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By Robin Sayles Précis: China’s first utility-scale CSP plants will lower development costs using domestic supply but extreme weather conditions in high-DNI areas could offset savings, industry experts told CSP Today. China is to complete its first batch of 20 CSP projects by 2018, representing a total capacity of 1.4…

By GREEN CREATIVE GREEN CREATIVE, the commercial grade LED lighting manufacturer, proudly announces the release of its THINFIT Series 6” and 4” new construction downlights. [PR.com] Read more here:: http://www.pr.com/press-release/691736

By david.glickson@nrel.gov (David Glickson) October 19, 2016 The Energy Department’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced the grand prize winner in the JUMP Smart Phone Call for Innovation. Industry partner CLEAResult provided a $3,000 prize and recognized the winner, selected by a panel of judges at the JUMP…

By heather.lammers@nrel.gov (Heather Lammers) NREL report helps policymakers understand the comparative and collective impact of city energy policies October 19, 2016 The Energy Department’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently examined the carbon abatement potential of city actions in six policy areas as part of the DOE’s Cities Leading through…

Dendrites, whiskers of lithium that grow inside batteries and can cause fires like those in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, are the bane of next-generation lithium batteries. While they usually spread under cover of darkness in a closed cell, a team of researchers has spied on them by cutting a…

By By ANDREW C. REVKIN Analysts of geoengineering challenge the inevitability of millenniums of warming. Read more here:: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/can-humans-go-from-unintended-global-warming-to-climate-by-design/

By Heba Hashem Read more here:: http://social.csptoday.com/tracker/project/sandstone-csp

A revolutionary, light-activated semiconductor nanocomposite material has been created that can be used in a variety of applications, including microscopic actuators and grippers for surgical robots, light-powered micro-mirrors for optical telecommunications systems, and more efficient solar cells and photodetectors. Read more here:: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/solar_energy/~3/W3x9O_mjaZY/161017150756.htm

Scientists have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel. The newly engineered “super yeast” could boost the economics of making ethanol, specialty biofuels and bioproducts. Read more here:: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/fuel_cells/~3/ihprmPN-EGo/161017124017.htm

Physicists have successfully employed a powerful technique for studying electrons generated through singlet fission, a process which it is believed will be key to more efficient solar energy production in years to come. Read more here:: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/solar_energy/~3/iuDtqsmdTgg/161017123741.htm