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MicroLink devices delivers solar arrays to Prismatic for PHASA-35
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
These lightweight, flexible solar arrays have the highest specific power of any solar technology and enable the PHASA-35 to fly for months at a time powered by ...
Prodiel and Power China are to build the 296 MW Potrero Solar Photovoltaic Plant in Jalisco, Mexico
Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)
The contract is based on the Full EPC model and includes engineering, construction of the facility and the building of a 400-kV substation, as well as operation...
Azuri opens new Off-grid Solar Centre in Kisumu, Kenya
Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)
According to the Kisumu County Government, only 46% of the County's general population is connected to the grid. Azuri's new Solar Centre will bring affordable,...
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
"This discovery can potentially enable novel, highly-efficient solar cells, light detectors, photocathodes and light-driven chemical reactions," said Victor Kli...
Electrode-fitted microscope points to better designed devices that make fuel from sunlight
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
As reported in the journal Nature Materials, they discovered that as the size of the catalytic particles shrinks below 100 nanometers the collection of excited ...
National Solar Tour this weekend October 5/6 visits ABC Solar Research and Development
Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)
The National Solar Tour is the nation's largest grassroots solar event. Across the country, homeowners, businesses, volunteers, solar installers, public officia...
Bridging the information gap in solar energy
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
They bought the lantern and presented it, along with a genuine version, to the members of focus groups. Few of them were able to tell the difference. It was an ...
Even short-lived solar panels can be economically viable
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Rather, solar panels with initial lifetimes of as little as 10 years can sometimes make economic sense, even for grid-scale installations - thus potentially ope...
DGIST achieves the highest efficiency of flexible CZTSSe thin-film solar cell
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Flexible thin-film solar cell can be applied in various fields such as wearable, building, and automobiles based on the flexible substrate technology. Since CZT...
Device generates light from the cold night sky
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Remarkably, the device is able to generate electricity at night, when solar cells don't work," says lead author Aaswath Raman (@aaraman), an assistant professo...
Lighting the path to renewable energy
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Professor Mahesh Bandi of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has co-developed a novel, standardized way of quantifying and c...
Scorching growth for renewables thanks to solar: IEA
Sep 20, 2019 (AFP)
The IEA said it expects renewable capacity additions to grow by almost 12 percent this year, the fastest pace since 2015, to reach almost 200 gigawatts (GW), mo...
Speed bumps on German road to fight climate change
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
The "Energiewende", or clean energy transition, sometimes described as the biggest national project since reunification three decades ago, has hit a number of s...
Solar panels, vegan diets, no flights: meet America's climate revolutionaries
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's administration has made no secret of its disdain for climate science, but that hasn't stopped some ordinary Americans from finding w...
The long road to clean energy
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
- Booming renewables - Solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydro: over the past decade, global production capacity of renewable energies has increased fourfold. A...
Since cooling demand is primarily driven by the sun, could it also be powered by the sun?
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
More specifically, the study investigates whether the several billions of air-conditioning devices expected to come online within the 21st century could be powe...
Flexible solar cells a step closer to reality
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
A basic organic solar cell consists of a thin film of organic semiconductors sandwiched between two electrodes which extract charges generated in the organic se...
A decade of renewable energy investment, led by solar, tops over $2T
Sep 09, 2019 (SPX)
According to the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2019 report, released ahead of the UN Global Climate Action Summit, this investment is set to have...
Renewable energy surges as power emissions keep rising: UN
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
Worldwide investment in renewables since 2009 is on course to hit $2.6 trillion (2.35 trillion euros) by the end of the year, largely driven by "spectacular" fa...
Agrivoltaics proves mutually beneficial across food, water, energy nexus
Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)
Agrivoltaics, also known as solar sharing, is an idea that has been gaining traction in recent years; however, few studies have monitored all aspects of the ass...
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