Monthly Archives: November 2014

Solar Electricity: Looking Ahead to 2050

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By 2050, solar power is expected to become the world’s largest source of electricity with solar contributing 16 percent of the electricity demand on the planet. While final numbers for 2014 are yet to be calculated, in 2013, worldwide deployment..

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Bringing Solar to Haitian Schools

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In January 2010, a 7.0 Magnitude Quake struck near Port au Prince, Haiti. Over 3,500,000 people were affected by the quake; 220,000 people are estimated to have died and 300,000+ people were injured. One and half million people became homeless..

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Chamber Selects Green Power Labs as Innovation Finalist

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Chamber President Valerie Payn honored Halifax’s “risk takers and trail blazers” at the Chamber’s Fall Dinner last week.   Green Power Labs was pleased to have been selected as a finalist in the Innovation Category recognizing the company’s leading predictive analytics controls..

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2014 Marks the 60th Anniversary of the Modern Solar Cell

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Based on previous work completed by Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell and British scientists, Professor William Grylls Adams and his student Richard Evans Day, Charles Fritts of New York constructed the world’s first photoelectric module. He spread a wide, thin..

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