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US, Canada and Mexico pledge to boost clean energy
Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)
The United States, Canada and Mexico will promise on Wednesday to generate half their overall electricity from clean energy by 2025, the White House said. "We b...
'Flower Power': Photovoltaic cells replicate rose petals
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
With a surface resembling that of plants, solar cells improve light-harvesting and thus generate more power. Scientists of KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog...
Coal to solar: Retraining the energy workforce
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
As more coal-fired power plants are retired, industry workers are left without many options. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, though. In a new study p...
Beamreach Solar launches with lightweight System for commercial roofs
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Beamreach Solar has announced the introduction of Sprint, its new lightweight photovoltaic (PV) solar panel system for flat commercial roofs. Sprint's light wei...
Solar cells for greener and safer energies
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Nowadays, our world is in search of cleaner energy sources to power our increasing industrial and economical needs. Solar energy is becoming an alternative sour...
Ultra-thin solar cells can easily bend around a pencil
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists in South Korea have made ultra-thin photovoltaics flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The bendy solar cells could power wearable elect...
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to be shut down
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
An historic agreement has been reached between Pacific Gas and Electric, Friends of the Earth, and other environmental and labor organizations to replace the Di...
Imec demonstrates bifacial solar cells with near 100% bifaciality
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
Imec, the world-leading nano-electronics research center and partner in Energyville, will present at this week's Intersolar Europe/EU PVSEC a highly efficient b...
Momentum for solar-diesel hybrid microgrids in the Zambian mining industry
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
In recent years, an ongoing drought has caused a severe power crisis in Zambia. The new analysis "Power crisis and consequences for solar energy in the Zambian ...
Solar PV Recycling Offers Significant Untapped Business Opportunity
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) boom currently underway will represent a significant untapped business opportunity as decommissioned solar panels enter the w...
Solar plane completes first-ever Atlantic flight
Jun 23, 2016 (AFP)
The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain Thursday after completing a 71-hour flight from New York in the first "magical" solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-power...
Solar plane powers on over Atlantic after turbulence
Jun 22, 2016 (AFP)
The Solar Impulse 2 plane went through "a long night of turbulence" over the Atlantic, its weary pilot said Wednesday as he continued on the challenging leg of ...
Solar Impulse 2 begins Atlantic crossing
Jun 21, 2016 (AFP)
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft was soaring Monday over the western Atlantic, one of the most difficult legs of its record-breaking bid to fly across the globe usi...
New, flexible solar cells just 1 micrometer thick
Jun 20, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers in South Korea have developed solar cells, or photovoltaics, so flexible and thin they they can be wrapped around a pencil. Scientists say they coul...
In Israeli desert, world's highest solar tower looks to future
Jun 19, 2016 (AFP)
In the middle of southern Israel's desert, engineers are hard at work building the world's tallest solar tower, reflecting the country's high hopes for renewabl...
New generation of high-efficiency solar thermal absorbers developed
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter are one step closer to developing a new generation of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. The structu...
OPDE builds three community solar farms in UK with a total capacity of 15 MW
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
The multinational OPDE, who specialises in the development, construction and operation of photovoltaic farms, has completed the construction of three new photov...
Novel capping strategy improves stability of perovskite nanocrystals
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Perovskite materials have shown great promise for use in next-generation solar cells, light-emitting devices (LEDs), sensors, and other applications, but their ...
World Bank finds cash moving to renewables
Jun 14, 2016 (UPI)
Investments in renewable energy made up more than half of all private investments last year, signaling a low-carbon shift is under way, the World Bank said. A r...
Cheap gas, coal won't hobble renewables: energy report
Jun 13, 2016 (AFP)
Weak coal and gas prices will not stop record investment in renewables over the coming decades as the cost of generating clean energy drops, a key energy report...
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