Efficiency

Energy-Eficient Building

Schneider Partners NYP on Green Solutions for SMEs

Green solutions are now high on the radar of most organizations advocating sustainability as employees slowly make their way back to the office.

Energy Saving

Companies Reduce Emissions by up to 19% Through Digital Tools: Schneider Electric and CNBC Report

Schneider Electric,today released a new report analysing the essential role that digital innovation can play in advancing sustainability and efficiency.

Energy-Eficient Building

Nearly 2k Homes Across West Midlands to get Energy Efficiency Boost

Poor insulated, low income households are set to receive support from the local authorities

Energy-Eficient Building

Bringing Energy-Efficient Building Technologies Closer To Commercialization

The U.S. Department of Energy is accelerating emerging technologies from lab to market through its Technology Commercialization Fund.

Energy Saving

CLP Power, Hong Kong Businesses Find Common Goal in Energy-Saving Incentives

CLP Power has set aside HK$32 million to help businesses reduce power consumption, HK$100 million to subsidise similar efforts in commercial buildings

Solar Cell

Iran Brings 150MW Solar Cell Factory Online

Dec. 23 saw the inauguration of a new solar cell factory in the city of Khomeini, according to the Iranian government’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency …

Energy Storage Battery

Australian Graphene Discovery could Unlock Cheaper, More Efficient Li-ion Batteries

A research collaboration has led to the discovery of Edge Functionalized Graphene (EFG), a form of graphene which is both highly conductive and processable, and…

Energy-Eficient Building

European Commission Suggests Zero-Emission Building Mandate for 2030

The proposed measure, which will now pass to the Council of Ministers and European Parliament for debate, would further the adoption of PV.

Hydrogen Project

ABB to Provide Electrical Equipment to Support the ‘World’s Largest’ Single Stack High-Pressure Electrolyser Project for hydrogen Production

ABB and HydrogenPro have revealed a new collaboration that will look to reduce the cost of hydrogen production to accelerate its wider adoption with a new valid…

Energy Saving

Poland to Improve Consumer Energy Efficiency with €100m Loan

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Polish financial institution BNP have reached an agreement on a €100 million loan that will be used to…

Electric Car

EU Approves €3 billion Spanish Scheme to Support Electric Vehicles

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €3 billion Spanish scheme to support research, development and innovation, as well as environ…

Solar Technology

Nanostructured Layer for Perovskite Solar Cells Using Argon Plasma Etching

A recent study published in the journal Materials Research Bulletin details that plasma etching results in a substantial increase in efficiency and performance …

Solar Cell

Dion-Jacobson Perovskite Solar Cell with 18.82% Efficiency

Scientists in China have used a fused-thiophene spacer to build a two-dimensional perovskite solar cell. It has an open-circuit voltage of 1.03 V, a short circu…

Combined cycle power plant

Ansaldo Energia Starts Work on New 800MW Combined-Cycle Plant in Italy

Ansaldo Energia has commenced a project to improve the efficiency of the EP Produzione thermoelectric plant in Tavazzano and Montanaso, Lodi province, Italy.

Solar Company

JinkoSolar’s Tiger Neo: The Highest Efficiency Bifacial Module in the “True” Sense

Despite the popularity of bifacial modules in utility-scale solar projects, developers are still not satisfied with the promise of PERC bifacial’s higher energ…