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State leaders, businesses, take up U.S. low-carbon effort

Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)

A bubble-up approach to building a low-carbon U.S. economy will help offset the emphasis on fossil fuels from Washington, leaders and advocates said. President ...

New Stanford study calls for US solar policy reform

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

The rapidly expanding solar energy industry could meaningfully contribute to curbing climate change only if governments and the private sector approach it more ...

Artificial photosynthesis steps into the light

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Rice University scientists have created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture oxygen-evolution catalyst that pairs well with semiconductors for solar water splitt...

Revealing the microscopic mechanisms in perovskite solar cells

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A material with the perovskite crystal structure has become very popular for solar cells. While most perovskites are inorganic compounds, this new material is a...

New solar energy plant to be installed on Barbuda

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

The government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) further strives toward the realisation of generating 20 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy resources...

Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cells

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Five years ago, the world started to talk about third-generation solar cells that challenged the traditional silicon cells with a cheaper and simpler manufactur...

Dubai harvests desert sun at vast solar plant

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Dubai on Monday completed a solar plant big enough to power 50,000 homes as part of a plan to generate three-quarters of its energy from renewables by 2050. The...

Sea change needed for low-carbon economy

Mar 20, 2017 (UPI)

Nearly 70 percent of all new cars need to be electric and $3.5 trillion in annual investments are needed to keep global warming at bay, a new report found. The ...

Nuera Solar Announces Partnership with The Solar Village Project

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Nuera Solar has announced a partnership with the Solar Village Project, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that delivers light and power to communities in Afr...

EU close to 2020 renewable energy target

Mar 14, 2017 (UPI)

Members of the European Union are about 3 percentage points away from meeting their 2020 objectives for renewable energy, its statistics office reported. Member...

Perovskite edges can be tuned for optoelectronic performance

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

In the eternal search for next generation high-efficiency solar cells and LEDs, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their partners are creating inn...

Iran and Middle East could adopt fully renewable electricity systems

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Iran can transition to a fully renewable electricity system and financially benefit from it by 2030. Researchers at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) ...

EU funding renewable energy efforts in Algeria

Mar 13, 2017 (UPI)

Algeria, a member of OPEC, will get support in its efforts to diversify its economy with a $42.7 million package supporting renewable energy, the EU said. Membe...

Installation of solar solutions on Jumby Bay island completed

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

The twin-island state Antigua and Barbuda has taken a leading role in terms of clean energy supply in the Caribbean. This leadership has now once again been str...

One of the largest Solar Manufacturers in the US increases production capacity

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Seraphim Solar has entered into their next phase of development- on target with initial projections. With 160MW of manufacturing capacity online as a component ...

Chemists create molecular 'leaf' that collects and stores solar power without solar panels

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by Liang-shi Li at Indiana University has achieved a new milestone in the quest to recycle carbon dioxide in the Earth's...

New study shines light on photosynthesis

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Terry Bricker, Moreland Family Professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Biological Sciences, and colleagues at Palacky University in the ...

Gaz Metro Acquires Standard Solar

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Gaz Metro Limited Partnership has announced the acquisition, through one of its subsidiaries, of Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy firm specializing ...

SolarReserve Helps Netcare Lower Their Energy Costs

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

SolarReserve, a leading global energy developer with 246 megawatts of solar capacity already on-line in South Africa, has worked with Netcare Limited to roll ou...

U.S. solar market set new record in 2016

Mar 08, 2017 (UPI)

The solar market in the United States had its best year on record in 2016, according to researchers with the Solar Energy Industries Association. In a study pub...