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Shining Bright: India's Largest Floating Solar energy Plant
India is making a fast-paced transition in the direction of renewable resource. With bountiful sunshine throughout the year in many parts of the nation, it is no surprise that utilizing the full potential of solar power is the cornerstone of India's RE push.
May 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, India, Asia
A photo-rechargeable lead-free perovskite lithium-ion battery that generates and stores energy
A team of scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has created a cost-effective, light-weight, and safe (lead-free) photo-battery that has dual features in collecting solar power and keeping energy on a single gadget, making it possible to charge a battery imaginable, without having to connect the device into the wall surface.
Aug 20, 2021 // Technology, Storage, China, Asia, lithium-ion battery, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST, Jonathan Eugene HALPERT
Egypt Ready To Catch Up On Solar Growth In Coming Years
A late adopter, Egypt has a great deal of catching up to do, considering it has several of the very best websites for solar worldwide. Progress in Egypt will additionally augur well for Africa itself, as understanding and also gains are moved a lot more widely.
Sep 8, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Asia, Africa, Egypt, Wind Energy, benban project
DSM and also Lightyear sign up with pressures to scale up incorporated solar roofings for electrical cars
Modern flexibility trendsetter Lightyear and also Royal DSM, a worldwide science-based business in Nutrition, Health as well as Sustainable Living, have actually authorized a contract to collectively scale the commercialization of Lightyear's one-of-a-kind solar-powered roofing for the electrical lorry market. With this service, both firms intend to increase the worldwide fostering of a wide series of Electric Vehicles (EVs).
May 15, 2020 // Transport, Europe, Netherlands, electric vehicles, royal dsm, Lightyear, Pascal de Sain, Martijn Lammers
Solar Cell Reaches Record-Setting Energy-Conversion Efficiency
A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory established the six-junction cell, which is thinner than a human hair.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, NREL, solar cell, efficiency, John Geisz
Canadian Solar Approved for 250-MW NSW Solar Project
Canadian Solar's ambitious 250-MW solar park in NSW will power 92,000 homes and boost local revenue, showcasing a sustainable future for energy and community growth.
Nov 11, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canadian Solar, Solar Project
PowerField Wraps 170 MWp, Outsmarts Dutch Grid Bottlenecks
PowerField energizes 170‑MWp bifacial solar fleet on congested Dutch grid—battery‑ready, grid‑compliant, O&M‑optimized—shifting power to evening peaks and unlocking PPA, merchant and ancillary services revenue.
Nov 26, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Netherlands, powerfield
Roof solar cells can be a boon for water conservation too
Electricity-generating roof solar cells not just minimize planet-warming carbon emissions, they likewise save a substantial amount of water, say a pair of Duke University researchers that have done the math.
Sep 22, 2022 // Technology, USA, North America, Duke University, Roof solar cells, Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal
Record-breaking solar perovskites
Perovskite solar cells modern technologies have the prospective to enhance performance and also reduced the price of solar power, yet substantial expense and also integrity problems continue to be. Yoana Cholteeva considers what makes solar perovskites so encouraging.
May 21, 2020 // Technology, USA, UK, China, solar cells, Europe, Asia, perovskite, North America, efficiency
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Ada, an AI-driven robot, searches for new solar cell designs at the University of British Columbia.
Dec 12, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Canada, UK, Europe, solar cell, North America, University of British Columbia, Curtis Berlinguette, Benji Maruyama, Apurva Mehta, Kristin Persson, Keith Brown, Joshua Schrier, John Gregoire
The Hydrogen Stream: Hydrogen refueling stations for automobile market
Canada's First Hydrogen and German consulting firm FEV are establishing a hydrogen fueling station for remote places where there are no electric power grids readily available. Additionally, Japan and Indonesia have actually begun to cooperate on hydrogen and carbon capture innovations and the UK gas grid is set to begin blending hydrogen around the nation from following year.
Jan 17, 2022 // Technology, Transport, Solar to Fuel, Japan, Canada, Germany, UK, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, North America, Thyssenkrupp, Snam, FEV
Crystal structure found practically 200 years earlier might hold crucial to solar cell transformation
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific limelight on materials with a crystal framework found nearly two centuries earlier.
Jul 2, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, perovskites, John Labram, Gustav Rose, Tsutomu Miyasaka
Perovskite absorbers enable solar-powered system that converts plastic as well as greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have actually developed a system that can change plastic waste and also greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and various other valuable products-- utilizing power from the Sun. The team mentions that this is the first time that a system that can convert two waste streams into 2 chemical products at the same time has actually been achieved in a solar-powered reactor.
Jan 11, 2023 // Technology, perovskite, University of Cambridge, Erwin Reisner, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Motiar Rahaman
Retrofitting facades and also solar panels easily with ultra-thin glass
Cleaning glass facades and solar installments is costly as well as time-consuming. Dirt lowers the yield of solar modules. Nevertheless, the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam as well as Plasma Technology (FEP) has actually currently been successful in applying crystalline titanium oxide to ultra-thin glass using a roll-to-roll procedure, thus achieving hydrophobic surfaces that come to be superhydrophilic under UV light.
Jan 26, 2023 // Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology, FEP
Just how solar farms can function as havens for Australia's wildlife
Australia's renewable energy change has actually prompted the building and construction of dozens of large-scale solar farms. The boom helps reduce Australia's reliance on fossil fuels, however requires large areas of land to be converted to host solar infrastructure.
Feb 3, 2023 // Technology, Australia, Oceania