Solar Energy

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Power solution: India opens world's largest solar park (PHOTOS) — RT

Power solution: India opens world's largest solar park (PHOTOS) — RT:
http://rt.com/news/india-solar-power-park-624/

The world’s largest solar power field has been switched on in India’s western state of Gujarat. Accounting for 214 megawatts of photovoltaic solar capacity, it becomes larger than China’s 200 MW Golmud Solar Park, which previously held the record.

The newly-developed solar power park will be a 500-megawatt system using state-of-the-art thin film photovoltaic technology and should be fully completed by the end of 2014.

It now has an operational capacity of 214 MW and has already become the largest such single location in the world, spread over 3,000 acres of mainly wasteland. Gujarat environment chief S.K. Nanda says the state is ideal for the solar project because of its sparsely-populated desert in the north.

The project has become part of 600 megawatt solar energy addition to India’s power grid, including sections that were already operational.

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Denver International installs ground-mounted solar power system

Denver International installs ground-mounted solar power system:

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Breakthrough: World’s most efficient solar panel | SmartPlanet

Breakthrough: World’s most efficient solar panel | SmartPlanet:

North Carolina’s Semprius Inc. and its German backer Siemens said they have developed the world’s most efficient solar panel.

The prototype converts 33.9 percent of the sunlight that hits it into electricity, according to separate press releases from the two companies. That’s more than double the most efficient conventional photovoltaic (PV) module on the market, where performance tops out at 16 percent, Forbes magazine found late last year.

It beats the previous laboratory best of 32 percent, Semprius said, citing testing and certification from Spain’s Instituto de Energia Solar at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Semprius late last year announced a breakthrough in the 41 percent efficient solar cells it builds into its modules. Cells typically are more efficient than the overall module.

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