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Vast desert sun farm to help light up Morocco
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
On the edge of the Sahara desert, engineers make final checks to a sea of metal mirrors turned towards the sun, preparing for the launch of Morocco's first sola...
Spain wants to retake lead in renewable energy
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
A former global champion of renewable energy, Spain wants to make up the ground it lost during the economic crisis when it reversed its policy slashing subsidie...
Nigeria gets Africa's first football pitch lit by players
Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)
Africa's first football pitch lit solely by the players' movements has been inaugurated in Lagos, the economic hub of power-starved Nigeria, at a ceremony atten...
Chile plans hydropower plant -- in desert
Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)
Building a $400-million hydroelectric power plant in the world's most arid desert may seem like an engineering debacle, but Chile sees it as a revolutionary way...
Clean energy innovators ready to scale up operations
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
Clean energy start-ups and entrepreneurs have welcomed the Federal Government's renewed focus on innovation with the sector already primed to scale up its opera...
Saint Lucia showcases its renewable energy transition
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
Today, in keeping with its promise to transition to 35% renewable energy for electricity generation by 2020 and reduce electricity consumption in the Public Sec...
China energy giant CGN strikes 1.6bn euro French solar deal
Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)
Energy giant China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) said Thursday it plans to invest 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) over five years in a French firm wh...
New approaches for hybrid solar cells
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
Using a new procedure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich (LMU) can now produce extremely t...
Exploring the limits for high-performance LEDs and solar cells
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening the possibility for ...
PowerCell to hydrogen gas storage from excess renewable energy output
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
The leading fuel cell company PowerCell Sweden AB (publ) announces partnership with Wallenstam AB, Midroc Automation AB and Hydrogen Sweden to jointly launch a ...
NREL estimates economically viable US renewable generation
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are providing, for the first time, a method for measuring the economic potential...
Antiguan and Barbudan raising awareness towards solar power across Caribbean
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Given the 30% rise in energy demand in only one decade - caused by increasing industrialisation and regional development in the Caribbean - the Government of An...
New plastic solar cell minimizes loss of photon energy
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
As the world increasingly looks to alternative sources of energy, inexpensive and environmentally friendly polymer-based solar cells have attracted significant ...
A molecule that self-assembles into flower-shaped crystalline patterns
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to three research groups at Indiana University to advance research on self-assembling molecules and com...
EIA tracking small-scale solar PV capacity and generation across US
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
With the release of the Electric Power Monthly (EPM), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) begins regular reporting of monthly estimates of small-sc...
FSU researchers pushing limits of solar cells
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Florida State University researchers are striving to make solar cells more effective at trapping and using light. They're one step closer. In a new paper in the...
Fitch skeptical of RWE spinoff
Dec 04, 2015 (UPI)
Creating a new subsidiary to manage renewable energy for German energy company RWE adds a lay of uncertainty to creditors, Fitch Ratings warned. "RWE will trans...
Derby's new high-tech hub powered by 200-panel PV array
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
The Innovation Hub at the heart of Derby's multi-million pound Infinity Park Derby is now being powered by clean, onsite renewables thanks to a new 350m2 roofto...
Photonic 'sintering' may create new solar, electronics manufacturing technologies
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental breakthrough in understanding the physics of photonic "sintering," which could lead to many new adv...
Adapting to their environment: Romag's multi-functional BIPV
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Integrated into some of the UK's most striking buildings are the means to generate green energy for their occupants. Their secret is in the glass, or more speci...
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