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Leclanche selects NEXTracker's NX Drive Energy storage system for various applications
Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)
In this installation, NX Drive ESS will be utilized as a stand-alone system, incorporating a storage inverter and entire ESS within the enclosure to help power ...
U.S. solar segment depended on Asia in 2016
Feb 15, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a daily brief that in 2016 two thirds of the solar modules, measured in direct current, imported into the Uni...
Researchers discover new lead-free perovskite material for solar cells
Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)
Now a group of researchers at Brown University and University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) has come up with a new titanium-based material for making lead-free, i...
China's Solar-Powered Drone Test-Fires Missiles in Near Space
Feb 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
The People's Liberation Army tested a variant of its CH-4 Rainbow drone for six days, the People's Daily reported February 12, conducting live-fire trials in ex...
Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030
Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)
The NREL analysis presents a potential roadmap for achieving the 2030 residential target of $0.05 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) by identifying and quantifying a plaus...
Avoiding blackouts with 100 percent renewable energy
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
In their paper, published as a manuscript this week in Renewable Energy, the researchers propose three different methods of providing consistent power among all...
Smart new method to manufacture organic solar cells
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The energy efficiency of organic solar cells is approaching that of conventional silicon solar cells, but they don't necessarily have to compete on the same mar...
Monitoring positive charges in solar materials
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
All of these applications rely on the generation of negative (electrons) and positive (holes) charges, and the understanding of their evolution as a function of...
Revealing the hidden path of perovskite formation
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
One of the main methods for depositing perovskite films onto panel structures is a process known as sequential deposition reaction, which was developed in 2013 ...
Farm sunshine, not cancer: Replacing tobacco fields with solar arrays
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
Ram Krishnan, now an engineer designing large solar systems in the rapidly expanding U.S. solar industry, and Joshua Pearce, professor of materials science and ...
New approach could quickly identify best organic solar cell mixtures
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
Presently, chemists working to design more efficient organic solar cells rely heavily on "post-mortem" or post-manufacture analysis of the distribution of the c...
Production of solar fuels inches closer with discovery by Caltech scientists
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
For years, solar-fuel research has focused on developing catalysts that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen using only sunlight. The resulting hydrogen fue...
NREL scientists demonstrate remarkable stability in perovskite solar cells
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunlight into electricit...
Kyocera team update progress of 480-Megawatt solar power project
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
Photovolt Development Partners GmbH (hereafter "PVDP") began planning the solar power project in April 2013 with the aim of helping to contribute to environment...
Solar heat could make power and water for Namibia
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
A research study from Stellenbosch University finds that a 100 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant adapted to also "co-generate" water via multi-effect dist...
Cal Poly dedicates 4.5 Megawatt solar farm
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
In addition to the environmental benefits, the energy it produces will provide direct savings of about $10 million on Cal Poly's utility bills over 20 years and...
China hits back after US tariffs
Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)
The commerce ministry announced the self-initiated probe on Sunday, just weeks after President Donald Trump's administration slapped its latest batch of tariffs...
Tesla, Australia to turn 50,000 homes into power generators
Feb 04, 2018 (AFP)
South Australia is already home to world's biggest battery in an Elon Musk-driven project to provide electricity for more than 30,000 homes. The state governmen...
Octopus completes refinancing of subsidy free Italian solar projects
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
The 23m euros financing package has been provided by MPS Capital Services Banca per le Imprese (MPSCS) and represents a new landmark deal for solar in Europe - ...
Kyocera TCL Solar completes 21MW solar plant on repurposed land
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
A ceremony was held on January 11 to commemorate completion of the plant, which will generate an estimated 23,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year - enough electri...
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