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ABC Solar files lawsuit to enforce Solar Rights Act
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Today, ABC Solar Incorporated ("ABC Solar") filed a lawsuit to vindicate the rights of California homeowners to receive expedited approval of solar energy on th...
Highly efficient organic solar cells with improved operation stability
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
A new type of organic solar cells (OSCs) with 11.6% efficiency has been developed by a research team, affiliated with UNIST. This solar cell maintained almost 8...
NREL model offers insights of higher wind and solar generation in US east
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
A new study from the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and inn...
Energy hijacking pathway found within photosynthesis
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
An unexpected source of inefficiency within a photosynthetic enzyme has been identified by scientists. The issue also adversely affects the performance of devic...
juwi Group announces expansion for Solar Power Plant in Fukushima Province
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
juwi is expanding its international footprint with a new project in Japan. In the province of Fukushima, that still suffers from the catastrophic reactor accide...
UMASS Amherst taps Con Edison solutions for large-scale solar power initiative
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has retained ConEdison Solutions (CES) for a campus-wide solar power initiative expected to reduce university electric b...
NREL report shows US solar photovoltaic costs continuing to fall in 2016
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The modeled costs to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems continued to decline in the first quarter of 2016 in the U.S. residential, commercial, and utility-...
X-ray vision reveals how polymer solar cells wear out
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Technical University of Munich have used the acurate X-ray vision provided by DESY's radiation source PETRA III to observe the degradation o...
Nanoscale confinement leads to new all-inorganic solar cell
Oct 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quan...
Midsummer receives new order for its DUO thin film solar cell manufacturing system
Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)
Midsummer has received a repeat order for its compact DUO solar cell manufacturing system from an undisclosed Asian customer. This new order was received in con...
Record for perovskite/CIGS tandem solar module
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Thin-film technologies can dramatically reduce the cost of next-generation solar modules. Whereas their production cost is low, it is in particular the combinat...
Non-toxic solvent removes barrier to commercialization of perovskite solar cells
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Oxford University have developed a solvent system with reduced toxicity that can be used in the manufacture of perovskite solar cells, clearing on...
Toward 'greener,' inexpensive solar cells
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Solar panels are proliferating across the globe to help reduce the world's dependency on fossil fuels. But conventional panels are not without environmental cos...
S.Africa basks in continent's first solar-powered airport
Oct 09, 2016 (AFP)
At first glance there's nothing out of the ordinary about the regional airport in George, a town of just 150,000 residents on South Africa's south coast. In fac...
Food waste could store solar and wind energy
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
Saving up excess solar and wind energy for times when the sun is down or the air is still requires a storage device. Batteries get the most attention as a promi...
Efficient organic solar cells with very low driving force
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
It was believed that efficient operation of organic solar cells requires a large driving force, which limits the efficiency of organic solar cells. Now, a large...
Global grand challenge strategy needed to develop clean energy
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
In a comment in this week's science journal Nature, an international group of researchers from nine countries call for a grand challenges strategy to set global...
Alberta takes first look at solar
Oct 06, 2016 (UPI)
The provincial government of Alberta said it was looking at whether solar power could replace expiring contracts to power its buildings. Alberta's government is...
New advances in solar cell technology
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
With the high environmental cost of conventional energy sources and the finite supply of fossil fuels, the importance of renewable energy sources has become muc...
Researchers report advance in low-cost clean energy generation
Oct 04, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported a substantial advance in generating electricity through a combi...
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