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ABB to install multipurpose microgrid in Australia
Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)
In Australia, the increase of intermittent renewables within the power grid is adding complexity for grid operators. In South Australia wind farms generate the ...
New material for splitting water
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a new class of materials - halide double perovskites - may have just the right properties to split water, according to a newly published paper in Applied P...
KYOCERA to participate in Japan's virtual power plant project to improve energy management
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
Part of a larger program to test a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) utilizing consumer renewable energy resources, Kyocera has been involved in the government project ...
Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite push achieve record efficiency over 25 percent
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
However, after decades of research and investment, silicon-based solar cells are now close to their maximum theoretical efficiency. As a result, new concepts ar...
Solar FlexRack completes shipments to 71 MW solar project in North Carolina
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
"As long-term solar project owners and operators, they care about the quality of the systems they install which resonates with our values as a quality-driven or...
Wartsila leading along the path towards a 100% renewable energy future
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Central to maintaining a sustainable and profitable future for the industry is the need to maximise renewable generation, which is made possible by generating a...
SoftBank plans $60-100 bn investment in solar in India: report
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
The report by public broadcaster NHK comes after SoftBank announced in March it would partner Saudi Arabia on a multi-billion dollar solar project that the comp...
EU sets higher target for renewable energy by 2030
Jun 14, 2018 (AFP)
But environmentalists said the provisional deal between the 28 European Union countries, the European Parliament and the European Commission, the EU's executive...
Confined, insensitive light could improve lasers, solar cells
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
A team of physicists from Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Illinois have demonstrated in a proof-of-concept experiment that they ...
Solenergy designs and constructs largest self-consumption energy system in SEA
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
The system is composed of 17,040 solar panels from Canadian Solar Inc., covering a roof area of over 27,000sqm. The panels are then connected to 213 Fronius Int...
German utility makes solar debut in Texas
Jun 12, 2018 (UPI)
E.ON announced plans for a 100-megawatt facility in Reeves County, Texas. It's already made agreements for half of that capacity for the next 50 years with Sout...
Lead-free, efficient perovskite for photovoltaic cells
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
As strong candidates for next-generation high-efficiency photovoltaic cells, perovskite photovoltaic cells have a maximum photoconversion efficiency of 22%, com...
Freedom Solar steers Austin Subaru dealership into fast lane of sustainability
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
The new solar array will offset 75 percent of the dealership's energy needs, reduce the cost of its average monthly utility bill from roughly $3,000 to roughly ...
Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
In an open-access Nature Communications paper, researchers led by Los Alamos scientists Aditya Mohite and Jean-Christophe Blancon, both of whom will join Rice t...
Optimized mounting enables shorter solar power purchase deals for the mining sector
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
For mines in production and even more so in mining exploration, the lifetime of the solar system often does not correspond to the need for power at a specific l...
Flexible solar cells: Will they someday power your devices?
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
For the electronic cells to be viable on an industrial scale, they would have to be made through roll-to-roll processing - that is, be churned out on rolls of f...
New Chinese solar policies deliver short-term blow
Jun 06, 2018 (SPX)
China last week introduced policy that suspends the approval of subsidized power stations and mandates certain prices through competitive auctions. According to...
French energy company ENGIE claims renewable edge
Jun 06, 2018 (SPX)
"The alliance of the two groups -- and in particular the specific skills of LANGA teams on roofs and ground-based power plants, as well as the general portfolio...
SOVENTIX completes solar plant in KNYSNA elephant park in South Africa
Jun 01, 2018 (SPX)
With the project, SOVENTIX successfully continues its successful initiative for the expansion of solar energy in Africa through crowdfunding. Only recently, a p...
UK set to smash renewable energy targets for 2020
Jun 01, 2018 (SPX)
Reflecting the large-scale uptake of clean energy worldwide-with China and India spearheading the expansion in terms of consumption and production -the number o...
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