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Nuclear Technology

Westinghouse Unveils SMR Version of AP1000

Rendering of a Westinghouse AP300 plant. (Image: Westinghouse)At a virtual press conference this morning, Westinghouse Electric Company president and chief exec…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Electric Car Batteries Are Difficult to Recycle—at Least for Now

Electric cars require batteries. This is a billion-dollar industry that Norway is investing heavily in. Five gigafactories are currently being built in Norway. …

Solar Panel

Researchers Develop an Additive to Efficiently Improve the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells

Perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) are a promising alternative to traditional silicon-based solar cells because of their high power-conversion efficiency and low co…

Battery

‘Geothermal Battery’ Company Earthbridge Energy Secures Texas Site

Geothermal-based energy storage company EarthBridge Energy has secured land rights to deploy its technology in Texas.The Texas General Land Office issued a geot…

Solar Battery (Storage)

Rimac Tech Enters Stationary Energy Storage With New Tech, Gigafactory Plans

Croatian high-performance EV component supplier and car manufacturer Rimac Technology has developed a novel battery architecture that is said to reduce efficien…

Solar Battery (Storage)

New Inorganic Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Subcells That Are Both Efficient and Stable

All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions formed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving higher effici…

Energy Storage Technology

Engineers Try to Squeeze Energy From Discarded Fruit Using Microbial Fuel Cells

When Doc Brown fed his DeLorean food scraps in Back to the Future as fuel, it seemed like crazy science fiction.Now science is taking over that fiction as UBC O…

Energy Technology

Seeking Alternatives to Silicon, Chinese PV Manufacturers Pour Money Into Perovskite Cells

The demand for solar energy is soaring worldwide. And solar cells with higher power conversion efficiencies and lower costs than the mainstrean ones such as PER…

Energy Saving Products

Toyota Uses Kaneka’s 26.63%-Efficient Solar Cells for Electric Vehicle

Kaneka said the cells will be utilized in the roof glass of Toyota’s Prius PHEV electric car. It plans to begin full-scale delivery of in-vehicle PV produ…

Solar Technology

Perovskite Solar Cell Achieves 24.3% Efficiency, High Stability via Binary Mixed Hole Transport Layer

Researchers in China have built a hole transport layer with a mixed binary configuration integrating the polymer Regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and …

Energy&Power

2nd MENA Power Projects Forum

The 2nd Annual MENA Power Projects Forum will be held on 13 – 14 September 2023 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, building on the productive discussions…

Energy Saving

Lithium Recovery Can Supplement Power Generation and Heat Supply

Geothermal technology not only enables sustainable supply of electricity and heat, but also regional lithium extraction. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of…

Electric Vehicles

Pony.AI Permitted to Expand Robotaxi Rides in China Without a Safety Monitor Present

Autonomous robotaxi startup Pony.ai has garnered its latest permit in China – this time allowing rides in the city of Guangzhou without a safety officer p…

Natural Gas

Russia to Diversify China Gas Supply Routes Away From Gazprom

Russia is considering supplying natural gas to China by a pipeline from companies other than Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, which currently has the monopoly for Ru…

Energy Storage Technology

Air-Breathing Cathode Enhances Conversion Efficiency, Durability of Alkaline Nickel-Zinc Batteries

Nickel-zinc (Ni-Zn) batteries are a promising technology due to their high output voltage, high theoretical specific energy, high safety and low cost. However, …