Cologne – With its tried-and-tested heat transfer fluid Diphyl, specialty chemicals company LANXESS is contributing to the cost-effective and environmentally friendly conversion of sunlight into electrical energy. In the “Arenales” parabolic trough power plant near the city of Morón de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain, parabolic mirrors concentrate solar radiation onto an absorber pipe, in which approximatel ...

The Shenhua Group is to stop extracting groundwater for their flagship coal to liquid project in Inner Mongolia’s Ordos an area struggling with severe water shortages affecting farmers and herders. The state-owned Chinese coal company made their announcement during a meeting with Greenpeace East Asia, saying the plan was already underway. Regarding Shenhua’s dumping of toxic industrial wastewater in Ordos, ...

Global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will grow by a robust 22% in 2014, largely as a result of recent policy changes in the two largest markets, China and Japan, according to IHS Inc. Worldwide installations in 2014 will rise to 46 GW (gigawatts), 5 GW higher than had been predicted in October 2013, based on a quarterly review of PV installations in more than 100 countries conducted by the IHS PV De ...

A pilot implementation of the Energy Service Company (ESCO) through the project on installing solar water heater systems for customers is one of the jobs that Vietnam Electricity Group will do this year to realise the Power Saving Programme for the 2014-2015 period, according to the Vietnam Economic News.     EVN’s Deputy General Director Nguyen Tan Loc said the pilot implementation of the first phase ...

First Solar Inc. (FSLR:US), the largest U.S. solar-panel maker, is close to announcing agreements to supply its technology to remote mining projects in Australia to help resources companies save on fuel costs. The company expects to develop as much as 200 megawatts of capacity for the mining industry over the next three years, Jack Curtis, First Solar’s Sydney-based vice president of business development fo ...

Recently, in order to implement the "State Council on promoting the healthy development of photovoltaic industry," the Guangdong provincial government website issued “the Implementation Opinions on Promoting the healthy development of the PV industry” and established development goals, to fight the province's total installed capacity of photovoltaic power generation reached 100 million kilowatts in 2015 to ...

The Red Dot Design Award, the “Red Dot”, is an internationally recognized quality label for excellent design Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum receives the Red Dot Product Design Award for the PHOENIX L500i The results of the annual Red Dot Product Design Awards are in – and Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum has won this prestigious award for the design of the leak detector PHOENIX L500i. Searching for the best performances an ...

deal for generating energy from windows, facades and glass car roofs Heliatek GmbH, world-leading company in the production of organic solar film, has reached a new record in the efficiency of transparent solar cells. The latest development allows transparency levels up to 40% with an efficiency of over 7%. The company already holds the world record of 12% cell efficiency for opaque (non-transparent) organi ...

Who says art and wine are the only alternative investments? Solar power, too, is gaining recognition as an asset class   What’s common between an MF Husain painting and a solar panel? Nothing. However, solar power is slowly gaining recognition as an asset class, like art. It will take time for solar power to acquire the vibrancy of gold or real estate , but it looks like investors and wealth advisors a ...

As a result, SolarWorld will increase its production capacity to over one gigawatt throughout the entire value chain. This will make the company the largest manufacturer of solar power technology outside of Asia. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Frank Asbeck, the CEO of SolarWorld AG, says, “SolarWorld offers a counterpoint to solar manufacturing in China. We rely on highly automated production processes so that we can minimi ...