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Hybrid Perovskite Field-Effect Transistors Successfully Fabricated for Clean Energy Applications

Researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Utah are the first to successfully fabricate halide organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite field-effect transistors and measure their electrical characteristics at room temperature.

7 May 2015

13th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference to be Hosted by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

The 13th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT) is awarded to Switzerland and will be hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne in November 2016.

27 Apr 2015

Casa dos Ventos Places $30 Million Power Infrastructure Order for Wind Farms with ABB

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth around $30 million from Casa dos Ventos, a leading renewables company in Brazil, to provide substations and related power infrastructure enabling the efficient integration of power from two new wind complexes (comprising 13 wind farms) into the country’s transmission grid. The orders were booked in the first quarter of 2015.

25 Apr 2015

Several Countries in the Race to Exploit Gas Hydrates

Gas hydrate is also known as the ice that burns. And all that burns releases energy. And a lot of energy is stored in hydrates: a cubic meter of methane hydrate, for example, compresess as much as 168 m3 of the natural gas. And there are gigatonnes of it stored in the sediments of the oceans.

24 Apr 2015

GE Energy Financial Services and GPI Partner to Invest in 42MW DC PV Solar Power Project in Futtsu City

GE Unit, GE Energy Financial Services has formed a new partnership with Tokyo-based renewable energy project developer, Green Power Investment Corp., to invest in a 42-megawatt (DC) photovoltaic solar power project in Futtsu City, Japan. GE Energy Financial Services will invest alongside GPI in the project.

23 Apr 2015

Portland General Electric to Supply Wind-Generated Electricity to Linde’s Facility in Oregon

Linde North America, Inc., signed a contract with Portland General Electric to supply sustainable, wind-generated power for a significant portion of its electric requirements to its Hillsboro, Oregon, air separation unit which makes ultra-high purity gaseous nitrogen and oxygen.

22 Apr 2015

Pacifica Senior Living Selects Cenergy Power for Meridian Solar Project

Pacifica Senior Living (Pacifica), a division of Pacifica Companies, announced last week that it has selected Cenergy Power (Cenergy) to install its rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system at the Meridian at Lake San Marcos (Meridian), a northern San Diego based senior community. The project is expected to significantly lower the annual utility expenses of the senior community currently accommodating approximately 250 apartment homes and a 22,000 sq. ft. clubhouse.

22 Apr 2015

Inexpensive, Environmentally Beneficial Solar Cooling System to Maintain Food

Maintaining food in places where high temperatures prevail, using little energy at a low cost, it is now possible with Mexican technology, thanks to the creation of a solar cooling system designed by Susana Elvia Toledo Flores.

6 Apr 2015

University of Virginia Forms Partnership with MAXNET Energy

The University of Virginia has formed a partnership with MAXNET Energy, a new initiative of Germany’s Max Planck Society to advance research on new, renewable, environmentally friendly and economical energy sources.

11 Mar 2015

Standard Solar Announces 3.6MW Solar Project for Town of Stafford, Connecticut

Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems, today announced it will design and install a 3.6 Megawatt (MW) solar system for the Town of Stafford, Conn.

11 Mar 2015