Archive for September, 2008
Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit Passes
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
The Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC for short) has passed, and better, it’s been renewed until 2016, and they increased the caps on how much you can claim for the credit. This is great news, but especially for solar energy as dozens of very large products were waiting to see if that went [...]
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New Photos on Flickr
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Just an FYI to those that are interested, the new images on our web site are also available on our Flickr page. There are a couple there that are available in higher resolution than on our web page as well, and as we develop the prototype, we’ll be adding images as well.
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Sun Simba HCPV Press Release
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
We just issued the following Press Release (PDF file download). Please feel free to download and distribute this file freely.
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Web Site Updates
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
We just uploaded the changes to the product page to give a little more information on the Sun Simba HCPV. We’re going to eventually be adding spec sheets and technical specifications, but for now we’re just giving a thorough overview. We’ve included a couple of images people haven’t seen yet, and we’re getting a few [...]
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Sun Simba HCPV on Greentech Media
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
There’s a really great article on the Sun Simba HCPV up on Greentech Media. They cover the basics of what makes it such a great system, they explain the advantages of the thinness and the staggered rows, and have a great photo gallery at the end of the article. If you’re at all [...]
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Hiring Two Engineers
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Morgan Solar is looking for two engineers, an electrical engineer and an industrial engineer. Full details for both jobs are in the Careers section on the site. We’ll be posting some other positions soon and we’ll announce them in this blog.
Edit: This is the official blog, and the post seemed to say otherwise.
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Digg Main page
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Ok, we weren’t expecting to end up on the main page of Digg, and definitely not this early in our product development. We’re in the prototype phase right now, and we won’t have panels for sale for about a year (sooner possibly, but some of the time lines depend on certification processes over which we [...]
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HCPV Systems
Friday, September 5th, 2008
When talking about investors, people often talk about how you need to communicate what your “magic” is. What is it that you can do that makes your company special. And here at Morgan Solar, our magic is in our optics, the Light-guide Solar Optic (LSO). We can make optical concentration systems that just behave differently, [...]
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Morgan Solar in Greentech Media
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
We just got writen up in Greentech Media, check it out! All in all a great article. The article covers the initial ideas that led to the founding of Morgan Solar, what pushed the innovation and the early process. We’re going to be releasing more information on the Sun Simba HCPV (very soon) and [...]
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