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Solar Industry Pros Get Quick Solar Power Readings with New Extech Pocket-Sized Meter

Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)

The SP505 is an affordable, go-anywhere solar power meter (or handheld pyranometer) that is always within reach whether working on a roof, on a ladder, or in a ...

Materials scientists of Lomonosov MSU proposed a novel approach for obtaining films for solar cells

Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department Materials Science explained the key mechanisms of interaction of hybrid perovskites with solvent...

NUST MISIS scientists present metamaterial for solar cells and nanooptics

Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)

Anapole is a non-emitting diffuser transparent to electromagnetic radiation. In 2017, a research team from the Laboratory of Superconducting Metamaterials and t...

States boost renewable energy and development when utilities adopt renewable standards

Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)

IU's Sanya Carley led a team of researchers including Nikolaos Zirogiannis, an assistant scientist at IU, and law professors Lincoln Davies of the University of...

Solar thermal energy will help China cut costs of climate action

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

By contrast, more expensive Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), which can store its solar energy relatively inexpensively, and for long durations, can deliver power...

Canadian energy company says renewables key to emissions goal

Jul 20, 2018 (UPI)

"Suncor has an ambitious greenhouse gas emissions goal to reduce carbon intensity by 30 percent by 2030, and investment in renewable energy is part of the solut...

NYSERDA announces completion of largest solar installation in New York City

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

"This solar installation project on Staten Island, the largest in New York City, will provide clean energy and help protect the environment," said Lieutenant Go...

Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

Organic solar cells, made from carbon-based materials, present unique advantages compared with other solar cell technologies. For example, they can be manufactu...

Denver takes big step on renewables

Jul 18, 2018 (UPI)

In his annual State of the City address from earlier this week, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said he would move to abate the risks from climate change with stro...

How gold nanoparticles could improve solar energy storage

Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)

"Instead of using ultraviolet light, which is the standard practice, we leveraged the energy of visible and infrared light to excite electrons in gold nanoparti...

Latin America's largest solar park turns Mexican desert green

Jul 13, 2018 (AFP)

This silent stretch of sand in the state of Coahuila is the spot the Italian energy giant Enel picked to build the Villanueva power plant: 2.3 million solar pan...

Longer contracts leverage the free fuel in solar power at little OM costs

Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)

Energy developers always look to find ways to structure deals to reduce their costs. A key task in developing utility-scale renewable energy projects is finding...

Bacteria-powered solar cell converts light to energy, even under overcast skies

Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)

Their cell generated a current stronger than any previously recorded from such a device, and worked as efficiently in dim light as in bright light. This innovat...

Material could help windows both power your home and control its temperature

Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers in China have gone a step further and combined these two functions into one window-compatible material that could double the energy efficiency of an...

New world record for direct solar water-splitting efficiency

Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)

Photovoltaics are a mainstay of renewable-energy supply systems, and sunlight is abundantly available worldwide but not around the clock. One solution for deali...

High performance nitride semiconductor for environmentally friendly photovoltaics

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

These n-type and p-type copper nitride semiconductors could potentially replace the conventional toxic or rare materials in photovoltaic cells. Thin film photov...

Shedding light on the energy-efficiency of photosynthesis

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, suggests that photorespiration wastes little energy and instead enhances nitrate assimila...

Surrey makes breakthrough in perovskite solar cell technology

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

Perovskite based cells are widely viewed as the next generation of solar cells, offering similar power conversion efficiency (PCE) performance, but at a much lo...

Sunvapor receives DoE contract to develop Solar Steam on Demand

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

This project, "Solar Steam on Demand" will enable for the first time a continuous operation of distillation equipment at a levelized cost of heat of 1.5 cents /...

Wartsila introduces new hybrid solar PV and storage solution

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

Hybrid Solar will allow utilities to transform the efficiency and reliability of their systems with an adaptable solar PV power plant that can support its basel...