Use these resources to learn more about regional-specific public policies:

United States
www.dsireusa.org – comprehensive source of information on U.S. state, local and federal incentives that promote renewable energy.

Germany
www.solarwirtschaft.de – German Solar Energy Association

Italy
www.grtn.it – Italian grid operator with solar related information

Spain
www.asif.org – Spanish Solar Energy Association

Europe
www.esttp.org – European Solar Thermal Technology Platform (ESTTP)
 

Technical Papers

The Drivers of Levelized Cost of Electricity for Utility Scale Photovoltaics
- Matthew P. Campbell, Peter Aschenbrenner, Julie Blunden, Ed Smeloff, Steve Wright

The Effect of Soiling on Photovoltaic Systems Located in Arid Climates
- Adrianne Kimber

Impact of Tilt Angle on System Economics for Area Constrained Rooftops
- M. Culligan and J. Botkin

Long-Term Performance of 60 MW of Installed Systems in the US, Europe and Asia
- Adrianne Kimber

Solder Joint Degradation in High Efficiency All Back Contact Solar Cells
- Y. Meydbray, K. Wilson, E. Brambila, A. Terao, S. Daroczi

  Measuring The Effect Of Cell Mismatch On Module Output
- Karen Wilson, Denis De Ceuster, Ronald A. Sinton, June 2006 (pdf 1.21 MB)

Building Integrated Facades In New York,Using High Effcient Back Contact SolarCells
- J. Juergens, P. Aschenbrenner, V. Desai and Anthony O. Pereira, May 2006 (pdf 148 KB)

Mass Production Of PV Modules With 18% Total-Area Efficiency And High Energy Delivery Per Peak Watt
- Doug Rose, Oliver Koehler, Neil Kaminar, Bill Mulligan, David King, May 2006 (pdf 224 KB)

Back Contact Solar Cells in BIPV Applications – A New Dimension of Aarchitectual PV Design
- J. Juergens, P. Aschenbrenner, V. Desai and C. Erban, June 2005 (pdf 237 KB)

SunPower Discovers the “Surface Polarization” Effect in High Efficiency Solar Cells
- Richard M. Swanson, August 2005 (pdf 40KB)

Development and manufacture of Reliable PV Modules with > 17% Efficiency
- Doug Rose and Shan Daroczi, June 2005 (pdf 373 KB)

A Vision for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
- Richard M. Swanson, June 2004 (pdf 126 KB)

Manufacture of solar cells with 21% efficiency
- William P. Mulligan, et al, June 2004 (pdf 589 KB)

Light Trapping in SunPower’s A-300 Cells
- Keith R. McIntosh, et al, June 2004 (pdf 69 KB)

Mechanically Stacked Cells for Flat-Plate-Micro-Concentrator
- Akira Terao, et al, June 2004 (pdf 584 KB)

The Choice of Silicon Wafer for the production of Low-Cost Rear-Contact Solar Cells
- Keith R. McIntosh, et al, May 2003 (pdf 85 KB)

Development of Chip-Size Silicon Solar Cells
- [Proceedings 28th IEEE PVSC, 2000] (pdf 135 KB)

A Mirror-Less Design for Micro-Concentrator Modules
- [Proceedings 28th IEEE PVSC, 2000] (pdf 70 KB)

One-Year Comparison of a Concentrator Module with Silicon Point-Contact Solar Cell to a Fixed Flat Plate Module in Northern California
- [Proceedings of the 16th EPSEC, 2000] (pdf 57 KB)

Backside-Contact Silicon Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency for the ’96 World Solar Challenge
- [Proceedings of the 15th EPSEC, 1997] (pdf 59 KB)

Canada

Publication – A Review of Design Processes for Low Energy Solar Homes
CETC Number: 2008-170 / 2008-11-24
…A Review of Design Processes for Low Energy Solar Homes Rémi Charron, CanmetENERGY Abstract In recent years, there have been a growing number of proj…