SOLAR - RUSSO DAILY

Solar nano-grids light up homes and businesses in Kenya

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

Villagers in Lemolo B and Echareria in Nakuru County, Kenya, are waking up today to a new future as new solar nano-grids installed over the last two weeks allow...

Saved by the sun

Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)

A new twist on the use of renewable energy is saving children's lives in Africa. The innovation - a solar powered oxygen delivery system - is providing concentr...

Scientists explain unusual and effective features in perovskite

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

Perovskite is a material with an almost ideal structure. The majority of high-temperature superconductors are perovskite-based due to their non-ideal structure....

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...

'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...

Explosive renewables development can deliver on Paris

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

While some criticize the Paris climate target as impracticable, a team of scholars argues that it is - on the contrary - a triumph of realism. First, and most i...

Eating air, making fuel

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

All life on the planet relies, in one way or another, on a process called carbon fixation: the ability of plants, algae and certain bacteria to "pump" carbon di...

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...

Energy from sunlight: Further steps towards artificial photosynthesis

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich in Switzerland have come one step closer to generating energy from sunlight: for the first time, they were ab...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...