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NRL Tests Autonomous 'Soaring with Solar' Concept
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The Solar Photovoltaic and Autonomous Soaring Base Program and the U.S. Marine Corps' Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) want to improve the ability of unmanned ...
EU SmartFlex project finishes reference solar facade
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The exceptional size and weight of the modules proved particularly challenging during the manufacturing process. The project has demonstrated how custom-designe...
InnoEnergy-backed Solaris Offgrid raises 1M Euro to tackle global electricity poverty
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The funding comes as a direct result of Solaris Offgrid's success at The Business Booster, hosted by InnoEnergy, the innovation engine for sustainable energy ac...
Beaumont Solar Announces the Beaumont Big C Services Unit to Solar Industry
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The traditional route of hiring an EPC firm to build a large Commercial and Industrial (C and I) or utility scale solar project has built-in risk associated wit...
A record year for Swedish leading solar energy technology provider Midsummer
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
2016 was an eventful and successful year for Midsummer, filled with several new orders for its compact thin film solar cell manufacturing system DUO. In its Ann...
Next-gen solar cells could be improved by atomic-scale redesign
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Solar cells harness energy from the Sun and provide an alternative to non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. However, they face challenges from costly ...
Installing solar to combat national security risks in the power grid
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
In a new paper published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, an interdisciplinary team of engineering and energy policy experts from Michigan Technolog...
Solar power not a favorite for New Zealand
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
An annual review of the New Zealand energy sector from the International Energy Agency described the country as a "success story" for its ability to advance on ...
Atomic-scale study could pave the way for better, longer-lasting solar cells
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers at Imperial College London have identified the mechanism that causes perovskite cells to degrade so quickly. Their findings could pave the way for a...
New technology generates power from polluted air
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
"We use a small device with two rooms separated by a membrane", explains professor Sammy Verbruggen (UAntwerp/KU Leuven). "Air is purified on one side, while on...
Discovery of new transparent thin film material could improve electronics and solar cells
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery is being published in Nature Communications, an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. R...
New device turns dirty air into energy
May 08, 2017 (UPI)
The device, which must be exposed to sunlight to function, features two chambers separated by a single membrane. The air is cleaned on one side, while contamina...
How photosynthetic cells deal with a lack of iron
May 08, 2017 (SPX)
Oxygenic photosynthesis - in which plants, algae and cyanobacteria generate oxygen and harvest solar energy for the synthesis of organic matter - is a process t...
First test flight of stratospheric solar plane
May 05, 2017 (AFP)
The SolarStratos, a super-light, sleek, white two-seater aircraft with long wings covered with solar panels, took off from Payerne at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), accord...
Renewable sources now almost one-fifth of US generating capacity
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Thirteen "units" of wind totaling 1,479 MW combined with 62 units of solar (939 MW) exceeded the 2,235 MW provided by 21 units of natural gas and 102 MW provide...
Indian Space Agency Test-Drives Solar Electric Hybrid Vehicle
May 04, 2017 (Sputnik)
The team working on the project developed a solar panel to fit on the roof of a car, along with an internal gearbox, control electronics for the battery and sol...
Photoluminescent display absorbs, converts light into energy
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
"Energy-harvesting laser phosphor display and its design considerations", published recently by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in the...
U.S. renewable power groups defend reliability
May 01, 2017 (UPI)
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April called for an investigation into the resilience and reliability of the nation's energy grid. With renewable resources ...
Light can improve perovskite solar cell performance
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Perovskites are materials of immense interest in solar energy technology lately, as they promise to bring down the cost of solar cells to very low levels. Their...
Modeling reveals how policy affects adoption of solar energy photovoltaics in California
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Federal and state governments are working to strengthen U.S. solar manufacturing to help reduce installation costs, for example. But successfully promoting gree...
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