German photovoltaic and renewable energy market," Google said.

Máy bay năng lượng mặt trời (Solar impulse) nổi tiếng của Thụy Sĩ và duy nhất trên thế giới đã sẵn sàng cho chuyến bay quốc tế đầu tiên tới thủ đô Brussels của Bỉ. Dự kiến chuyến bay này sẽ diễn ra vào ngày 2/5, nếu điều kiện thời tiết tốt.

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard today announced the approval of a $104.7 million project to integrate solar energy into one of Queensland’s largest fossil fuel power stations. The 750 megawatt (MW) coal-fired Kogan Creek Power Station in South West Queensland will be integrated with a new 44 MW solar thermal system, making it the largest project of its kind in the world.

In recent times, Gia Lai Power Company has taken many measures in propagating the economic and effective use of electricity, thus saving not only an energy source for the country but also expenses for agencies, businesses and households. Thereby Gia Lai Power Company has made a good use of the electric energy source allocated for production and social-economic development in the province, contributing significantly to the electric energy saving movement.

100% of the barracks and households in Truong Sa District (The Spratly - Khanh Hoa Province) can now use electric energy for their work and life, with the continuous supply for 24 hours a day. The whole district is now under television and telephone coverages. It is special that all the electric energy used in this island district is produced from wind power and solar energy. So far, Truong Sa has been the first district in the country to use clean energy sources.

Under a memorandum of understanding signed by Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr in Berlin last week the ASI and Germany’s Deutches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) will collaborate to accelerate technologies aimed at enabling solar energy to become a sustainable energy source globally.

By combining copper, zinc, tin, and sulphur or selenium, all abundant and low cost elements, the University of Luxembourg has produced a solar cell with 6.1 % efficiency. The Laboratory for Photovoltaics of the University of Luxembourg has developed an improved preparation process for kesterite solar cells, which resulted in a new European record efficiency of 6.1 percent.

Dubbed the ‘Solar Soldier’ project the two-year research and development mission aims to produce a power pack where the energy is gathered from a combination of solar cells and thermoelectric devices. The team of approximately 15 scientists and researchers from Glasgow, Loughborough, Strathclyde, Leeds, Reading and Brunel University will also work on investigating ways of managing, storing and using heat produced by the system.

Under the plan, the Economics Ministry would use its fast-track powers to expedite the approval process for building transmission routes, among other planned measures. To date, one of the main obstacles of upgrading Germany’s network to carry energy generated by solar and wind has been the country’s patchwork approval process.

The Japanese government is poised to increase the incentives available to a wide range of clean energy technologies through a revamp of the country's feed-in tariff scheme, which should come into effect from next year. According to Reuters' reports, a government advisory panel today approved a set of proposals that will significantly extend the current solar incentives regime to cover other forms of energy, including wind, small-size hydro, biomass and geothermal energy.

Hoạt động nghiên cứu và phát triển dự án Solar Soldier trong 2 năm, nhằm sản xuất thiết bị thu nhận năng lượng bằng cách kết hợp giữa pin mặt trời và các thiết bị nhiệt điện. Nhóm thực hiện, gồm 15 nhà khoa học và nhà nghiên cứu từ Glassgow, Loughborough, Strathclyde, Leeds, Reading và Đại học Brunel, sẽ cùng nhau nghiên cứu các cách thức quản lí, lưu trữ và sử dụng nhiệt do hệ thống này sản sinh ra.

The annual survey of cell manufacturers published in the March 2011 issue of PHOTON International shows that the PV industry increased global cell production to 27.2 gigawatts (GW) in 2010, which is as much as the output of the previous 4 years combined. This incredibly large volume means an increase of 118-percent over the 12.5 GW produced in 2009 - the highest annual growth rate since PHOTON International started tracking cell production in 1999.

Richard MacLellan, Halifax Regional Municipality’s SEMO Manager (Sustainable Environment Management Office) remarked that adopting solar heating technology was a good cost- effective proposition. As the demand for hot water was very high in the building, the opportunity for savings by decreasing the operating costs in the facility was also huge. He mentioned that they would continue their exploration to discover the most promising and innovative renewable technology that could be used in the projects.

Trung tâm giải trí và thể thao này rộng hơn 16 nghìn m2, do DSRA Envision Architecture thiết kế. 200 tấm thủy nhiệt trên mái cùng 36 đơn vị SolarDuct của trung tâm này sẽ làm gia nhiệt hệ thống thông gió cho các nhà chức năng. Theo Heather Mac Aulay, thành viên ban điều hành CanSIA khu vực Đại Tây Dương, chính quyền khu tự trị Halifax đã làm một điều đáng biểu dương khi cho vận hành một khu liên hợp như thế này.

Under the RCUK programme, Nanoscience through Engineering to Application, the EPSRC and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) are investing in four industry-led collaborative research and development projects that will address challenges in building the supply chain and scaling up technologies.

Với những ưu điểm về công nghệ và chiến lược triển khai xây dựng nhà máy điện mặt trời quy mô lớn theo phương thức chìa khóa trao tay, NovaSolar mang lại giải pháp toàn diện, độ tin cậy cao nhằm giải quyết vấn đề thiếu điện tại các khu vực, quốc gia trên thế giới đặc biệt ở những nơi có bức xạ mặt trời cao và chưa có lưới điện quốc gia.