Solar panel refers either to a photovoltaic module, a solar hot water panel, or to a set of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure.

Only 0.005 of China s energy comes from solar panels.

Germany has subsidized solar panels, as some hope Obama might.

He has also installed solar panels to heat his home.

We even installed solar panels to provide electricity on a regular basis.

Despite the country s massive investment in solar and wind, it mostly sells solar panels to Western countries at subsidized prices.

Solar panels and wind turbines can provide off grid power in isolated rural areas.

This measure is also commonly used for solar panels, at least for typical applications.

The IEA has identified certain HS codes on the APEC list as currently valid for renewable energy equipment, e.g. solar collectors, PV panels and wind chargers, and has argued for the inclusion of other items, e.g. small hydro electric plants, photovoltaic generators and biomass related equipment.

China has taken the lead in exporting solar photovoltaic cells, while clean tech parks are arising even in the Arab world.

Biofuels reduce emissions by only ten Mt, and solar panels by a paltry three Mt.

When most people think of renewable energy sources, they imagine solar panels and wind turbines.

Germany led the world in putting up solar panels, funded by 47 billion in subsidies.

The electricity grid is quasi absent except for a few solar panels and battery generators.

Emphasizing that the World Solar Programme 1996 2005 is aimed at encompassing all forms of new and renewable energy, including solar, thermal, photovoltaic, biomass, wind, hydro, tidal, ocean and geothermal forms,

In 2002, one private equity fund estimated that annual installations of solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays might reach 1.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2010.

The power station has an installed capacity of 62 MWp, with more than 376,000 solar panels.

If California were to rely on solar power for its electricity consumption, the entire state would have to be covered with photovoltaic cells.

To some, green growth evokes a countryside covered with windmills and urban roofs lined with solar panels.

Germany led the world in putting up solar panels, funded by 75 billion in subsidies. The result?

It needs no subsidies, and it produces 50 times more energy than all of China s solar panels.

Power Spacecraft power is provided by the solar panels which contain 11.42 square meters of silicon cells.

Many Parties provided information on alternative energy resources and mentioned that these include photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, oil shale, and biomass energy.

Deploying more wind turbines and solar panels creates a need for more builders, technicians, tradespeople, and specialist employees.

The nonprofit company Grameen Shakti currently leads the world in the installation of solar panels for the rural poor.

This represents a smooth doubling, every two years, of the amount of solar energy we're creating, particularly as we're now applying nanotechnology, a form of information technology, to solar panels.

The project is often credited for leading to the boom in manufacturing of photovoltaic panels in China, which has dethroned Germany and the United States to become the world s largest producer.

In Alberta, Canada, the homes of the Drake Landing Solar Community (in operation since 2007), get 97 of their year round heat from a district heat system that is supplied by solar heat from solar thermal panels on garage roofs.

Although silicon s light absorbing properties are suitable for photovoltaic devices, the near 0.5 volts that it generates is too weak to split water in a solar fuel generator.

The Moura Photovoltaic Power Station (also known as Amareleja Photovoltaic Power Station) is a large photovoltaic power station in Amareleja, in the municipality of Moura, Portugal.

While China does produce about half of the world s solar panels, 98 are exported to reap generous subsidies from rich world markets.

And what we're seeing is that R D I Y has moved beyond just window farms and LEDs into solar panels and aquaponic systems.

We see scary pictures of dry riverbeds (the result of global warming), along with plenty of pretty solutions like wind turbines and solar panels.

For example, Germany s ongoing nuclear phase out has been complemented by accelerated renewables implementation, with up to 3,000 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity connected to Germany s power grid in a single month.

A solar home system connects a photovoltaic panel to florescent lightbulbs, radio, and even TV, via a battery and load controller. A World Bank study has shown that a 20 watt solar home system can cut monthly kerosene consumption in rural households by roughly 15 liters.

During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450 watt turbine up the mast.

There it uses a Lissajous orbit that avoids blockage of the Sun by the Earth, which would limit the amount of solar energy the satellite could produce through its solar panels, as well as disturb the spacecraft's thermal equilibrium.

There's the solar panels of the cell, some switches that turn your genes on and off, the girders of the cell, motors that move your muscles.

Indeed, German support for solar power is aimed at lowering the cost of solar panels, which is the main justification for paying a high feed in price (currently about 200 MWh, compared to current electricity prices of roughly 55 MWh).

Those subsidies are a hidden form of government spending on everything from home mortgages and health insurance to the purchase of hybrid cars and residential solar panels.

Well designed feed in tariff programs offer investors the transparency, longevity, and certainty that they seek and these incentives have backed approximately 75 of solar photovoltaic capacity and 45 of wind capacity built worldwide through 2008.

In 2005, Spain became the first country in the world to require the installation of photovoltaic electricity generation in new buildings, and the second (after Israel) to require the installation of solar water heating systems in 2006.

To understand what is happening, consider Evergreen Solar, the third largest maker of solar panels in the US, which announced in January that it would close its main American factory, lay off its 800 workers there within two months, and shift production to China.

It was precisely such a model that led to the emergence in China of the World Bank s famous Golden Sun standard for solar panels, which focused disproportionately on strengthening technical institutions.

In October 2006, the company announced plans to install thousands of solar panels to provide up to 1.6 megawatts of electricity, enough to satisfy approximately 30 of the campus' energy needs.