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US urged to drop India WTO case on solar
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
Environmentalists Wednesday urged the United States to drop plans to haul India to the WTO to open its solar market, saying the action would hurt the fight agai...
Pakistan plans huge desert solar park to fight energy crisis
Apr 20, 2014 (AFP)
For years Pakistanis have sweated and cursed through summer power cuts, but now the government plans to harness the sun's ferocious heat to help tackle the coun...
Obama launches measures to support solar energy in US
Apr 17, 2014 (AFP)
The White House Thursday announced a series of measures aimed at increasing solar energy production in the United States, particularly by encouraging the instal...
Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collabo...
Scientists open door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard-drives
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
Using DESY's bright research light sources, scientists have opened a new door to better solar cells, novel superconductors and smaller hard-drives. The research...
Better solar cells, better LED light and vast optical possibilities
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
Changes at the atom level in nanowires offer vast possibilities for improvement of solar cells and LED light. NTNU-researchers have discovered that by tuning a ...
Let the Sun Shine In: Redirecting Sunlight to Urban Alleyways
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
In dense, urban centers around the world, many people live and work in dim and narrow streets surrounded by tall buildings that block sunlight. And as the globa...
New 'tunable' semiconductors will allow better detectors, solar cells
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
One of the great problems in physics is the detection of electromagnetic radiation - that is, light - which lies outside the small range of wavelengths that the...
Microgrid Solar Completes Largest Single-Building Solar Installation on any Missouri School
Apr 14, 2014 (SPX)
Placing 386 solar panels on the science building at MICDS was no small feat for Microgrid Solar. This is the largest solar array installation on one building fo...
Clean Energy Collective and RGS Energy to Deploy First Community-Owned Solar Facilities in Massachusetts
Apr 14, 2014 (SPX)
The community solar developer, Clean Energy Collective (CEC), has selected RGS Energy as the general contractor for the construction of the first community-owne...
Stanford scientists model a win-win situation: growing crops on photovoltaic farms
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Growing agave and other carefully chosen plants amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms not only to collect sunlight for electricity but also to produc...
Sunlight generates hydrogen in new porous silicon
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Porous silicon manufactured in a bottom up procedure using solar energy can be used to generate hydrogen from water, according to a team of Penn State mechanica...
EU moves to rein in state support for renewable energy
Apr 09, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union announced Wednesday sweeping new guidelines to curtail state support for renewable energy production, while still allowing governments to shi...
Sun Gets to Work at the Long Beach Rescue Mission
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
The Port of Long Beach has awarded the Long Beach Rescue Mission, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of homeless children and adults, a $...
String Inverters Increasingly Used in Megawatt-Scale PV Projects
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
In a sign of their growing acceptance, string inverters are increasingly being considered in megawatt (MW)-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, with over 40 percent...
Organic Solar Cells More Efficient With Molecules Face-to-Face
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
New research from North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill reveals that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, three-dimensional o...
Renewable energy market share climbs despite 2013 dip in investments
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
Renewable energy's share of world electricity generation continued its steady climb last year despite a 14 per cent drop in investments to US$214.4 billion, acc...
Tiny crystals to boost solar
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
A new approach to studying solar panel absorber materials has been developed by researchers in France, [Lafond et al. (2014). Acta Cryst. (2014). B70, 390-394]....
Energy breakthrough uses sun to create solar energy materials
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
In a recent advance in solar energy, researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar ener...
Japan posts top growth in clean energy: survey
Apr 03, 2014 (AFP)
Japan last year stepped up spending on clean energy at a faster rate than any other country, despite a drop in the world's overall investment, a study said Thur...
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