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New approach forever cycle evaluation of PV innovations
Scientists in Australia have actually performed a 'cradle to grave' life process evaluation (LCA) to gauge the life process analysis of the 4 most extensively utilized PV modern technologies. The academics claim that cadmium telluride solar components have the most affordable life process effect, complied with by amorphous, multi and also monocrystalline silicon items.
May 19, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Oceania, Charles Darwin University
Vattenfall helps biodiversity flourish within solar projects
Vattenfall is investing EUR50m in 2020-2021 in solar power and also energy storage projects that likewise promote regional eco-friendly systems as well as biodiversity.
Jun 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Europe, Vattenfall, solar projects, Puck Sanders, Annemarie Schouten
BASF Secures Long-Term Renewable Energy Deal in China
BASF signs a decade-long deal for 100% renewable energy in China, powering its commitment to sustainability and net-zero emissions by 2050. Green transformation starts here!
Oct 11, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, BASF
Vast Renewables Enters Voluntary Administration Amid CSP Woes
Vast Renewables enters voluntary administration, halting trading and clouding its VS1 and Solar Methanol 1 projects, as administrators weigh recapitalisation, asset sales, and jobs hang in the balance.
Nov 14, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, Vast Renewables
BASF Switches On 5.8 MWh NAS Battery System in Belgium
Even as Lithium-Ion batteries reign for vehicle usages, various other cell chemistry's are being proactively checked out for stationary storage.
The emphasis is on attaining storage services that come with a lower expense, with even more sustainably sourced basic materials.
Oct 5, 2021 // Storage, BASF, BASF New Business, BNB, Frank Prechtl, long-term energy storage system, NAS batteries, NGK Insulators Ltd.
Evonik Launches New Processing Aids For Improving Photovoltaic Wafer Cutting
TEGO ® Surten E processing aids for solar industry debut in China
Faster as well as better wafer cutting enables a lot more efficient and also
cost-effective solar power
May 20, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Evonik, solar manufacturing, benjamin brehmer, diamond wire saws, TEGO Surten E, wafer cutting
US Solar Manufacturer CubicPV Abandons 10GW Plant Amidst Collapsing Prices
US solar manufacturer CubicPV abandons plans for 10GW solar wafer facility due to collapsing prices and high costs. Focus shifts to module development and partnership with Waaree Energies. Meyer Burger and REC Silicon also face challenges in Europe and US.
Feb 9, 2024 // Manufacturing News, USA, meyer burger, wafer, North America, REC Silicon, CubicPV
General Electric, Shell seeking departures as energy transition accelerates
The two power titans have actually revealed strategies to pivot away from nonrenewable fuel source properties as they expand their sustainable footprints.
Sep 23, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, General Electric, Shell
Bill Gates, Chris Sacca Invest in tech for Net Zero Emissions in Heavy Industries
The California based start-up want to decarbonize industrial procedures by employing baron based thermal batteries that save warmth from solar and wind resources of energy and also use a choice to the natural gas boilers employed by hefty markets.
Antora Energy revealed that it has increased $50 million in a financing round.
Mar 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, clean energy, shell, Bill Gates, Renewable Energy, wind power, Andrew Ponec, Antora Energy, carbon blocks, David Bierman, heavy industries, Justin Briggs, thermal batteries
Adjusting solar power innovation to discover chemical war agents and also pesticides
In a vibrant service to an unsafe trouble, Australian researchers are adapting a component from advanced solar cells to make a rapid, light-based detection system for lethal toxins.
Mar 4, 2021 // Technology, Australia, solar cells, Oceania, CSIRO, Wenping Yin of Monash University, Perovskite nanocrystals
Chemists develop unique electrolyser for hydrogen manufacturing
In a current Nature Communications paper, a team of scientists led by Dr. Ning Yan of the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam showcases a functional membrane-free approach to water electrolysis making use of earth-abundant catalysts.
Jul 20, 2021 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, hydrogen, Ning Yan, University of Amsterdam
New Material Pushes Sodium-Ion Batteries To Phase Out Costly Lithium
It's utilized in the battery cathode to supply record-high energy storage space capacity, eliminating among the bottlenecks of the arising sodium-ion modern technology.
According to the scientists, once again research into efficient materials for sodium-ion batteries is conducted, they may well supersede lithium-ion ones.
Aug 5, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, battery technology, sodium ion, battery cathode, Semyon Shraer, Skoltech and Lomonosov Moscow State University, sodium ion batteries, Stanislav Fedotov
Lithium-ion storage is right here to remain
A German-Israeli study team has actually collected for 3 days to review which storage innovations might surpass lithium-ion batteries in the future. They ended that there is no something as a "message Li‐ion" period visible. They suggested a "side‐by‐side" technique for several innovations in various applications, along with the hybridization of modern technologies. The team highlighted the solid capacity of redox circulation storage, which in their sight might outmatch Li‐ion, although just for fixed applications.
May 8, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, lithium-ion, redox flow storage
New Catalytic Process Turns Renewable and also Waste Carbon right into Cleaner, High-Performance Diesel Biofuel Blendstock
A new single-phase stimulant that makes it possible for the conversion of sustainable and waste carbon into lasting diesel fuels has actually been established through a special cooperation in between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) consortia, Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy (ChemCatBio) and the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) effort.
Jul 17, 2020 // Market Research, USA, NREL, carbon, North America, Derek Vardon, diesel fuels
Scientist establish new perovskite-based approach for blue quantum dots synthesis and analysis
Scientists from The University of Tokyo as well as Yamagata University have attended to the trouble in producing blue quantum dots by developing a unique self-organizing strategy for producing lead bromide perovskite quantum dots. The research study additionally integrates advanced imaging innovation to characterize these novel blue quantum dots.
Nov 25, 2022 // Technology, perovskite, The University of Tokyo an, Yamagata University





