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MIT Researchers Find Way to Make Solar Cells More Efficient

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT

24 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology Experiments Leads to Low Cost Solar Cells That Make Themselves

Researchers has shown that the corkscrew like polymer gyroid structure can be used to self-assemble into a low-cost photovoltaic cell

24 Nov 2008

Western North Carolina to Get World's Largest Solar Thermal Project for Heating and Cooling

Acquisition is expected to put Western North Carolina on the map as the sustainability capital of the U.S., with new company's immediate focus to own and operate $14 million worth of solar installations in North Carolina

24 Nov 2008

Generating Energy from Slow Flowing Currents by Thinking Like a Fish

Low-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power

24 Nov 2008

Engineers Turn to Fusion For Clean Energy Solution

Engineers at UC San Diego's Center for Energy Research (CER) are working on some of the tough problems that stand in the way of efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly energy sources

24 Nov 2008

Carbon Footprint Being Reduced in Novel Ways by University of Delaware

College students notoriously shun early morning, evening and Friday classes, but what if a change in schedules reduced a university’s carbon footprint

23 Nov 2008

Students Return to a Greener UC San Diego

More than 28,500 students who came back to UC San Diego this year found a campus that is getting greener every day, as the university solidifies its position as a leader in sustainability among the nation’s higher education institutions

23 Nov 2008

Groundbreaking Energy Efficiency Project for DOE and TVA

Three houses under construction in East Tennessee carry the story of "The Three Little Pigs" to an entirely new level and will become a model for the nation when it comes to determining energy efficiency

23 Nov 2008

Innovative Solar Water Heaters to be Developed by GE Consumer and Electrical

GE Consumer and Industrial, the first U.S. company to meet newly established ENERGY STAR standards for residential water heaters, announced that they are developing a line of innovative solar water heaters that are designed to meet the 2009 Energy Star guidelines

23 Nov 2008

JA Solar and BP Alternative Energy to Tea Up on Solar Photovoltaics

JA Solar Holdings Co and BP Alternative Energy Holdings Limited, today announced their intention to jointly develop and market part of their solar photovoltaic product portfolio over the next five years

20 Nov 2008