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GE has built up an arsenal of solutions to tackle energy problems lately. The company’s flexible power plants like FlexEfficiency 50 or jet-fired aeroderivative ... Read More »

CRES (the Colorado Renewable Energy Society) has formed partnerships with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) and Urban Farmers Collaborative to develop a 2.5 acre... Read More »

A Rice student club will field the university’s first solar car in this week’s Shell Eco-marathon Americas, which takes place Thursday through Sunday at... Read More »

A team of MIT researchers has come up with a very different approach to arranging solar photovoltaic cells: building cubes or towers that extend the solar cells... Read More »

First solar has installed 3.7 million cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film solar panels at the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One. A very thin layer of CdTe... Read More »

Silicon Genesis (SiGen) creates a new ion-implant technology, aiming to reduce silicon material usage in solar panels, thus, reducing cost. Currently, silicon... Read More »

Natcore Technology Inc. has entered a Cooperative Research & Development Agreement with NREL. Under the terms of the CRADA, Natcore and NREL would work together... Read More »

March marks the launch of an important German research group's project to build a better battery for storing energy produced from clean sources. The young... Read More »

GE Energy Financial Services unit just invested $100 million in a 127-megawatt solar farm located near tiny Arlington, Arizona, population 194, about 40 miles... Read More »

A team of MIT researchers has found a way of precisely controlling lab grown microfibers making it possible to grow complex structures that are optimally designed for ... Read More »

  San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced that it has entered into two, long-term contracts to purchase 300 megawatts (MW) of renewable ... Read More »

  Fluor Corporation announced today that it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract byJoule Unlimited, Inc., ... Read More »

In a new study, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) report that... Read More »

A joint research project between the University of Southampton and lithium battery technology company REAPsystems has found that a new type of battery has the... Read More »

New solar cells could increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25 percent, according to scientists from the University of Cambridge. Typically, a solar ... Read More »

Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural... Read More »

Northrop Grumman Corporation was recently awarded a contract to study high-power solar electric propulsion flight system technology for NASA deep space and human... Read More »

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two worlds --quantum physics and nano physics -- and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser... Read More »

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has completed its acquisition of a 49% interest in the Agua Caliente solar project from NRG Energy... Read More »

As part of a four-month NASA contract to create a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies, Boeing will be analyzing how to combine high-power ... Read More »