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Columbia engineers develop floating solar fuels rig for seawater electrolysis
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Daniel Esposito, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been studying water electrolysis - the splitting of water into oxygen ...
French company ENGIE lays out 5.2 GW renewable goal
Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)
ENGIE said its joint venture with insurance company Crédit Agricole Assurances would work to acquire around 500 MW of onshore renewables by the end of next yea...
Global solar photovoltaic installations to exceed 100 Gigawatts in 2018
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
"Exceeding 108 gigawatts of PV installations is close to the top-end of what can be achieved, based on the global polysilicon manufacturing capacity," said Edur...
U.S. solar power group says it sees headwinds ahead
Dec 14, 2017 (UPI)
A report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association found total installed capacity topped 2 gigawatts in the third quarter, but the pace of g...
Glass with switchable opacity could improve solar cells and LEDs
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The glass exhibits another remarkable quality: It can be switched from hazy to clear by applying water. This could make it useful for creating smart windows tha...
Europe moves to grow green economy at Paris meeting
Dec 12, 2017 (UPI)
European and international delegates are in Paris this week for a series of climate-related events to mark the anniversary of the signing of the landmark agreem...
Guanidinium stabilizes perovskite solar cells at 19 percent efficiency
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
In particular, organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites offer manufacturing versatility that can potentially translate into much higher efficiency: studies hav...
Solar power advances possible with new 'double-glazing' device
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
This unique approach, developed by Dr Gavin Bell and Dr Yorck Ramachers from Warwick's Department of Physics, uses gas - rather than vacuum - to transport elect...
Transformation to wind and solar achievable with low indirect GHG emissions
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
They also show that a full decarbonization of the global power sector by scaling up these technologies would induce only modest indirect greenhouse gas emission...
India faces painful move to cleaner energy
Dec 10, 2017 (AFP)
Last year, the farmer walked into a field in his village and suffered 70 percent burns to his feet and ankles from an underground coal fire caused by a nearby p...
Sustainable solvent platform for photon upconversion increases solar utilization efficiency
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
In the past decade, a method of photon upconversion that uses triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) of organic molecules has drawn attention because it is presentl...
Gore Mountain ski resort completes massive solar farm
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Gore Mountain's massive snowmaking system, lift operations, and other electrical equipment use about 13-million kilowatt hours of power and cost approximately $...
Windows of opportunity: Solar cell with improved transparency
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Conventional solar cells contain silicon, which captures sunlight and converts its energy to electricity. The panels are dark, because silicon absorbs light acr...
NREL develops switchable solar window
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
Relying on such advanced materials as perovskites and single-walled carbon nanotubes, the new technology responds to heat by transforming from transparent to ti...
Burkina, France launch W.Africa's biggest solar plant
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
The 55-hectare (135-acre) outside the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou, has an annual capacity equivalent to five percent of national production, according to the ...
Improving solar cells by watching atoms move in hybrid perovskite crystals
Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)
Using X-ray beams and lasers, researchers studied how a new promising class of solar cell materials, called hybrid perovskites, behaves at the nanoscale level d...
Burkina Faso launches Sahel region's largest solar power plant
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
The 55-hectare (135-acre) plant at Zagtouli on the outskirts of the capital Ouagadougou will be able to churn out 33 megawatts -- enough to power tens of thousa...
Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
"Carbon capture and renewable energy are two promising technologies, but there are problems," says Phil De Luna, one of the lead authors of a paper published in...
Expanding wavelength range for solar energy conversion
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
Hydrogen can be produced by splitting water (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). There are many ways to do this, but among the cleanest - hence most attrac...
Glass microparticles enhance solar cells efficiency
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
Moreover, the suggested method may be attractive for industrial applications due to its relatively low cost and simplicity. An entire range of materials can be ...
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