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An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Batteries made from an electrically conductive combination the consistency of molasses might help fix a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle.
Dec 1, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Emre Gençer
Gigawatts of solar as well as storage space: Inside Duke Energy Progression' renewables-heavy IRP
Earlier this week Duke Energy Progress (DEP) introduced its 2020 Integrated Resource Plan, describing the possible source portfolios for both DEP and Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) over the course of the next 15 years.
Sep 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Duke Energy, North America, irp, us utility
Massachusetts takes SMART program to 3.6 GW, includes power storage space regulation
The United States state of Massachusetts has actually released an emergency situation law to its Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program, that consists of increasing the PV capability it looks for to aid release along with mandating the enhancement of power storage space on projects over 500kW.
Apr 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Massachusetts, SMART, policy and regulation, solar-plus-storage, North America, co-location, covid-19, government incentives, support schemes, renewable portfolio standards
A new regime for examining residential or commercial properties of topological materials
2 recent researches demonstrate that there is a topological origin of two associated metal alloys' ability to transform light into electrical present. New basic research study on rhodium monosilicide (RhSi), released in NPJ Quantum Materials, and also on cobalt monosilicide (CoSi), released in Nature Communications, might give a brand-new technique for developing devices such as photo detectors as well as solar cells.
Jan 16, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, Liang Wu, Joe Qiu, Zhuoliang Ni, Charlie Kane, Eugene Mele
Australia's steel masters engineer 2 energy-storage breakthroughs
Energy storage space remains in high demand, to aid take care of an expanding proportion of renewable resource in worldwide electrical energy grids, to complimentary off-grid neighborhoods from the tyranny of diesel, and to make it possible for the aspirations of individuals not yet attached to a power supply. These 2 promising modern technologies have reached essential milestones ...
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Guoxiu Wang, Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou, Alan Yu
UK to relax planning laws as new energy strategy lays out hope of five-fold boost in PV capacity by 2035
The UK government has committed to a significant ramp-up of solar capacity in the nation as part of a brand-new energy strategy.
Apr 8, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe
Air Force honors UToledo $12.5 million to establish space-based solar power sheets
The military is intensifying to the momentum of physicists at The University of Toledo who are progressing brand-new frontiers in thin-film, extremely efficient, affordable photovoltaic innovation to make sure a clean energy future.
Feb 17, 2021 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, USA, air force, North America, Michael Heben, UToledo, sheets, Randall Ellingson, Marcy Kaptur, Frank Calzonetti
Northern European states mark clean policy milestones
Northern Europe’s clean energy scene has witnessed a flurry of policy moves in the space of a week, with at least four countries making announcements on various auctions and subsidy schemes.
Oct 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Germany, Europe, auction, Switzerland, Netherlands, subsidies, Denmark, tenders
Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from "dry" air
Scientists at MIT and somewhere else have significantly boosted the result from a system that can remove drinkable water straight from the air even in dry regions, using warmth from the sun or another source.
Oct 15, 2020 // Technology, Asia, Korea, MIT, Evelyn Wang, Guihua Yu
Solar energy ranches can offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
As electrical vehicles swiftly grow in popularity worldwide, there will certainly soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no more sufficient for vehicles that need reliable velocity and array. But a new research shows that these batteries could still have a beneficial and also rewarding second life as backup storage space for grid-scale solar photovoltaic or pv setups, where they might carry out for greater than a decade in this much less requiring function.
May 27, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, MIT, North America, EV batteries, Ian Mathews, Tonio Buonassisi
NREL Scientist Use Silica Sand to Store Renewable Power
NREL choices a modular, economical, build-anywhere particle thermal energy storage technology
Energy storage space in sand offers affordable path for trusted electrical power and warm supply in renewable energy era
Sep 8, 2021 // Technology, Storage, NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, biden administration, renewable energy sources, The ENDURING Mechanism, Zhiwen Ma
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
Puncturing Sound to Enhance Solar Cell Effectiveness
As culture relocations in the direction of a renewable energy future, it's vital that solar panels transform light into electrical energy as successfully as feasible. Some advanced solar cells are close to the academic optimum of performance-- and physicists from the University of Utah and also Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have identified a method to make them also much better.
Jul 12, 2021 // Technology, solar cell, efficiency, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Klaus Lips, University Of Utah, Kevin Davenport, Andrey Rogachev, HSCs
Sunfolding seeks to disrupt the tracker sector with air pneumatics
With $32 million in collection B financing as well as an ever-growing project pipe, air-based tracker start-up, Sunfolding, is hoping to raise its keep in the tracker market with tech that's straightforward, light as well as can be set up on terrain previously believed untouchable.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, USA, North America, startup, Sunfolding, Gwen Rose
Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes
Two groups of solar researchers have actually established an unique solar activator and also thermochemical procedure for making solar hydrogen that can produce on top of that carbon black and also graphite along with carbon nanotubes. Persuading a six-year duration, the teams first created the details solar reactor, and then ultimately, the thermochemistry for the (license pending) unique methane splitting solar hydrogen procedure.
Jun 2, 2020 // Solar to Fuel, Japan, France, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, Hiroyuki Kimura, Satoshi Seo, Stéphane Abanades














