Tag: solar energy

In many the vast steppes of Mongolia, some things have remained unchanged for centuries. But some things have changed, and big ...

On an explosive growth trajectory, the total operational solar photovoltaic capacity in the US just passed the 20 GW milestone ...

An innovative concentrated solar power design called the "Solar Sunflower" was recently demonstrated by Swiss researchers at Airlight Energy and ...

India is one of the most polluted countries in the world, but for what it's worth local authorities acknowledge this ...

The Department of the Navy (DON) announced it will make the largest investment in renewable energy by an federal entity. ...

In only 15 years, renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro) could surpass fossil fuels as the main provider of energy. According ...

Rooftop solar is now cheaper than grid electricity for 30 million people living in 6 cities, a new report writes ...

University of Michigan researchers have devised what looks like the world's first fully transparent solar cell. Think of all of ...

The UK boasts 650,000 solar installations across homes, offices, schools, churches, warehouses, farms, police stations, train stations and even a ...

As global oil prices continue to drastically fluctuate up and down over the years, the Kingdom of Jordan has announced ...

The most efficient solar cells are those that convert incoming concentrated solar power via lenses, the sort you see on ...

Amazingly, 19 percent of all Australian households have solar panels or solar water heaters installed, according to  the Australian Bureau ...

Australian solar researchers have converted over 40 percent of solar light's energy into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported by ...

Solar cell technology has improved dramatically over the past couple of year, yet it will be a long time before ...

We keep hearing more about developments made in the photovoltaic field, but we have to keep in mind that this ...

Germany has taken a pioneering role in terms of renewable energy, in Europa and even worldwide. Many countries are now ...

Researchers at MIT report they've developed a novel material that can absorb almost all incoming wavelengths of light and convert ...

The UK's first floating solar farm has been unveiled in Berkshire; the array features 800 photovoltaic panels and has a capacity ...

For billions of years, nature has been harnessing the energy from the sun through photosynthesis. This way, plants, algae and ...

Even though coal is still Germany's number one energy source, renewable energy is developing incredibly fast, with wind and solar ...

Solar energy could play the most important role in Californian energy. Image via The Leaf Exchange. A new study conducted ...

Photo: greenbag.com Germany has reached a new renewable energy milestone recently after the country announced that on a given day ...

A typical multi junction solar cell. Photo: treehugger.ocm Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report they've devised a ...

The problem with many sources of clean energy is the limited conditions which they can use to produce energy - ...

Japanese authorities have approved the construction of a futuristic farming project in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, in a part of the ...

A British company has developed colored but transparent solar cells which add just 10% to the price of the glass ...

Two years ago, we were telling you about plans for developing the world's largest solar thermal energy plant in California ...

The  World Solar Challenge  is a biennial race from Darwin to Adelaide, spanning 3000km of the Australian outback. It attracts teams ...

A prototype of the leaf-inspired solar cell. Right corner: 1cm scale bar. As solar cells, and obviously the solar energy ...

It's no surprise that Germany is just giving lessons in terms of managing renewable energy sources - year after year, ...

Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, are gaining ground fast against fossil fuels in terms of energy production, but ...

For some years now, scientists have been exploring the use of quantum dots as the basis for a novel type ...

One of the biggest hurdles the solar energy industry currently faces is efficiently transforming the incoming energy from the sun's ...

The only thing that stands between Australia and a future led entirely by renewable energy is the political will to ...

While we all have to recognize the huge potential that solar energy brings us, we also have to say that ...

Solar Impulse, the now famous 100 percent solar-powered aircraft, made the headlines after it proved it could fly for 26 ...

The solar steam device developed at Rice University has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent, far surpassing that of ...

In a fantastic breakthrough in solar energy, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have ...

Tokelau is a small island near Samoa, not far from New Zealand; at a first glance, it wouldn't seem significantly ...

A recent study of gargantuan proportions estimated that the technical potential of photovoltaic cells and concentrated solar power (CSP) in ...

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According to a recently publicized rapport by the  Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), renewable energy sources could account for ...

Last week, the U.S. Air Force released a report in which it outlines its technological and energy plans for the ...

Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar ...

Space solar stations are not a new idea at all - they have been researched since the 1970; but as ...

Here's how renewable energy can be proliferated easily trough out the world, the developed one at least - scale it and ...

We've become so accustomed to the imagery of huge stacks of solar panel arrays stretching across the scorching desert, that ...

Japan shows us yet again that they are leading the world in terms of renewable energy, in taking a plan ...

Researchers from Boston College and MIT have managed to develop a new kind of thermo-solar technology by applying a new ...