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Solar as roofing

May 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Solar as roofing

The vast majority of PV installed on rooftops is just that … installed on rooftops.  Developing in recent years have been Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) The objective being, the transition of solar PV, from being just a merely bolted on afterthought, into being an integral part of the building, dare we say part of every […]

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Solar Electricity as Cheap as Coal Electricity

May 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Solar Electricity as Cheap as Coal Electricity

Photon Consulting has issued a report claiming that, by 2020, by 2010, the cost of solar will be below the price of grid electricity for at least 50 percent of OECD residential demand, equivalent to around 1,500 GW of solar power. This is much larger than the 15 GW of cell/module production PHOTON Consulting anticipates […]

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