Now that wind and solar energy have proven their ability to generate cost-effective electricity, energy storage is the next technology advance needed to take renewables to another level. Wind and solar create energy on an inconsistent basis that often doesn’t line up with a home, business, or utility’s energy needs,…

Euphoria is easy. And in the case of the climate change accord signed in Paris, it is also justified. After the false dawn of Kyoto and the fiasco of Copenhagen, the world has begun to get its act together. Bravo, world. But only just, and only just in time. And…

Sunny weather and a recent surge in solar panel installations means that solar power could provide a record 15% of the UK’s electricity on Friday afternoon. Torrid heat tends to slightly reduce solar panels’ generating capacities, and with fresher conditions forecast across much of the UK, the amount of solar…

Ginlong Technologies, one of the oldest and largest string inverter manufacturers, announced today that Ginlong Solis inverters are powering the one of the world largest ground-mount utility-scale solar canopies at Shanghai Volkswagen car plant. Ginlong Solis 36kW string inverter is the Inverter of Choice for this gigantic high profile 55…

Nanostructured germanium for portable photovoltaics and battery electrodes Using a new procedure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich (LMU) can now produce extremely thin and robust, yet highly porous semiconductor layers. A very promising material – for small, light-weight, flexible solar…

More than 7 million smart meters will be installed in homes across Great Britain under a new GBP 1 billion mass roll-out programme backed by the European Investment Bank alongside six commercial banks (Barclays, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, Santander, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd)…

Berlin, 2.12.15. A €230m project on future energy was opened by Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Sigmar Gabriel in Germany on Wednesday. The project is called SINTEG (Schaufenster intelligente Energie/ Shop window for intelligent energy), with the catchline Digitale Agenda für die Energiewende (Digital Agenda for the Energy Transition),…

Technology minister Alois Stöger: “Research and development is an important strategic factor in expanding renewable energies and achieving global climate protection goals. As effective climate policy needs innovative energy technologies, Austrian solar expertise is in demand on the global market. We therefore trust the Infinity project will continue to expand…

Ankara, December 1st, 2015 – Turboden, a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), leader in Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbogenerators, for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat, established its daughter company, Turboden Turkey ORC Turbo Jeneratör Sanayi Anonim Şirketi, in Ankara. This new facility has already…

With increasing environmental concerns and greenhouse effects, almost every country is looking for ways to mitigate these concerns. Solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface provides an energy supply potential surpassing the power consumption of our civilization by three orders of magnitude. Even though solar energy seems to be our future,…