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Scientists show a new way to absorb electromagnetic radiation

Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)

A team of authors from MIPT, Kansas State University, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have demonstrated that it is possible to fully absorb electromagnet...

Juno Spacecraft Breaks Solar Power Distance Record

Jan 14, 2016 (JPL)

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST...

SolarEdge's StorEdge Solution is Now Internationally Available

Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)

SolarEdge Technologies has announced the immediate international availability of its StorEdge solution. At the end of 2015, the company already completed a numb...

China Pushed Global Renewable Installed Capacity Beyond 900 Gigawatts in 2015

Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)

China was the world's leading market across a number of renewable energy technologies in 2015 and helped to drive global renewable installed capacity to an esti...

Green campaigners back Italian giant's tilt to renewable energy

Jan 11, 2016 (AFP)

Italian energy giant Enel was Monday putting the finishing touches to a corporate restructure designed to put renewables at the core of the company's strategy i...

X-rays reveal details of plastic solar cell production

Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)

Plastic solar cells are light, easy to install, and readily produced using a printer. Nevertheless, the processes that take place on the molecular scale during ...

Optimum band gap for hybrid silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell

Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)

Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules. A tandem solar cell works by absorbing the ...

Visualizing atoms of perovskite crystals

Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)

Organic-inorganic perovskite materials are key components of the new generation of solar cells. Understanding properties of these materials is important for imp...

NREL and CSEM jointly set new efficiency record with dual-junction solar cell

Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have jointl...

Pedal, solar power aims to be the new hybrid

Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)

Is it a car, a bike or some other kind of contraption? It looks like an inverted tricycle with an egg-shaped shell. The makers of the Elf vehicle tout it as the...

Renewable energy for state renewable portfolio standards yielded sizable benefits

Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)

A new study estimates that $2.2 billion in benefits came from reduced greenhouse gas emissions and $5.2 billion from reductions in other air pollution for state...

How to train your bacterium

Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)

Trainers of dogs, horses, and other animal performers take note: a bacterium named Moorella thermoacetica has been induced to perform only a single trick, but i...

Researchers teach bacterium how to photosynthesize

Jan 04, 2016 (UPI)

For the first time, researchers have trained a non-photosynthetic baterium to perform photosynthesis. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? The bacter...

Milbank advises on purchase of stake in solar portfolio from Dominion

Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)

In its latest major transaction in the solar power sector, a Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP deal team led by corporate partner John Franchini and project...

Cellular sensor helps plants find light

Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)

Despite seeming passive, plants wage wars with each other to outgrow and absorb sunlight. If a plant is shaded by another, it becomes cut off from essential sun...

New drama at Hanergy as boss sells stake at massive discount

Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)

The boss of Beijing-based solar energy firm Hanergy Thin Film Power Group is selling a stake in the company at a massive discount in Hong Kong, as the once high...

Morocco postpones opening of huge solar plant without explanation

Dec 27, 2015 (AFP)

Morocco postponed without explanation the inauguration of Noor-1, a solar power plant due to open Sunday in Ouarzazate, part of what will eventually be the worl...

Solar Impulse 2 ready to fly again by April 20: spokeswoman

Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)

The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2, grounded in Hawaii since the summer for repairs, will be ready to fly again by April 20, the project's spokeswoman told A...

London boasts of low-carbon achievements

Dec 22, 2015 (UPI)

For the third quarter of 2015, low-carbon electricity generation for the British energy sector was higher than last year by 7.2 percent, the government said. Th...

Solar cells that can face almost any direction and keep themselves clean

Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)

In recent years, a complicated discussion over which direction solar cells should face - south or west - has likely left customers uncertain about the best way ...