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Solar Company

EDF Backs Egyptian Solar Player

EDF Renewables and Egypt-based developer KarmSolar have entered into a strategic partnership targeting commercial solar opportunities in the North African count…

RSSB Appoints Arup to Review Case for Hydrogen Trains

Arup’s responsibilities will help to inform specific design solutions for hydrogen-powered trains, factoring in safety and operation risks.

Offshore Wind Power

WindEurope Report ：EU Commission's Targets for Offshore Wind Power Are Achievable

The ‘Our energy, our future’ report, released on 26 November 2019 at the Offshore 2019 event in Copenhagen, is a remit from the energy ministers of the ten ‘…

UK Households Support a Return to Hydrogen as a Domestic Fuel

Households in the U.K. would support a return to the use of hydrogen as a domestic fuel and believe it would have a positive environmental impact, research show…

Solar Technology

Ternary Acceptor and Donor Materials Increase Photon Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells

A paper published this week in Applied Physics Reviews presents a practical guide for selecting materials for ternary organic solar cells.

ABB to Upgrade Copel Hydroelectric Power Plant in Brazil

ABB has won a US$2.5 million contract from Copel to upgrade the 1240MW Governador José Richa hydropower plant (previously Salto Caxias) on the Iguazu River in …

European Regional Development Fund Will Provide £4.3m to Accelerate Wind-Wave Floater

Renewables developer Marine Power Systems (MPS) has been awarded over £4m by the European Regional Development Fund to accelerate the development of floating o…

Dasu 4,320MW Hydropower Project Contract Signed for Rs52.5 Billion

The Water and Power Development Authority on Monday signed a contract of Rs52.5 billion with a joint venture of General Electric Hydro China and Power China Zho…

Fleets of Low-Sost Single Wave Energy Devices Could Power Millions of Homes

Engineers believe the Dielectric Elastomer Generator (DEG) device could be installed within decades, providing fleets of low-cost, easy to maintain units.

Coal Price

Despite Talk of Coal's Demise, it Still Powers the World

The amount of electricity generated from coal jumped 7 percent in the developing world last year, according to Bloomberg NEF’s annual Climatescope report that …

A Highly Energy-Efficient Memory Device Inspired by Solid Lithium-ion Batteries

Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) have developed a new three-valued memory device inspired by so…

Clean Coal

Coal: Is This the Beginning of the End?

The fuel that powered the industrial revolution may be in decline at last. This year looks set to see the largest fall in electricity production from coal on re…

Solar Technology

Night Time Solar: Lightsource BP Hails Trial Showing Solar can Help Balance the Grid at Night

Trial marks the first time a UK solar farm has provided a reactive power balancing service to the electricity grid at night, developer claims

Australia: Making Every Building Count in Meeting Emission Targets

Buildings in Australia account for over 50% of electricity use and almost a quarter of our carbon emissions but the failures, frailties and fragmentation of the…

Global CO2 Level Continues to rise

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).