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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

Lockheed Martin, CoGen Team Up to Pursue Additional Bioenergy Projects in the U.K.

Lockheed Martin has signed a teaming agreement with CoGen Limited to develop energy-from-waste projects in the United Kingdom, starting with a new plant in Cardiff, Wales.

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

TAU Researchers Discover Algae can Yield Mass Quantities of Hydrogen

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that algae can yield mass quantities of hydrogen, which is considered the world's cleanest energy source.

7 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

Researchers Urge International Effort to Set Global Priorities for Developing Renewable Energy

A comment published in this week's science Journal Nature, an international team of scientists from nine nations demand a grand challenges strategy to set priorities on a global level for developing renewable energy.

6 Oct 2016

Progresses in Solar Cell Technology to Enable Large-Scale Production

The importance of renewable energy sources is gaining more attention than ever since the environmental cost of conventional energy sources began to rise and the supply of fossil fuels became a finite resource.

6 Oct 2016

Roundtable Discussion Focuses on Geothermal Energy Potential for Electricity Generation

A roundtable discussion scheduled for October 17th 2016 will focus in depth on the potential of geothermal energy at a time when Cornell University is planning to consider a groundbreaking project of its own.

6 Oct 2016

Unmanned Aerial Systems Successfully Measure Atmospheric Turbulence Above Indian Ocean

It is widely known that black carbon, or soot, aerosol particles emitted from South Asia are spread across the northern Indian Ocean during the winter monsoon season.

5 Oct 2016

ETW Energietechnik Developed the SmartCycle PSA to Upgrade Biogas to RNG

80,000 hours on-stream time, more than 99 percent availability and purity Moers, 4th Oktober 2016: The Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology is recognized for decades as an effective and feasible process for gas upgrading in different large scale industrial applications.

5 Oct 2016

New Tool to Detect and Prevent Hate Speech Online

A browser plugin that detects and prevents hate speech on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has been selected as the winner of this year’s #peacehack, a competition designed to generate innovative and practical solutions to conflicts around the world.

5 Oct 2016

ABB, Aibel Partner to Deliver State-of-the-Art Offshore Wind Integration Solutions

ABB and Aibel today announced a strategic partnership to deliver state-of-the-art offshore wind integration solutions. ABB will focus on its proven high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, while Aibel will take turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) responsibility for the design, construction, installation and commissioning of the offshore platforms.

4 Oct 2016

Historical Ocean Water Levels May Underestimate Global Average Sea Level Rise

New research published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the longest and highest-quality records of historical ocean water levels may underestimate the amount of global average sea level rise that occurred during the 20th century.

4 Oct 2016

Bacteria and Archaea Could Help Monitor, Detect Potential Carbon Leaks

Bacteria and archaea could be used to monitor stored carbon dioxide (CO2) and convert it into useful products, such as ethanol and acetate, say researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and the University of Oslo.

4 Oct 2016