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Argonne National Lab and Turkey Team Up on Green Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

12 Jul 2009

Applied Materials Shows Strategy For Making Solar Power Affordable for Everyone, Everywhere

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, will showcase its strategy to make solar power affordable for everyone, everywhere, at the Intersolar North America event in San Francisco next week

12 Jul 2009

Suncatcher Solar Power Dishes Unveiled at Sandia

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

12 Jul 2009

Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009

Clean Fuels in Ships Could Reduce Polluting Emissions and Save 40000 Lives Each Year

Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012. A new study says that government action to reduce sulfur emissions from shipping fuel could reduce that toll

8 Jul 2009

Revealing the Genome of Sugarcane Could Bring a Revolution in Environmentally Friendly Energy

Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy's holy grails – harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane

8 Jul 2009

Òne Million Jobs Could Be Created In The US By Switching to Clean Energy

One million more jobs would be created in renewables in G8 countries by 2020 if the leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed to switch from coal and other climate-destroying conventional energy sources to renewables in order to help slash carbon emissions and avert a climate catastrophe

7 Jul 2009

CIGS Solar Panels Cheaper and Use Less Raw Materials Than Traditional Solar Panels

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials

7 Jul 2009