International Battery’s Energy Storage Systems integrated with Solar Integration System (SIS) for Net-Zero Energy Home Project

                  The new Solar Integration System (SIS) introduced by a California-based company, ‘Sunverge Energy (Sunverge)’, allows solar energy to be stored at home, and released by the utility company during times of peak demand. Sunverge Energy optimizes the value of solar power by leveraging the practical advantages of distributed generation and storage. Although there are so many Energy Management System providers, but for selecting a superior Energy Management System, it is to keep in mind that the simple, intelligent and cost-effective energy management system captures solar energy and stores it for use when it’s needed most, thereby shifting electrical loads, flattening peak electricity demand and maximizing return on renewable energy investments. Sunverge’s SIS offers a number of distinct storage–related advantages. ‘International Battery’, ‘a U.S. company involved in manufacture, design and development of large-format Lithium ion rechargeable cells, batteries and energy storage systems (ESS)’, has been selected by Sunverge to provide its Lithium ion energy storage systems (ESS) as the energy storage component of Sunverge’s Solar Integration System (SIS). This fully integrated distributed energy system will provide a turnkey solar solution to support a Net-Zero Home Energy demonstration of Sunverge Energy, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub.

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to develop Grid-tied solar arrays on the roofs of large public buildings

                    In view to help serve the growing demand for renewable power, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is going to develop Grid-tied solar arrays on the roofs of large public buildings. Tucson Electric Power is planning to lease space atop schools and other public facilities for the development of 11 megawatts (MW) of new TEP-owned solar generating capacity over the next three years. The Tucson Electric Power is initiating this exercise under its new TEP Bright Roofs program. TEP Bright Roofs will feed solar energy directly into TEP's local distribution grid, generating enough clean power to serve more than 1,800 Tucson homes. The program is designed for buildings with at least 50,000 square feet of flat rooftop space, enough room for a photovoltaic (PV) system that generates about 250 kilowatts (kW).

Kevin Kennon designed an advanced sustainable commercial building ‘Tian Fang’for Eco-City, Tianjin, China

                   An advanced sustainable commercial building ‘Tian Fang’ has been designed by the International Architect Kevin Kennon, for Eco-City, Tianjin, China. This mixed-use commercial building designed for area of 90,000 square meter, is a joint development between China and Singapore. It is a 200 meter tall office tower and luxury shopping center utilizing advanced Biophilic design technologies and strategies to reconnect people with nature. The principal strategy behind its advanced Biophilic design is to utilize natural convection to heat and cool the building with filtered fresh air.

Wysips breaking technology - Wysips Transparent Film to turn Phone Screen into a Solar Panel

“Wysips is designed to become an integral part of the screen of devices. WYSIPS makes materials and objects energy self-sufficient as it constantly recharges electronic equipment, even indoors, and also increases the operating range and mobility. WYSIPS provides a transparent, flexible solar surface that’s unique on the market with endless applications”.

                   Wysips, a small French technology company has created a new technology that would allow any cell phone to use solar power. Wysips designed a thin, transparent, photovoltaic film which will be placed on a phone’s screen to continuously top off a gadget’s charge using only the sun. Based on a principal of optics, Wysips technology builds solar panels into a surface without changing its appearance. Using wysips technology, any image, or any visible surface can become a photovoltaic source. The concept behind this technology is developed from research on lenticular images, which show different pictures depending on the observer’s position. The technology is poised to put electrical power sources into places for objects like, mobile phone and computer screen, clothes, books, cars, houses, etc. The expertise of Wysips for technologies especially by combining lenses with the most innovative solar solutions, seamlessly integrates it into screens, glass, fabrics, sails, plastics, and makes them all into photovoltaic energy sources. As it uses free and inexhaustible energy supply, WYSIPS Technology can be built into many different products so as to provide them many benefits. WYSIPS makes materials and objects energy self-sufficient as it constantly recharges electronic equipment, even indoors, and also increases the operating range and mobility.

Seminar of Solar experts and University researchers at Abu Dhabi during 27-28 March on photovoltaics (PV)

Semiconductor Research Corporation and Masdar Institute Host Solar Technology Scientists in Abu Dhabi to Identify Research Directions for Energy Breakthroughs

                        Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology announced for gathering of solar experts and university researchers for a forum on photovoltaics (PV) during March 27-28 at Abu Dhabi. The event is designed to explore the route for development of cost-effective systems capable of achieving 25 percent energy conversion from solar resources in Abu Dhabi by the year 2020. The Forum on Solar-Electrical Energy Systems 2020 conference brings more than 40 of the leading commercial and university researchers from North America, Europe, Asia, Japan and the United Arab Emirates as presenters. Topics will range from New Materials and Nanostructures for PV to Industrial and Commercial-Scale PV Systems and System Integration Challenges. The forum is a collaboration of SRC and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. It will be an issue of the discussion to trace out the research directions needed for Abu Dhabi’s solar future and potential smart grid.

India en marked prevenient enriched with renewable energy resources due to its advantageous location in the tropical region

                     The National Conference on “Recent Trends in Renewable Energy Sources for Sustainable Development” (NCRES-2011) inaugurated by the Registrar J. Raja, was organized in India at the Anna University of Technology – Tiruchi) on 22 & 23 February 2011. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Shri. Sathy P.Viswanathan, president of KG Design services Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore delivered the keynote address. The conference was organized with intention to create a platform for academic and industrial researchers to carry out fruitful deliberations on advanced technologies for production and use of non-conventional energy. It was emphasized by the speakers by referring to resource constraints that the growing environmental concerns call for a stringent review of the present energy systems.

Initiatives of U.S. Department of Energy to Reduce Cost of Photovoltaic Energy Systems

                   Solar energy, which is abundantly available and assumed as viable solution for energy crises due to depletion of conventional energy resources; it is essentially needed to reduce Cost of Photovoltaic Energy Systems so as to make them cost-competitive with other forms of energy. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched SunShot Initiative with aim to reduce the total costs by about 75 percent, of photovoltaic solar energy systems, and SunShot calls for achieving this goal by the end of the decade. The SunShot Initiative will help to make Photovoltaic Energy Systems cost-competitive with other forms of energy without subsidies.