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Modelling a future fuelled by sustainable energy
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Raul Barreto, Senior Lecturer from the University's School of Economics, has examined the short and long-term consequences of the relative productivity diffe...
Trina Solar supplies 17MW to the largest floating PV system in Europe
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
Once operational, the plant located in Piolenc (Vaucluse) will produce 100% renewable energy covering the consumption of more than 4,700 households. The plant i...
A solar cell that does double duty for renewable energy
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP...
Solar Electric StratoAirNet Prototype Completes Additional Flights
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
The prototype made six short flights, with further data collected on take-off and landing performance, climb rate, aero-efficiency and motor and battery operati...
Low cost, energy-saving radiative cooling system ready for real-world applications
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
The new research demonstrates how the low-cost hybrid organic-inorganic radiative cooling metamaterial, which debuted in 2017, can be scaled into a roughly 140-...
Highly efficient wet-processed solar cells with molecules in the same orientation
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
Organic solar cells are produced by two different chemical methods: dry processing and wet processing, with the latter being a faster method. There are several ...
Poor Ivory Coast pupils' ray of hope: solar backpacks
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
Back home in the evening, eight-year-old Marie-France Amoandji Ngbessoo does her homework by the light of her backpack's LED -- captured by solar panels on her ...
China's solar subsidy cuts will help US developers to revive projects and jobs, says GlobalData
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
Solar power developers in the US have been struggling since early 2018 due to two separate policy decisions announced in the US and China. In January 2018, the ...
How graphite is lighting the way to a solar future
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
With news earlier this year that solar and wind power could be used to generate as much as 80% of all the United States' energy needs, graphite is fast becoming...
New material, manufacturing process use sun's heat for cheaper renewable electricity
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power - as heat energy - more efficient in ...
Trina Solar Supplies Modules to Ukraine's Largest Solar Power Plant
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
Located near Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine, the project has a planned capacity of 246MW and will be capable of producing 280 million kWh of ...
Renewable energy is common ground for Democrats and Republicans
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
Regardless of political standing, age or gender, U.S. voters are in favor of renewable energy, according to research by Christine Horne, professor of sociology ...
New technique for turning sunshine and water into hydrogen fuel
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
Due to the intensifying environmental problems such as air pollution and global warming caused by the increased use of fossil energy, hydrogen is recently drawi...
Efficiently turning light into electricity
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
New research performed in collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UA) and Osaka University (OU) and led by prof. Tom Gregorkiewicz (UA, OU) and prof....
Supersizing solar cells: researchers print module six times bigger than previous largest
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
The breakthrough shows that the technology works at a larger scale, not just in the lab, which is crucial for encouraging industry to take it up. Each of the ma...
Artificial enzymes convert solar energy into hydrogen gas
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
Hydrogen gas has long been noted as a promising energy carrier, but its production is still dependent on fossil raw materials. Renewable hydrogen gas can be ext...
Simple fabrication of full-color perovskite LEDs
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Jin Young Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. In the study, the research team introduced ...
SOVENTIX realises the largest solar project in Zimbabwe at 22 MWp
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
The local villagers of the Bwoni Community shall own 10% of this project through a Community Development Share Ownership Trust. The project is due to start in O...
New Solar Bible Happily Includes CPUC Required Solar Information Disclosures in latest 265 Page Edition
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
The Solar Bible is a workbook that allows the homeowner to understand the solar investment and how it will impact their electric bill. Available on Amazon and f...
Philippines revs up flagging green energy engine
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The Philippines -- thanks to its spot in the Ring of Fire zone of Pacific volcanoes -- has long been one of the world's top producers of geothermal power, but y...
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