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Khosla Ventures: Solar thermal technologies are the future of alternative utility scale energy

(14/07/2008)

Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, hailed solar thermal technologies as the future of alternative utility scale energy during a keynote talk at the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) 2008 technology conference. Khosla cited the availability of solar, its low startup costs, scalability, and high productivity as factors behind the industry’s imminent success, while simultaneously respecting the rapidly growing distributed generation market of PV, which he clarifies as being a different market. ... [more]

Kyocera: Kyocera reduces solar cell thickness by 20%

(27/06/2008)

Kyocera has announced a new achievement in its solar cell manufacturing process that offers higher efficiency in its consumption of multicrystalline silicon, the essential raw material used to make photovoltaic solar cells and modules. The new mass-production process allows Kyocera to manufacture solar cells with a thickness of 180 micrometers using the latest advances in silicon ingot slicing and wafer coating. The industry’s standard mass-production methods for multicrystalline silicon sola... [more]

Kyocera Solar: Solar electric generating system for ELAC Monterey Park campus

(30/04/2008)

Kyocera Solar, Inc. and East Los Angeles College (ELAC) have celebrated the inauguration of a 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar electric generating system at ELAC’s Monterey Park campus. As part of the Renewable Energy Plan of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), the project represents a major achievement toward the goal of making all nine LACCD colleges more energy independent. The complete solar electric generating system, designed and built by Chevron Energy Solutions, consists of... [more]

Kreido Biofuels: Business update from Kreido Biofuels

(24/03/2008)

Kreido Biofuels, Inc. has provided a business update. Chief Executive Officer Ben Binninger reported, “We have accomplished a great deal since our financing in 2007, and we are continuing to address the significant market and financing challenges affecting our industry and our company. We remain confident that our advanced technology will enable us to achieve both better raw material utilization and lower operating costs than conventional biodiesel plants. We believe these factors, coupled with ... [more]