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HOBO LEED Monitoring Kits Designed to Help Improve Building Energy Performance

New HOBO LEED Monitoring Kits help improve building energy performance, generate LEED credits

17 Sep 2008

Screen Printed Solar Cells Reach Record Efficiency Levels

Suniva a manufacturer of high value crystalline silicon solar cells, today announced that its R&D team has developed several silicon solar cells in its lab with over 20 percent conversion efficiencies

17 Sep 2008

Graphene Form of Carbon Promises to Revolutionise Storage of Renewable Electrical Energy

Engineers and scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the use of "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices, perhaps paving the way for the massive installation of renewable energies such as wind and solar power

17 Sep 2008

BioSolar Has Proven That Petroleum Products are Not Necessary to Produce Renewable Energy

BioSolar continues to garner media coverage following last month’s announcement that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company’s proprietary BioBacksheet, a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar modules

15 Sep 2008

New Wafer Cutting Method Slices Solar Power Costs

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor

15 Sep 2008

University of Bath Researchers Help Develop New Battery Technology For Electric and Hybrid Cars

Researchers at the University of Bath are helping to develop new rechargeable batteries that could improve hybrid electric cars in the future

15 Sep 2008

Alvarez Construction to Build Energy Efficient and Disaster Resistant SHIP Homes

Alternative Construction Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive supplier agreement with Alvarez Construction Group

15 Sep 2008

Green Building Council Grant to Examine The Effect of Lighting on Learning of School Students

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has earned the notable distinction of receiving one of only 13 first-ever research grants awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The $250,000 grant will fund research for a project titled “Quantifying the Impact of Daylight and Electric Lighting on Student Alertness, Performance, and Well-being in K-12 Schools.”

15 Sep 2008

Space Based Solar Power Solutions for Earth Successfully Demonstrated

Space solar power could be a clean, renewable solution to
America's long-term energy needs

15 Sep 2008

Solar Mirrors for Renewable Energy Industry Improved by Arch Aluminum and Glass

Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry

11 Sep 2008