Semprius, which landed $6.5 million in venture capital financing last month, has won $500,000 in federal stimulus money to help fund the development of its solar-energy technology, the Durham company said Wednesday.
CEO Joe Carr says Semprius will direct the money into its ongoing efforts to engineer a more efficient and inexpensive type of solar panel.
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Despite tough economic times, one segment of business that continues to grow is solar power for homes. The growth can be attributed to the fact that once solar panels are installed on your home, the cost of electricity goes down for the homeowner and the impact on the environment is positive. Solar power is renewable [...]

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched an initiative to boost the development of solar energy technology, in a bid to turn it into a major energy source in China by 2050.
A CAS official said that the academy had organized academicians and experts to make [...]

Two state agencies signed a collaboration agreement
Two of the largest solar power research institutes, the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), with the express purpose of forwarding international research and technological development of next-generation photovoltaic [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY — As he prepares to address a wind-power conference in Oklahoma, billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens said it shouldn’t seem strange that he is interested in wind and other alternative energy sources.
“It’s not totally unrelated to the oil business,” Pickens told The Associated Press. “It’s an energy business. It’s easy for [...]