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Solar to form part of US energy solution
Solar cell research and development in A new report from the National Research than $13 million (£8 million) has recently
the US could help the country move Council has stated that almost 70 per been awarded to 25 projects in Ohio
towards reducing the energy use of its cent of electricity consumption in the US which includes a number of photovoltaic
buildings and infrastructure. occurs in buildings, although energy use power installations.
could be cut by 30 per cent if appliances
Fully adopting energy efficiency such as furnaces, freezers and hot water Commenting on the report, The National
technologies in the US could lower heaters are replaced with more efficient Academy of Sciences said: “The energy
energy use, a new report has said. models. Public and private commercial savings from attaining full deployment of
However, a wide-scale approach can only properties may also adopt solar cost-effective, energy-efficient
be achieved by pressures such as public technology in order to lower their energy technologies in buildings alone could
policies and high energy prices, which in usage for both financial and corporate eliminate the need to add new electricity
turn could increase solar cell demand. reputation reasons. A grant worth more generation capacity through 2030.”
Solar cell technology progressed for
US Marines
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has
introduced a technology which allows the
US Marines in the Arabian Desert to
harness solar energy to power their field
equipment.
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Marine units which are widely dispersed
can obtain the power they need to
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operate.
Thomas Williams, a senior officer at ONR,
said: “It’s vitally important to have power
in the battlefield especially these days in
an irregular warfare environment. Marines in Iraq asked for an expeditionary Carderock Division, tested and developed
renewable power system. It is hoped that the Greens prototype. ONR is the
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There’s a high demand for computing fuel use, costs and associated threats to executive branch agency within the
devices, targeting systems and vehicle resupply convoys will be Department of Defense and provides
communications devices in the field.” minimised with use of the equipment. technical advice to the secretary of the
Greens research started in 2008 after The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Navy and the chief of naval operations.
Grant awarded for “unique” solar cell technology
The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) by TSEC, to commercialise its unique Rick Lewandowski, Prism’s president
and Prism Solar Technologies have solar bifacial ribbon cell technology. It and chief executive officer, said: “This
reached an agreement to provide the will purchase equipment and undertake agreement between Prism and TSEC
latter with funding to manage a project research and development through will support Prism’s development of a
which will commercialise solar cell industry bodies and universities. high efficiency, bifacial cell technology.”
technology for use with its Holographic
Planar Concentrator. The solar cell technology grows long, TSEC is a not-for-profit and industry-led
thin silicon ribbon crystals which can be organisation which aims to aid the
Over $3 million (£1.8 million) has been used to make photovoltaic systems development in solar energy by using
secured through a federal grant for use which ate rugged, efficient, portable and the resources of the New York state.
by Prism Solar Technologies, supported lightweight.
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