Innovators are, almost by nature, impatient people. What’s here and now is never good enough; they must tinker with it, always looking ahead to how they would do it differently or better. So, when the first articles appeared about the Solar Electric Power Association’s 51st State Initiative on clean tech websites, including RenewableEnergyWorld.co
While France has set ambitious targets to increase the share of renewables in its total energy consumption, Australia has taken a contrasting approach by repealing its 2011 Clean Energy Act, which established the carbon pricing mechanism, according to …
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Research in solar photovoltaics is alive and well, as many government and university labs around the country are investing resources and pushing the envelope. A sampling of labs shows they’re working on both thin-film and crystalline, with nanotechnology playing a big part, as expected. But some labs are exploring angles you wouldn’t normally think about.
Research in solar photovoltaics is alive and well, as many government and university labs around the country are investing resources and pushing the envelope. A sampling of labs shows they’re working on both thin-film and crystalline, with nanotechnology playing a big part, as expected. But some labs are exploring angles you wouldn’t normally think about.
A new report from the IEA has several interesting charts on solar PV power. Each of the charts is worth a gander, but there’s one that stands out in particular to me, because it shows a much different picture than many of the others. Basically, many of the charts show that China, Japan, and the US dominated new solar PV power installations in 2013,
A new report from the IEA has several interesting charts on solar PV power. Each of the charts is worth a gander, but there’s one that stands out in particular to me, because it shows a much different picture than many of the others. Basically, many of the charts show that China, Japan, and the US dominated new solar PV power installations in 2013,
President Barack Obama will pledge $3 billion to a United Nations climate-change fund that’s intended to help poor nations boost renewable energy and counter the ill effects of global warming.
Peru’s government is set to announce plans for a renewable-energy auction during a global climate conference to be held next month in Lima.
The vertical extension of SunPower’s towering corporate structure with the November 10 addition of SolarBridge’s AC inverters signifies one defining feature for the half dozen solar companies that will survive in the future.
The world’s first solar bike lane is soon to be available for use in the Netherlands! The bike path that connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer is a 70-meter stretch of solar-powered roadway set to open for the public this week.
