An R&D team at Fraunhofer ISE has unveiled a new solar cell stringing machine that can boost cell performance 2% by using electrically conductive …
APS ramps up battery storage efforts for its solar portfolio
Battery storage enables utilities such as APS to store solar-produced power for future use, including the late afternoon and early evening period, when …
Competitiveness Can Drive Renewable Energy Sector
Mohammad Sadeqzadeh, head of the Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (Satba), made the statement on the sidelines of the inauguration of 11th …
Speaker DeLeo proposes $1B for energy efficiency grants
The initiative — called GreenWorks — would include funding for renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change resiliency efforts.
City pledges 100 percent renewable energy by 2050
In the next 16 years, the city hopes to run its buildings, fleet vehicles and public buses off electric energy as part of its goal of moving the entire …
Georgetown’s environmentally unfriendly solar project
18 Metro article “Environmentalists oppose Georgetown’s green-energy … instead of exporting the negative environmental impacts of the solar-farm …
Alberta energy plant remains suspended, worker still in hospital following explosion
A worker remains in hospital and operations at a renewable energy plant are still suspended nearly two weeks after an explosion and fire at the facility …
Public hearing nears for massive Spotsylvania solar farm proposal
Already a major player in the booming solar industry, sPower wants to build a $615-million facility with 1.8 million solar panels planted on three swaths …
First the moon, now China plans to launch space-based solar power satellite
Space-based solar power satellites were first proposed by Peter Glaser in the late 1960s. The satellites would be deployed in orbit and would collect …
Next money ‘crop’ for farmers? Solar panels.
ORION, Ill. — Randy DeBaillie pointed to the power meter on his snow-covered farm: Even on a foggy, monochromatic day, with the sun barely …