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Colorado updates clean energy vision
Feb 01, 2018 (UPI)
Gov. John Hickenlooper in July outlined a mandate to cut state-wide greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent from their 2005 levels and cut the emission...
White House seeking to slash renewable energy research: report
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
The Post said it had obtained draft documents that outlined the administration's starting point for negotiations for the 2018 budget, set to be unveiled in Febr...
Wynn resorts in Las Vegas makes solar power commitment
Jan 29, 2018 (UPI)
Wynn Las Vegas and Enel Green Power North America, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Enel, signed a power purchase agreement to buy energy from a planned 2...
New discovery could improve organic solar cell performance
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
Now, scientists who are members of the Center for Computational Study of Excited-State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM) a new energy materials-related sc...
Off Grid Energy to launch new Hybrid Power Unit at 2018 Executive Hire Show
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
The gridtogo Ingenium Series reduces generator running hours and allows for the use of smaller generators, which result in significant improvement in fuel effic...
A simple new approach to plastic solar cells
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
Now, researchers at Osaka University, in an international collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, have redesigned one of their previously ...
Pathway opens to minimize waste in solar energy capture
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
The team, led by Professor Timothy Schmidt at UNSW, has been looking at ways to capture the energy of visible light that is currently wasted due to the limitati...
Solar PV cost reductions will offset impact of new tariffs on panel prices
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
Participants at the Rocky Mountain Institute-hosted event, representing at least 15 gigawatts of solar capacity-equivalent to the capacity of 25 average-sized c...
Less than half of EU members meet 2020 renewable targets
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
Members of the European Union are aiming to have renewable energy make up 20 percent of total energy by 2020, and at least 27 percent by 2030. Each EU member st...
U.S. solar power backers look at cost-cutting steps
Jan 25, 2018 (UPI)
President Donald Trump signed off this week on measures imposing a 30 percent duty on imported solar products following review and recommendations from the U.S....
Perovskite solar cells: Mesoporous interface mitigates the impact of defects
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
Unfortunately, there are still some issues, for instance with their nominal operating life: Conversion efficiencies decrease sharply when the material is expose...
Trump missed target with solar tariffs, critics say
Jan 24, 2018 (UPI)
President Donald Trump signed off on measures imposing a 30 percent duty on imported solar products following review and recommendations from the U.S. Internati...
Progress on energy storage can expedite New York's shift to clean energy
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
According to a new white paper released by Environment New York, the rapid growth of less expensive wind and solar energy and the plummeting costs of energy sto...
A Russian scientist improved nanofluids for solar power plants
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
Solar power generation is an area of alternative energy that uses solar radiation to produce energy. Its advantage lies in the fact that sunlight is a renewable...
U.S. tariff on solar power components met with backlash
Jan 23, 2018 (UPI)
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Monday that President Donald Trump imposed "safeguard tariffs" on imported solar cells and modules because of c...
Trump approves steep tariffs on solar panels, washing machines
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
The move was quickly decried by the solar industry, which said the tariffs would create a "crisis" and cost thousands of US jobs and billions in investment with...
Ultrathin black phosphorus for solar-driven hydrogen economy
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Now researchers at Osaka University have developed a new catalytic system for efficiently splitting water and making hydrogen with energy from normal sunlight. ...
Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
"For years, people had treated the poor conductivity of organics as an unavoidable fact, and this shows that that's not always the case," said Stephen Forrest, ...
New gas-solid reaction for high-speed perovskite photodetector proposed
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Pervoskite materials have long been considered candidates in the semiconductor manufacturing due to their characteristics of high light absorption, carrier mobi...
Renewables and cooling tech critical to water use in India's power sector
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
The brief, Water Use in India's Power Generation - Impact of Renewables and Improved Cooling Technologies to 2030, finds that depending on the future energy pat...
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