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There Will Always be Sun on this Horizon
A partnership between Beaumont Solar and Horizon Beverage is now powering its operations with clean, renewable solar power.
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SolarEdge Launching First PV Inverter-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charger
At Intersolar North America, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. is unveiling the world's first inverter-integrated electric vehicle (EV) charger.
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Investors Generate 174,000,000 kWh of Renewable Electricity
Over 6,000 THRIVE Renewables' investors generated 174,412,390 Kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green electricity in 2016, that's enough to power the equivalent 43,668 UK homes.
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory sees sunspot turn toward Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space probe dedicated to the study of the sun, has captured footage of a sunspot rotating towards Earth.
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Meniscus-assisted technique produces high efficiency perovskite PV films
A new low-temperature solution printing technique allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals intended to minimize current-robbing grain boundaries.
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Solar cell design using diverse plant pigments
A member of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with his colleagues has optimized and characterized TiO2-based .
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Improved representation of solar variability in climate models
How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a reduction of solar forcing in the future?
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Elon Musk’s Tesla to build world’s largest battery in Australia
Elon Musk's Tesla will build what the maverick entrepreneur claims is the world's largest lithium ion battery within 100 days, making good on a Twitter promise to ease South Australia's energy woes.
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Chinese Solar Farm in the Shape of a Giant Panda Can Be Seen From Space
When astronauts look down at China in the future, it will not just be the Great Wall they can pick out.
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Scientists uncover origins of the Sun’s swirling spicules
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun's surface.
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Musical Sun Reduces Range of Magnetic Activity
A study of the Sun using sound waves suggests that the layer in which the significant magnetic activity is located has grown thinner in recent years.
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Environmental groups say G20 paying lip service to clean energy
The world's leading economies are skewing their financial strength toward fossil fuels even as the rhetoric shifts to renewables, environmental groups said.
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The Last Day of Net-Metering Brings Memories of Fighting for Every Solar Watt
Up at 5am to revise a single line diagram for a solar grid tie system so SCE can give Permission-To-Operate (PTO). Over the years the single line diagram was accepted or rejected based on the particular way that an "inspector" learned it.
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Shining a Light on Solar Energetic Particles and Jets
A team of astronomers, led by PhD researcher Malcolm Druett of Northumbria University at Newcastle, have taken a big step forward in understanding a 30-year-old mystery in the process of formation of solar flares.
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Exciting new material uses solar energy to remove man-made dye pollutants from water
A novel composite material has been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which shows promise as a…
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Californians take a shine to solar power
Jacquie Barnbrook had grown tired of the high electricity bills and her gas-guzzling luxury car when she finally decided to take the plunge last year.