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Lithium metal enabler for low temperature batteries
Scientists in the United States showed a new course to enhancing battery efficiency. The group integrated a self-assembling layer which bases on the surface of the anode, avoiding the development of dendrites. While their prototype has an extremely brief lifetime, the team is convinced method might bring about better carrying out batteries, and also is specifically encouraging for reduced temperature level applications.
Aug 31, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, Lithium metal, Donghai Wang
Ganfeng Lithium influenced by coronavirus however share cost goes on climbing
The board of the lithium miner and also refiner has actually disclosed exactly how the episode has actually struck its Chinese manufacturing after keeping in mind 'uncommon' share cost gains today.
Feb 13, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, China, Asia, Ganfeng Lithium
Doped carbon for a dependable lithium sulfur battery
Researchers in South Korea established a porous carbon material that, when applied as a coating to the separator film in a lithium-sulfur battery, was shown to decrease an undesirable negative effects and enhance the battery's performance as well as dependability. The coating is based on methylene blue, a kind of salt frequently made use of in textile passing away.
Feb 8, 2022 // Technology, Storage, South Korea, Asia, lithium-sulfur batteries, Pusan National University, Seung Geol Lee
A closer check out graphene electrodes
Scientists in the United States have found several imperfections in the strategies frequently utilized by researchers to design the structure of electrodes. The group outlines a new method which it says can bring about the exploration of new products and combinations that can lead to batteries performing much better for longer.
Jun 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Graphene, Haleh Ardebili
CATL’s €2 Billion German Factory Tests China’s High-Stakes Go-Global Strategy
CATL’s new battery plant in Arnstadt shows China’s invest-abroad playbook: jobs for Europe, supply security for automakers—and fresh challenges from tariffs to culture clashes.
May 21, 2025 // Storage, Germany, Europe, CATL
NREL Research Details to Approaches for Recycling of Solar Panels
Scientists at NREL have conducted the first worldwide evaluation into the most appealing techniques to end-of-life monitoring for solar PV panels.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, NREL, Solar Panels, recycling, International, NREL Solar Panels, Garvin Heath, Timothy Silverman, Michael Kempe, Michael Deceglie, Teresa Barnes
Split solar cell innovation increases effectiveness, price
The future's obtaining better for solar energy. Scientists from CU Boulder have actually produced an affordable solar cell with among the highest possible power-conversion effectiveness to day, by layering cells and also making use of an one-of-a-kind mix of components.
Mar 10, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, efficiency, CU Boulder, Michael McGehee
French federal government thinks about cutting pre-2011 FITs
Financial paper Les Echos declares the government is mulling a renegotiation of historical feed-in contracts after the Court of Auditors in 2018 ruled the motivations also charitable.
Sep 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, France, Europe, Xavier Daval, Les Echos, Arnaud Gossement, KilowattSol
Engineers locate anti-oxidants improve nanoscale visualization of polymers
Reactive particles, such as totally free radicals, can be generated in the body after direct exposure to certain atmospheres or materials and also go on to trigger cell damages. Anti-oxidants can lessen this damage by connecting with the radicals prior to they affect cells.
Jan 8, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, Enrique Gomez
Italy's Ecology Minister: 72% power to come from Renewables in 2030
Italy's Ecology Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani disclosed the other day that the nation will need to produce as much as 72% of its electrical power with sustainable sources in 2030 so as to satisfy the European emissions-reduction target of 55% collection for the very same year.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Italy, Europe, Roberto Cingolani, Ivan Novelli
Plastic solar cells integrate high-speed optical communication with indoor energy harvesting
Around the world there are currently more than 18 billion internet-connected smart phones. In the following 10 years, prepared for development in the Internet of Things (IoT) and in machine-type interaction as a whole, will certainly cause a world of thousands of billions of data-connected things.
Mar 3, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, Harald Haas, University of Strathclyde, University of St Andrews
A mathematical technique for choosing the very best PV technology in hot, dry locations
The proposed model is said to carry out much better at energy prediction than software application tools such as PVWatts, PVSyst or RetScreen. The approach was verified on 2 5 MW PV plants in the very same district of the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Feb 3, 2020 // Technology, Software, India, PV plant, Asia, PVWatts, PVSyst, RetScreen
Scientists check out the role of surface area texturing in perovskite-silicon tandem cells
Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.
Mar 6, 2023 // Technology, Germany, Europe, perovskite, silicon, HZB, solar sells, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
South Africa unveils solar FiT and licensing exemptions in feedback to energy crisis
South Africa's federal government has actually introduced a raft of measures to boost the release of renewables in the nation as it replies to a growing energy crisis.
Jul 27, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, eskom, South Africa, rooftop solar, embedded generation, REIPPPP, feed in tarrifs, grid constraints
NREL advances thermochromic home window modern technologies with vivid Perovskites
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report an advancement in creating a next-generation thermochromic window that not just decreases the demand for cooling but concurrently generates electrical energy.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, NREL, perovskites, Bryan Rosales










