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THE SUN BLANKETS the Earth with enough photons every hour to meet the entire world’s energy needs for a year. The question is how to efficiently convert them into electricity.

Generation Bridge LLC, an affiliate of power infrastructure financier ArcLight Capital Partners LLC, intends to replace an inactive oil tank farm in Oswego, New York, with an approximately 25-MW solar park.

Fikile Brushett, an MIT partner teacher of chemical design, had an unusual resource of motivation for his occupation in the chemical sciences: the character played by Nicolas Cage in the 1996 motion picture "The Rock." In the movie, Cage represents an FBI drug store that hunts down a group of rogue U.S. soldiers who have actually commandeered chemical weapons and also taken over the island of Alcatraz.

Africa-focused solar designer and also influence capitalist Empower New Energy announced today it has actually recently raised USD 74 million (EUR 71.3 m) in equity, which has permitted it to make new financial investments in Morocco as well as Nigeria.

Apple has revealed that it is investing in a major energy storage project in The golden state to pilot new services for sustainable infrastructure.

US-based independent solar and storage designer 8minute Solar power has worked with Rahul Mathur as its new principal financial officer (CFO) in an ongoing build out of its management group.

Castillo Engineering revealed today that the business has actually been chosen by Solar Generation to supply electric layout and engineering for a 75-MW portfolio of 11 community solar projects in New york city.

Solar developer CalCom Energy has put forward a new US$100 million fund to help build solar and energy storage projects to benefit farming communities in California.

As Facebook races to meet its objective of coming to be 100% powered by renewables by the end of this year, it has made an additional substantial financial investment in tidy power by signing contracts for 806 MW of brand-new solar and wind capability, with projects in Ireland and also the US states of Utah, Ohio, Illinois, and also Tennessee.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has stated it expects yearly solar PV additions worldwide to surpass 160GW by 2022, affirming the technology's placement as the "brand-new king" of worldwide electricity markets.

Dye-sensitised solar cells utilized in low-light conditions might carry out more continually thanks to enhanced understanding of the function additives play in optimising electrolytes.

Solar module producer Seraphim has started building and construction on brand-new phases of its 10GW module production facility in Jinzhai, China.

Vikram Solar has actually finished a new 1.3 GW solar module production center in Tamil Nadu, India, taking its total manufacturing output to 2.5 GW.

New Mexico's biggest energy plans to create 950MW of solar and storage by 2022 as it departures the state's San Juan coal plant as well as eyes 100% emissions-free electrical power by 2040.

Solar developers will have a chance this spring to compete at a new renewable auction in Greece, the latest in a country aiming to take installed PV capacity near the 8GW mark by 2030.