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Support for renewables lacking, global reports find
May 19, 2015 (UPI)
A report from the International Energy Agency in Paris finds the pace at which renewable energy is advancing is lagging far behind global goals for 2030. A join...
Victoria looking to take advantage of massive renewable energy opportunity
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
Victoria's push for a separate and binding state renewable energy target is a welcome recognition of the jobs and investment benefits that can flow from renewab...
Efficiency record for black silicon solar cells jumps to 22.1 percent
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
The researchers from Finland's Aalto University and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya have obtained the record-breaking efficiency of 22.1% on nanostructured...
New shortcut to solar cells
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Rice University scientists have found a way to simplify the manufacture of solar cells by using the top electrode as the catalyst that turns plain silicon into ...
Trina to deploy an additional 2.2MW to Wymeswold Solar Farm
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Trina Solar has announced that it has been selected by solar energy specialist Foresight Group LLP (Foresight) to supply a 2.2MW extension to Wymeswold Solar Fa...
British secretary calls for 'solar revolution'
May 15, 2015 (UPI)
Incoming British Energy Secretary Amber Rudd told her local newspaper she aims to usher in a "solar revolution" through the new administration. British Prime Mi...
Array Technologies Led Global Solar PV Tracker Rankings in 2014
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
The global PV tracker market increased by more than 60 percent, to reach 4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, according to a new report from IHS (IHS), the leading global ...
Con Edison Buys 140 Megawatts of Solar Projects in California
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Con Edison Development, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., has acquired six shovel-ready solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling 140 megawatts (MWDC) ...
Artificial photosynthesis: New, stable photocathode with great potential
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days: if you hold two electrodes into an aqueous electrolyte and apply a sufficie...
The thin film solar cell industry in transition
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
Prices of solar cells and solar panels have fallen dramatically over the last few years. This (and state subsidies) has been good for the advancement of this am...
Chemistry student in sun harvest breakthrough
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
The Sun is a huge source of energy. In just one hour planet Earth is hit by so much sunshine that humankind could cover its energy needs for an entire year if o...
Renewable energy vital for Internet lifestyles: Greenpeace
May 12, 2015 (AFP)
A Greenpeace report released on Tuesday charged utilities with hampering efforts to use renewable energy to power data centers needed for services hosted in the...
Vikram Solar commissions 40 MW PV plant in Madhya Pradesh
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
The project was awarded to IL and FS Energy Development Company Ltd by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar M...
Inkjet printing process for kesterite solar cells
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
The drop-on-demand inkjet printing is a promising approach allowing patterning of materials with negligible materials waste; hence, significant reduction of raw...
Trina Solar building new factory in Thailand
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
Trina Solar Limited has set up Trina Solar Science and Technology (Thailand) Ltd., a subsidiary company in Thailand to build a manufacturing facility with 500 M...
Surging solar demand to trigger record high supply chain profits
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
IHS has identified at least 89 countries with solar photovoltaic (PV) end-markets that will show growth in solar installations in 2015, which is forecast to dri...
Field-effect transistors on hybrid perovskites fabricated for first time
May 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Utah are the first to successfully fabricate halide organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite field-effe...
IHS PV Inverter Rankings: Asian Suppliers Take Another Big Leap
May 06, 2015 (SPX)
According to IHS the top five photovoltaic (PV) inverter suppliers' rankings remained largely unchanged in 2014; however, the combined share of European supplie...
Breakthrough in solar cell material reported in MRS Communications
May 06, 2015 (SPX)
A groundbreaking paper on hybrid perovskites, one of the hottest solar cell and LED materials, just published in MRS Communications, a flagship journal of the M...
Sunrun and Tesla Collaborate To Offer Consumers Home Energy Storage
May 06, 2015 (SPX)
Sunrun has announced its collaboration with Tesla Motors to expand access to renewable energy storage systems for homeowners across the country. As part of the ...
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