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High-Efficiency Solar Cells Turn Water into Chemical Storing 30% Energy for Long Periods

Solar energy is capable of providing abundant power only if two major issues are solved by scientists. These issues include making the technology more cost effective, and storing the energy for use at all hours.

1 Nov 2016

Invisible Solar Panel Roof Tiles to Power Your Home

Tesla and SolarCity have recently developed a new solar roof that can be integrated within glass roof tiles.

31 Oct 2016

Three Local Organizations Partner to Demonstrate Climate-Change Mitigation Efforts to Other Organizations

MIT, Boston Medical Center, and Post Office Square Redevelopment Corporation have formed an alliance to buy electricity from a large new solar power installation, adding carbon-free energy to the grid and demonstrating a partnership model for other organizations in climate-change mitigation efforts.

20 Oct 2016

Chemists Build High-Functioning Electrode Material with Promising Characteristics in Dual-Ion Batteries

Oregon State University chemists have identified that one or more organic compounds that belongs to a family of pollutants can potentially contribute to an important advancement in manufacturing cost-effective and reliable batteries.

19 Oct 2016

New Financing Mechanism Makes Residential Energy Improvements More Accessible to Homeowners

Boynton Beach and Lake Clarke Shores have become the first municipalities in Palm Beach County to make the HERO Program available to local residents.

14 Oct 2016

Iowa’s Largest Utility-Scale Solar Power Generation Project Installed with Solar FlexRack Racking Solution

Solar FlexRack™, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and tracking solutions, announced today the largest utility-scale solar power generation project in Iowa, a 2.3MW plant (the largest of the series which will include 5 systems and total 5.5MW) is installed with the smartest racking solution available, the best-in-class G3 Fixed Tilt system.

12 Oct 2016

RNRG Delivers SRA System to Reduce Solar Resource Uncertainty at Panama Project

Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the supply of solar resource assessment (SRA) system to Ventus Ingeniería to reduce solar irradiance uncertainty at a project in Panama.

11 Oct 2016

New Organic Solar Cells have Extremely Low Driving Force and Faster Charge Separation

Organic solar cells with faster charge separation and extensively lower driving force than earlier cells have been developed by Linköping University researchers in collaboration with Chinese and American colleagues. The results have been featured in Nature Energy.

7 Oct 2016

Alta Energy Announces Deployment of Solar Energy Systems at Merrill Farms

Alta Energy, a renewable energy solutions provider, today announced the deployment of solar energy for Merrill Farms, a fourth-generation Salinas, California vegetable and berry grower.

7 Oct 2016

New Alternative Solar Energy Technology Results in Low-Cost Clean Energy Generation

Significant progress in generating electricity by blending thermoelectric materials and concentrating solar power has been reported by the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

3 Oct 2016