Next Wave of Renewable Energy: Grid Interactive
11/30/11, Harvey Wilkinson, OutBack Power
A grid-interactive PV system implies that a PV system is tied to the grid but can stand alone if the grid goes down. Essentially, it offers the best of both off-grid and grid-tied systems.

North American Photovoltaic Market Set to Double Year over Year in Q4’11
11/30/11, Contributed by, SolarBuzz News
Caught between strong utility-scale project demand, declining solar incentives in distributed generation applications, module over-supply, and significant policy uncertainty, the North American photovoltaic (PV) market is at a crossroads, according to the conclusions of the recently-released NPD Solarbuzz North America PV Markets Quarterly report.

Inverter Strategies: An Overlooked Factor in the Solar Cost Equation
11/30/11, Wendy Arienzo, ArrayPower
This new type of architecture has inherent cost and reliability advantages over microinverters: it uses fewer critical components than microinverters, its easy installation and connection to the grid allows for reduced installation and maintenance costs and its connection to the module at a cellular level means the performance and cost of the solar module can be optimized.

Tools for Clean Energy Project Financing
11/30/11, Adam Marsh, Clean Power Finance
Making affordable financing options available to as many people as possible is the key to stimulating widespread adoption of residential solar. That’s why Clean Power Finance offers affordable financing options for qualified installers and homeowners as well as our CPF Tools residential solar sales platform to simplify, streamline and speed up the permitting process.

Wind Power - Global Market Size, Turbine Market Share, Installation Prices, Regulations & Investment
11/30/11, Vyakaranam Pavan Kumar, Senior Analyst, Global Data
Consolidation is on the cards as the US market is undergoing correction and the Chinese wind market is expected to stabilize during the forecast period. Companies have modest expectations of growth for 2011 as major markets have slowed down but are expected to pick up in the second half of year.

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Nissan Leaf goes wireless - charged by electromagnetic induction from floor pad

THE sight of electric cars umbilically attached to their charging stations hasn't yet become commonplace. But already the technology is about to be superseded. Nissan in Japan has given a glimpse of the very near future in the form of a wireless charging station for its Leaf electric car. Present electric vehicle charging technology requires the connection of a cable to the vehicle to recharge its battery via mains electricity. Now Nissan has developed a wireless charging pad that recharges the battery simply by parking the vehicle on top of a ground transmission unit. Much like the charging system on electric toothbrushes, the Nissan wireless charger works by electromagnetic induction. Electricity is drawn from the recharging coil in a housing mounted on a garage floor and into contacts inside the vehicle. Charging your EV is something you never have to think about. You simply drive into the garage at night, park squarely over the charging pad, and leave the car to charge itself. By morning the car is fully charged and you're on your way. The system is 90 per cent as efficient in power transmission as a cable system, meaning it will charge the car in about eight hours.

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PV EXPO 2012 - February 29th to March 2nd, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan

World's leading PV exhibition & Conference. PV EXPO 2012. The place to be to grab opportunities in the growing Japan and Asian-pacific PV market! Together with PV SYSTEM EXPO 2012, all products and technologies related to PV will gather from around the world for further business expansion in Japan and in Asia-pacific. Visit http://www.pvexpo.jp/en/ for more information.

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