SunEdison Slashes Costs With High Efficiency Module Tech
Belmont CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
SunEdison has announced new zero white space (ZWS) solar module technology. The technology can increase solar module power output by up to 15%, effectively decreasing the total system cost by up to 8%.
"SunEdison's ZWS technology is a major achievement that will significantly reduce the cost of solar energy," said Dave Ranhoff, president of solar materials at SunEdison.
"Most high ef ...
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Vista Solar To Take Part In US State Dept TechWomen Program
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Vista Solar, a leading Bay Area commercial solar installer, announced that it will participate in TechWomen 2014. As part of the U.S. Department of State's TechWomen exchange program, leading companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley will host 78 women from the Middle East and Africa during October.
Through mentorship and exchange, the program provides participants access ...
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U.S. states get federal backing for clean-energy programs
Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2014 -
The U.S. Energy Department said 13 states will get $5 million in funding to advance their local efforts to develop a clean-energy economy.
A state energy program from the federal department of energy has awarded more than $50 million in funding to 33 states and territories to help advance energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
"States and territories have used these fun ...
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Lockheed Martin claims nuclear energy breakthrough
Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2014 -
Lockheed Martin Corp says it has made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, with reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck.
The aerospace and security firm, which made the announcement Wednesday, says it expects its first operational reactor to be ready in as little as 10 years.
And thanks to the reactor's smaller size, the company ...
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Balancing renewable energy costs
Paris (SPX) Oct 17, 2014 -
Increasing reliance on renewable energies is the way to achieve greater CO2 emission sustainability and energy independence. As such energies are yet only available intermittently and energy cannot be stored easily, most countries aim to combine several energy sources.
In a new study in EPJ Plus, French scientists have come up with an open source simulation method to calculate the actual c ...
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Magnetic mirrors enable new technologies by reflecting light in uncanny ways
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
As in Alice's journey through the looking-glass to Wonderland, mirrors in the real world can sometimes behave in surprising and unexpected ways, including a new class of mirror that works like no other.
As reported in The Optical Society's (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica, scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, a new type of mirror that forgoes a familiar shiny metallic surf ...
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EDF Buys Canadian Solar Modules For Catalina Solar 2 Project
Guelph, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Canadian Solar has announced that it has closed a sales agreement with EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE), to supply photovoltaic (PV) modules to the 24.3 megawatt peak (MWp) Catalina Solar 2 project during the first quarter of 2015.
For this order, Canadian Solar will deliver to EDF RE a total of 83,000 pieces of custom specific CS6X-P solar modules in a 7 x 12 cell matrix with dual UL and IEC ...
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Light bending material facilitates the search for new particles
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Particle physicists have a hard time identifying all the elementary particles created in their particle accelerators. But now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have designed a material that makes it much easier to distinguish the particles.
To investigate the matter's smallest constituents, physicists have particles colliding with each other at very high speeds, for example ...
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Study recommends ongoing assessment of offshore wind farms
Solomons MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Offshore wind power is a valuable source of renewable energy that can help reduce carbon emissions. Technological advances are allowing higher capacity turbines to be installed in deeper water, but there is still much unknown about the effects on the environment.
In a recent paper, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Helen Bailey and colleagues review the pot ...
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A New Approach To Monitoring Groundwater Supplies Near Fracking Sites
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
A University of Cincinnati research project is taking a groundbreaking approach to monitoring groundwater resources near fracking sites in Ohio. Claire Botner, a UC graduate student in geology, will outline the project at The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Botner's research is part of UC Groundwater Research of Ohio (GRO), a collaborative research project ou ...
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A global natural gas boom alone won't slow climate change
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing in Nature.
Because natural gas emits half the carbon dioxide of coal, many people hoped the recent natur ...
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Strong partnership for the energy transition
Worrstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
juwi has a new partner: Mannheim-based MVV Energie AG is to acquire a 50.1 percent majority shareholding interest in juwi AG via a capital increase. The transaction is expected to close no later than December 31, 2014.
The two companies agreed to keep the financial and organizational details of the transaction confidential. For juwi, the conclusion of this new strategic partnership is an i ...
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Engineers find a way to win in laser performance by losing
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Energy loss in optical systems, such as lasers, is a chief hindrance to their performance and efficiency, and it occurs on an ongoing, frustrating basis. To help laser systems overcome loss, operators often pump the system with an overabundance of photons, or light packets, to achieve optical gain.
But now engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown a new way to reverse or e ...
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A brighter design emerges for low-cost, 'greener' LED light bulbs
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
The phase-out of traditional incandescent bulbs in the U.S. and elsewhere, as well as a growing interest in energy efficiency, has given LED lighting a sales boost.
However, that trend could be short-lived as key materials known as rare earth elements become more expensive. Scientists have now designed new materials for making household LED bulbs without using these ingredients.
They ...
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Energy Prices and Business Decision-Making in Canada
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Canada has abundant energy sources, from vast oil sands to ample hydroelectric capacity, offshore oil, natural gas, and coal. Given this energy-rich environment, Canada has relatively low energy prices and an energy-intensive industrial structure with the business sector accounting for about three-quarters of total energy demand.
However, energy prices are rising overall and Canadian busin ...
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A simple and versatile way to build 3-dimensional materials of the future
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Researchers in Japan have developed a novel yet simple technique, called "diffusion driven layer-by-layer assembly," to construct graphene into porous three-dimensional (3D) structures for applications in devices such as batteries and supercapacitors. Their study was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
Graphene is essentially an ultra-thin sheet of carbon and possesses ...
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Researchers develop world's thinnest electric generator
New York NY (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchab ...
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Stem and Kyocera Launch Energy Storage For Commercial Users
Millbrae CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Stem has announced that it has teamed with Kyocera Solar to offer an integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage solution for commercial power users.
The new solution automatically reduces demand on the electric utility grid, providing guarantees for significant energy savings now and against possible future tariffs - benefits reinforced by using high-performance Kyocera solar mo ...
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Trina Solar's Monocrystalline Honey Module Sets New World Record
Changzhou, China (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Trina Solar has announced that its high-efficiency Honey solar module has set a new world record for peak power output for P-type monocrystalline silicon PV modules, as independently certified by TUV Rheinland.
The module was developed in the Company's State Key Lab of PV Science and Technology and is composed of 60 156mm x 156mm high-efficiency Honey monocrystalline silicon cells.
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ORNL research reveals unique capabilities of 3-D printing
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 20, 2014 -
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure and properties of metal components with precision unmatched by conventional manufacturing processes.
Ryan Dehoff, staff scientist and metal additive manufacturing lead at the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL, ...
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