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Looking after your solar batteries. Winter is a tough time for solar power: less sunshine, lower solar irradiance and shorter days mean significantly less power generation, and if you have an off-grid system, you have another issue as well - cold batteries.
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New update to the Solar Electricity Handbook
14 Apr 2010
A minor revision has been made to the Solar Electricity Handbook based on feedback from readers and containing the very latest information on subsidies, feed-in tariffs and grants. The book is now published by Greenstream Publishing and is available from Amazon and all good bookshops. ISBN number 978-1-907670-00-8
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Canary Islands now added to solar calculators
14 Apr 2010
The Canary Islands have now been added to the solar calculators on this site.
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Solar calculators now support Central Africa
8 Mar 2010
The solar irradiance tables and solar angle calculators have been updated to include Central Africa: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, The Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Zambia have now been added to the calculators.
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Solar powered steam power station
18 Feb 2010
Instead of conventional solar plants that use solar panels to convert light into electricity, eSolar's thermal solar plants use softare-controlled heliostats to reflect sunlight onto a central tower to heat water for steam. The steam is then used to rotate a turbine to generate electricity.
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How do we get solar panels down to under $1 per watt?
16 Feb 2010
A great article about the future for solar PV and the battle to get the installed price down to under $1 per watt.
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Italy now added to the online solar calculators
22 Jan 2010
Italy has now been added to the online solar calculators!
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Is the solar car going to be a revolution in 2010. Three electric car manufacturers have recently announced solar powered electric cars for production. All three manufacturers expect to have solar electric cars on sale to the general public in the next few months.
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If you are interested in how to make your own power or micro generation. There are lots of ways you can make your own power, deciding which one is the right one for you will depend on what you want to achieve, the characteristics of your location and the amount of money you want to spend.
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Solar gadgets: from solar powered straw hats and bird houses to solar powered underwear, as soon as solar power became affordable the era of the useless solar gadget was inevitable.
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Are we on the brink of a Solar Revolution? With the lowering cost of photovoltaic panels, Michael Boxwell argues that we could be on the verge of changing the way electricity is thought of forever.
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Why I wrote the Solar Electricity Handbook. When I first started investigating and using solar power, I looked for a book to help get me started - a solar book that would teach me the fundaments of the technology: to explain how solar worked and help me avoid the mistakes that others had made. To my surprise, no such solar book existed.
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I am often asked which is better - wind turbines, or solar modules. The answer, of course, is that it isn't as simple as stating which technology is better - both have their benefits and drawbacks and which technology is best depends very much on the application and the location of the system.
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