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All investments in renewables, including early-stage technology and R&D (Research and Development) as well as spending on new capacity, totalled $286 billion in 2015, some 3 per cent higher than the previous record in 2011, said the 10th edition of United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual report — Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016. […]
Emirates Insolaire LLC, a pioneer in the development and application of unique solar technologies and a joint venture of Dubai Investments PJSC [DI] and SwissINSO Holding Inc., has created history with the successful installation of the world’s first KromatixTM coloured solar panels on a building façade in Lausanne, Switzerland. According to Blackbird PR News, the […]
At first glance, the best approach to make a solar powered outdoor lighting product work at winter in the far North is to go for state-of-the-art components: photovoltaic panels, batteries and super effective LEDs. However, the heart of the systems is actually what binds these components together: the power supply and the battery management system. […]
Micheal Rock from South Carolina has invented a New Solar Thermal Hot Water System that promises to change the way people think about Solar Hot Water. According to rocketdome.net, the invention, called “The Rocket Dome”, is different from anything else on the market. The Rocket Dome has many advantages over traditional solar water heating systems. […]
Crystal Green Energy Corporation is a small company of three men, producing extraordinary things. Lead technical and engineering expert Gilles Leduc, along with partners James Delsaut, a pharmacist, and Malik Amjad, an optical design enginer, say they have found a way of building highly efficient solar panels like no other. According to northernlife.ca, while typical […]
By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use anywhere in the world that needs it, but it’s just won the 2015 Desal Prize – a competition run by USAID to encourage better […]
So far, specific details are thin on the new battery designed for home use that Tesla will unveil this month. But just based on what we do know, it’s a pretty big deal. The quest for a good battery that can store home-generated power is kind of like the holy grail for a renewable energy […]
AirClear Energy has announced they have discovered an efficient solution that will generate renewable electrical energy without using fuel. The innovative system has two models that both use clean air and wind to create energy that can keep households, businesses, and private entities operating. To build the first plant in Washington, D.C., the company has […]
Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines two different layers of sunlight-absorbing material in order to harvest a broader range of the sun’s energy. According to pddnet.com, the development could lead to photovoltaic cells that are more efficient than those currently used in solar-power installations, the […]
The Thin-Film Solar Awards Competition, which is open to anyone, is offering cash prizes, incubator sponsorship, and production support for those submitting great thin-film solar product ideas. Are you one of those people who’s always coming up with great ideas, even if you never do anything with them? Do you have a notebook full of […]
