November the 27th has seen the opening of the worlds largest solar powered office building.  The massive complex has been built in Dezhou, China and covers an area of 75 thousand square meters. Facilities incorporated into the structure include an exhibition center and hotel along with scientific research facilities.  Environmental aspects have been used throughout the construction of the building [...]

The Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Kobe , Japan, has turned to the benefits of solar energy. The home of Hanshin Tigers baseball team has installed 1,600 photovoltaic solar panels on the stadiums roof which combined would produced 193,000 kilo watt hours of green and free electricity each year. The energy is equivalent to more than 5 percent of the stadiums [...]

Solar Trees are starting to sprout around the world in a new era of forestation. The latest plantation of these Photovoltaic saplings have been spotted in Texas. Dell, or more exactly, The parking lot of Dell`s headquarters in Texas has seen the growth of a small forest of Solar Panels disguised as shading carports. Over 500 solar panels have been [...]

Our children are going to inherit this planet from us at some point in the future and it is our duty to try and keep it as clean as possible. From an early age our kids should realize the power and benefit of clean energy. A favourite of every kid and some adults is coloring books and for that we [...]

In 1979, the then president of The United States, Jimmy Carter had  32 solar panels installed on the roof of the Oval Office. This was part of the initiative called “Solar America” was an early attempt of the drive for cleaner energy which the current Obama administration is hoping to promote. Unfortunately President Carter tenure in office came to an [...]

In the continuing trend for sports facilities to turn to solar power to supplement their energy usage, motor sports does not want to be left way behind on the racetrack. NASCAR takes a position on the grid in the solar energy staked with Pocono Raceway setting up a solar farm to help power their stadium. With the installation of around [...]

Philadelphia is the latest city to go solar trash. BigBelly Solar is placing 500 new solar trash compactors in the city streets. The solar devices have already been installed in cities throughout the USA and so far Philadelphia is the largest installation so far. The city estimates that it will save US$875.000 by replacing 700 standard trash baskets with 500 [...]

The Spanish town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, just outside Barcelona, has installed a  solar photovoltaic  plant in the most deadest  of places. The towns cemetery has been installed with over 400 solar panels covering and area of  roughly 10,700 sq. ft. (1000 sq. m.). The town which is densely packed with tall apartment buildings and a population of around [...]

Taiwan has finished construction of it’s first solar powered sports stadium.Recently officially unveiled in time for The World Games 2009 which takes place in July. The sleeping dragon shaped structure, located in the city of Kaohsiung, has a seating capacity of 50,000 and its totally powered by Solar Energy. Adorned with over 8000 solar panels, covering an area of over [...]