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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…

Microgrid

California’s Culver City Mulls 3 Microgrid Options, May Issue RFP

Roughly a year after commissioning a feasibility study, Culver City, Calif., is considering issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to move forward with a municip…

Scientists See Disaster Looming in World Production of Coal, Oil and Gas

If world governments don't limit the production of coal, oil and gas in the next decade, global warming will exceed the targets needed to ward off the worst eff…

India's Hydropower Capacity Addition Plans in Limbo

India, the 7th largest hydropower making country in the world, had an installed hydro capacity of around 45,400 MW by end 2018

Why We Must Set a Date to Phase Out North Sea Oil and Gas

We don’t need to stop using oil and gas tomorrow, but we do need to set a date by which its use will be phased out in order to tackle climate change, writes Dr…

Power Construction

Egypt to be in Charge of Developing African Power Grid

Minister of of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker said Monday that Egypt, upon the request of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)…

Solar Power Panel

Cleantech Solar commissions 914 kWp on-site rooftop solar PV at Molnlycke in Malaysia

Over 2,600 solar panels have been deployed on top of Mölnlycke’s manufacturing facility located in Kuala Ketil through a long-term power purchase agreement (P…

New Technology

Scratching the Surface of Perovskites: Optimize Solar Cells

Versatile compounds called perovskites are valued for their application in next generation solar energy technologies. Despite their efficiency and relative chea…

Solar Technology

Clear, Conductive Coating Could Protect Advanced Solar Cells

MIT researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing a tenfold gain in its electrical conductivity. When incorporated into a t…

CHP

INNIO Partners with HanseWerk AG to Develp A Hydrogen-Fueled CHP Plant in Hambug,Germany

The companies said that green hydrogen is particularly attractive to Northern Germany given its vast wind resources and is gaining ever greater significance as …

Solar Technology

A New Type of Hybrid Colloidal Quantum Dot: Organic Solar Cells

Solution-processed semiconductors, including materials such as perovskites and quantum dots (i.e., small particles of matter in the quantum size regime), are su…

New Technology

New Study Looks to Biological Enzymes as Source of Hydrogen Fuel

Research from the University of Illinois and the University of California, Davis has chemists one step closer to recreating nature's most efficient machinery fo…

Mitsubishi And Chubu Electric Power to Purchase Dutch Energy Supplier Eneco for €4.1bn

A consortium formed of Japanese companies Mitsubishi and Chubu Electric Power Company has agreed to acquire Dutch energy company Eneco for €4.1bn, beating bids…

Wind Turbine

Nexans to Provide Vestas with Two-Year Windlink Cable Kits for Onshore Wind Turbines

Nexans has secured a two-year global supply contract to provide Vestas Wind Systems with Windlink cable kits for onshore wind turbines in Europe, the US and Chi…

Schneider Electric Study Reveals Hyperscale Inflection Point In The Data Center Value Chain

81% of value chain respondents say hyperscale and colocation data centers will positively impact their business in the future.