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Scientists Convert Plastics Into Useful Chemicals for Fuel Cells Using Sunlight

Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals by using …

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…

Solar Price

Perovskite Solar Cell Method to Make Solar Energy More Affordable

That's when French inventor and renewable energy pioneer Augustin Mouchot used his diverse expertise in mathematics and physical sciences—along with his keen i…

Energy storage technology

How Energy Storage’s Growth Trajectory Differs

It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. But storage's trajectory differs f…

CCS

The Economics And Technology Behind Trapping Carbon Dioxide

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to partner with the University of Wyoming to accelerate research on carbon capture technology at two of the state’s coal-fi…

Material Developed for Solar Cell Efficiency Enhancement

The Institute for Basic Science announced on Dec. 2 that its Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, led by director Lee Young-hee, has developed a two-dim…

The 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies

It focuses on timely and emerging topics of interest to the Renewable Energy Technologies that provides an opportunity for in-depth exchange of research ideas i…

Distributed Solar

What’s Holding Back Community Solar?

Research shows nearly half of U.S. homes and businesses are unqualified for suitable PV systems. Add demographics who lack permission or funding for installatio…

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.

LNG

Volkswagen to Use LNG-Powered Car Freighters

Volkswagen Group Logistics has announced that it is the first company to use two car freighters powered by LNG in overseas traffic.

DOE Plans to Weaken Energy Efficiency Standards for Quick Dishwahers

The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing forward with plans to allow faster-cleaning dishwashers to duck current energy efficiency standards, a move critics sa…

Electric Vehicle Charging

Startup Tests Robotics And Sensor-based Conductive Autonomous Fast-charging for EV

Even as electric vehicle technology transforms the industry, most EV chargers still bear a strange likeness to the traditional internal-combustion world, pluggi…

Electric Car

SERES Partners with BYD to Develop Next-Generation Power Electronics

SERES, a subsidiary of Chongqing Sokon Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen BYD Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (BYD Microelectronics) have entered a strategic pa…

Thermal Plant

A Massive Coal Plant That Asked for Trump's Help Has Gone Dark

In the end, the unraveling economics of U.S. coal proved too much for even a giant among power generators to handle.

Solar Power Plant

New Tenders to boost India's Solar Capacity by 28% in 2019

India’s utility scale solar capacity is projected to rise 28% YoY or 8.5 GW in 2019 and 29% or 11GW in 2020, JMK Research & Analytics reported. The sector is e…