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Power Construction

Husk Power Launches ‘Minigrid-In-A-Box’ Solution

Husk Power says Prism, its new containerized minigrid-in-a-box solution, allows it to deploy minigrids at a rate of one per day with the same resources.Husk Pow…

Electric Vehicles

GM to Refocus Autonomous Driving Development on Personal Vehicles; Combining Cruise and GM Tech Teams, Cutting Robotaxi Development

General Motors plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and prioritize development of advanced driver assistance systems on a path to fully autonomous p…

Solar Module

Cooling PV Modules With Lauric Acid and Nanoparticles

Thai researchers developed three organic phase-change material (PCM) mixtures with nanoparticles to cool PV modules and improve efficiency. They used lauric aci…

Floating Solar

Testing Rigid Connectors in Floating Photovoltaics

New research from China shows that using rigid connectors instead of polyester ropes in floating photovoltaic arrays may help reduce the relative motion of floa…

Electric Vehicle Charging

CEC Approves $1.4B Plan to Expand Zero-Emission Transportation Infrastructure

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a $1.4-billion investment plan that accelerates progress on the state’s electric vehicle (EV) charging and…

Battery

Australia’s Batteries Surf Revenue Wave on Back of Volatile Power Prices

Investments in battery storage within Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) are increasingly profitable due to higher power price volatility and c…

Electric Vehicles

Volvo Begins Autonomous Operations for DHL Supply Chain in Texas

Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) and DHL Supply Chain have launched autonomous operations in the United States. The operations will be enabled by the purpose-bu…

Solar Module

Unimacts to Expand Houston Facility for Steel Solar Frame Production

Origami Solar sees an opportunity to supply module manufacturers in the US market who are switching from imported aluminum frames to domestically made steel fra…

Electric Vehicles

EPA awarding $735M to assist in purchase of 2,400 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that 70 applicants across 27 states, three Tribal Nations, and one territory have been tentatively select…

Solar Panel

US Doubles Solar Polysilicon and Wafer Tariffs on China

The US government has doubled Section 301 tariffs on imported solar polysilicon and wafers from China to 50%. The materials are vital for manufacturing solar pa…

EV Technology

ZF in Serial Production of SMotion Active Chassis Dampers

ZF is an industry leader with 25 years of experience in electronically controlled chassis damping system development. A new era of damping technology has begun …

Solar Technology

Expandable Solar Roof Rack Adds 1 KW of Off-Grid Charging for EVs

US startup DartSolar says its new roof rack attachment for electric vehicles adds up to 20 miles (32 km) of additional range per day.Los Angeles-based DartSolar…

Germany

Seasonal Geothermal Cold Storage Pilot Implemented in Bochum, Germany

Fraunhofer IEG will be implementing an industrial cooling pilot using geothermal storage at the site of industry partner Voltavision in Bochum, Germany.A pilot …

Geothermal Heating Project

Geothermal Heating System in Smith College, MA Starts Operations

The first phase of a USD 220 million geothermal heating project in the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts has now started operations. The system is now…

Geothermal Heating Project

US DOE to Support Geothermal Heating and Cooling in Five Communities

The US Department of Energy, through the Geothermal Technologies Office‘s (GTO) Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Initiative is supporting five com…