SOLAR - RUSSO DAILY

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

In the Energy Technology journal, researchers from KIT now present sunglasses with colored, semitransparent solar cells applied onto lenses that supply a microp...

Chinese renewable energy capacity growing rapidly

Aug 01, 2017 (UPI)

Beijing issued a white paper last year, which stated the Communist Party of China is "committed to the concept of environment-friendly development." The paper s...

World Bank tries to make Pacific solar power decisions easier

Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)

At a regional energy summit in Samoa, the World Bank said it was detailing the potential for its online solar atlas, which gives interested parties the means to...

Schneider Electric India commissions 720 kWp solar plant at its manufacturing facility in Vadodara

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

The solar project, built on a rooftop area of 6,000 square meters, covers almost 45% of the total factory load and will produce over 1.05 million units of elect...

A new picture emerges on the origins of photosynthesis in a sun-loving bacteria

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

With today's solar panels limited by their efficiency (currently, more than 80 percent of available solar energy is lost as heat), scientists have been looking ...

Study shows India can integrate 175 GW of renewable energy into its electricity grid

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

Working with the Ministry of Power and USAID - with co-sponsorship from the World Bank (ESMAP) and the 21st Century Power Partnership - NREL; Power System Opera...

A new optimization model could bring higher solar-power integration

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

Demand response (DR) is one promising way to increase operational flexibility and energy efficiency. However, little research has been conducted on a large scal...

UNIST hits new world efficiency record with perovskite solar cells

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

This breakthrough comes from a research, conducted by Distinguished Professor Sang-Il Seok of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Pro...

Cubico completes acquisition of Andasol 1 and Andasol 2 concentrated solar power plants in Spain

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

The plants use parabolic trough thermosolar technology with 7.5 hours of thermal salt storage, which, combined with an oversized solar field, allows the plants ...

Measure adds Aerial Solar Plant Inspections to Drone Services Portfolio

Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)

The new turnkey solutions enable solar facility owners, asset managers and O and M contractors to realize the cost and operational benefits of aerial inspection...

Solar Toolkit Developed to Help Municipalities Advance Solar Projects

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

The Solar PILOT Toolkit provides a framework for local taxing jurisdictions to negotiate payment agreements with solar developers. In addition to their clean en...

Non-toxic alternative for next-generation solar cells

Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)

The team of researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the United States, have used theoretical and experimental methods to show how bismuth - the so-cal...

India's ageing trains get green makeover with solar panels

Jul 19, 2017 (AFP)

The lighting, fans and information displays inside the train -- once powered by diesel -- will run off the sun's energy after the panels were fitted to the carr...

More EU praise for progress on renewable energy

Jul 17, 2017 (UPI)

Vice President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic met Monday with Portuguese leaders to discuss clean energy and national energy plans. Largely isolated from Europ...

Making two out of one

Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists and chemists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) collaborating in an international joint project with Northwestern University ...

meeco to equip 57 roofs in Guyana with sun2roof solar energy installations

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

"We are delighted to have been awarded the tender for the installation of in total 740 kWp on diverse roofs of government-owned facilities such as schools, poli...

Investors Generate 174,000,000 kWh of Renewable Electricity

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

THRIVE investors see long-term impact, year on year, through growth in the portfolio resulting in the generation of more kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity...

There Will Always be Sun on this Horizon

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

Horizon Beverage selected Beaumont Solar to fully engineer, design and construct the system. Consisting of 2,990 solar panels, Horizon Beverage's rooftop solar ...

SolarEdge Launching First PV Inverter-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charger

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

SolarEdge's HD-Wave inverter, once integrated with an EV charger, will not only provide the existing management and monitoring of solar production, but will als...

Meniscus-assisted technique produces high efficiency perovskite PV films

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

The process, which uses parallel plates to create a meniscus of ink containing the metal halide perovskite precursors, could be scaled up to rapidly generate la...