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Solar Technology

Bright Future for Australian Solar Research With $45M Funding Boost

The funding will extend operations of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics in conducting solar research to 2030

Solar Power Panel

$45 Million for Solar PV Research

The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) is set to receive up to $45 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for t…

Australia

Australian PV Researchers Get $31.1M Gov’t Funding

This will enable them to extend their solar research activities to 2030.

Geothermal Power Plant

Underground Geothermal Research Facility to Be Put Up in Germany

A partnership led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will be putting up the GeoLaB, an underground research facility that seeks to understand fundamental …

Nuclear Reactor

First Plasma Propels Zap Energy’s Plans for Garage-Sized Fusion Reactors

Nuclear fusion is an incredibly complex scientific problem that researchers are coming at from all sorts of angles, and Zap Energy is starting to make waves thr…

India

New Report Shows That India Will Require $223 Billion to Meet RE Goals

​India will require $223 billion of investment in order to meet its goal of wind and solar capacity installations by 2030, according to a new report by researc…

Sandia Researchers Test Explosives for the Expansion of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to …

Solar Power Panel

New Thermophotovoltaic Cells Turn Heat Into Electricity More Efficiently Than a Steam Turbine

Jennifer Chu at MIT describes new research, in collaboration with NREL, that has led to a prototype solid-state heat engine that can operate at up to 2,400 deg…

United Kingdom

EDF Renewables Progresses With Two UK Solar Projects

Two consented projects that EDF Renewables UK added to its solar portfolio in March 2021 have progressed to the site preparation and construction stage.

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Could Be ‘Key’ to Unlock New Energy Sources, Says NI Report

QUB researchers said geothermal energy is in the ‘early development niche phase’ and suggested ways to put ‘market scaffolding’ in place to develop the indu…

United States

U.S. Sustainable Funds Mark Rare Outflow in May

Investors in May pulled $3.5 billion from U.S. mutual funds using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, researcher Morningstar Inc said on Thursda…

Hydro Generator Unit

Scotland Hydro Development Featuring Archimedes Screw Now Online

The 92 kW Hydro Ness generator on the banks of the River Ness in Scotland is now fully operational, according to the Scottish Highland Council.

Net Zero Emission

Japan Tests Deep-Ocean Current Turbines in Search of New Renewables

Japan has lots of coastline and control over the world's sixth-largest territorial waters, making ocean-based alternative energy ideas particularly attractive.

Hydrogen Project

World’s Largest Hydrogen Fuel Blending Project Completed

Mitsubishi Power and Georgia Power, along with the Electric Power Research Institute, have validated fuel blending of hydrogen and natural gas at both partial a…

Carbon Emissions

EDF Renewables Wins Three Solar+Storage Contracts in New York

EDF Renewables North America has announced three solar projects were awarded long-term contracts by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority as …