Arc

Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant in Liberia Nears Completion

Contractors constructing the gigantic electricity station at the regional Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant in Harrisburg, Liberia have been warned against failing …

New Technology

Estonian Scientists Use Silver for Next Generation of Solar Cells

Materials researchers at Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology partially substituted copper with silver in solar cells’ absorber material to improve the …

Oil and Gas Technology

South Korean Biochem Company Starts Biodiesel-Petrol Mix Production

SK Chemicals, South Korea's top biofuel producer, has begun research to mix its biodiesel with petroleum-based fuels to produce low-sulfur marine oil that will …

NYSERDA to Replace Fossil Fuels with 20 MW Energy Storage System

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority signed a contract with Lincoln Park DG, a unit of GlidePath Power Solutions, to build a 20 MW stora…

Promising Plastic Waste Research could Benefit Hydrogen Fuel Cell Industry

Scientists have developed a new way to convert plastic waste into a useful chemical.

Power Electronics for Geothermal Drilling – An ARPA-e Funded Research Project

With funding under the ARPA-E awards, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is conducting research on Revolutionary, High-Drilling Rate, High-T Geothe…

Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts

If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…

Solar Technology

New Solar Cell Innovation Could Lead to Affordable Solar Energy

North Carolina researchers have developed a new perovskite solar cell method.

NREL Providing Incredibly Useful Geothermal Research Work and Analysis

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the U.S. is providing incredibly useful geothermal research work and analysis that is set to help push geothe…

CCS

Scientist Discovered A New Bio-based Hybrid Foam for Carbon Capture Process

A new material for capturing carbon dioxide has been discovered as a result from a joint research study by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology and S…

Splitting Hydrocarbons to Make Hydrogen Energy and Valuable Carbon Materials

Rice University in Houston, Texas has launched a major research initiative with Shell to change how the world uses hydrocarbons.

Researchers Developed A Fabric-based Bio-battery That Can Generate Stable Electricity

Researchers from Binghamton University have developed a fabric-based battery that works even under stretching and twisting stresses.

Solar Technology

Punching Holes in Opaque Solar Cells Turns Them Transparent

Researchers in Korea have found an effective and inexpensive strategy to transform solar cells from opaque to transparent.

Up to 30 Percent more Capacity for Lithium-ion Batteries

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and cooperating institutions studied structural changes during the synthesis of cathode materials for fut…

GORD Launches EcoLab,First Energy Efficiency Testing Facility

The Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD) has launched EcoLab, Qatar's pioneering facility measuring energy efficiency and safety for air conditio…