There’s a lot of talk about making power meters and the electric grid “smart” enough to handle additional energy from solar panels. National Semiconductor wants to make the solar panels themselves smarter. They’ve developed a chip that integrates into the junction boxes of solar panels, optimizing power production.
National Semi calls it SolarMagic. The technology was [...]

read more from this topic.....

For a short time, it looks like Maryland-based SunEdison will own and operate the world’s largest utility-scale photovoltaic power plant in the world. To be built in the Veneto province of northeastern Italy, the 72-megawatt plant will surpass the 60-mW Olmedilla power plant in Spain and create enough solar power in its first year to [...]

read more from this topic.....

Europe’s largest solar plant (an area as large as 120 football pitches) will go online in Italy later this year. Located in northeastern Italy, in the province of Rovigo, the plant will generate 72 megawatts and will take up 850,000 square metres.

read more from this topic.....

No they are not hiring teachers to help teach children about solar power. Instead, their way of educating these students is through a curriculum that they had created themselves. They are calling it “Learning About Solar Power” and it seems like a real good guide to help teachers teach children about solar power and everything [...]

read more from this topic.....

General Motors is one of the most trusted and most well-known car manufacturers not only in the United States but in the entire world. It has been doing its share to help our environment be clean and to go green, it has already gone through with the production of green vehicles. But that is not [...]

read more from this topic.....