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New solar power on tap for India
A contract for a new solar project in India could help the country reach its goals for renewable power capacity, French energy company ENGIE said.
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IEA: India needs diverse investments in renewables
India, which accounts for about 6 percent of total world energy demand, is making strides with renewables, but needs more investments, the IEA said.
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Charting the skies of history
Ice cores and ancient sediments can be gleaned for clues to weather and climate in the past.
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Alberta sees potential in bubble-up solar strategy
Solar programs at the municipal level are supporting Alberta's goal of building its renewable energy mix to 30 percent by 2030, a provincial minister said.
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Report shines light on installed costs and deployment barriers for residential solar PV
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are making available the most detailed component and…
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Record amount of renewables capacity added in 2016: UN
The world added a record 138.5 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in 2016 despite a 23 percent drop in investment, reflecting the falling cost of clean energy, the UN announced Thursday.
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More pressure mounts on Trump’s energy agenda
The Trump administration is on the wrong side of the law with efforts to delay the execution of clean power rules, a group of states and advocates said.
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Electronic control to ensure photovoltaic systems always work at maximum power
After having developed various algorithms and control systems and having applied them in a whole range of fields, such as robotics, control of motors in…
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Concept, SolarTech team up next-gen solar panels
Concept by US, manufacturer of the POWERSTATION 247 product family has announced a new partnership with SolarTech Universal,a US.
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Next generation perovskite solar cells with new world-record performance
A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new cost-efficient way to produce inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) which sets a new world-record efficiency performance, in particular photostability.
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Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnection
Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should.
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Bio-inspired energy storage: A new light for solar power
Inspired by an American fern, researchers have developed a groundbreaking prototype that could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding solar back as a total energy solution.
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Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting
Our sun is a chaotic place, simmering with magnetic energy and constantly spewing out particles.
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Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun’s Atmosphere
Every so often the Sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems.
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Financialization’s negative effect on the American solar industry
: The increasing role of the United States' financial sector in the 1980s and 1990s, when it shifted from focusing on technology investment to speculating on future markets, impaired the country's emerging solar industry, a new study reports.
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The economic case for wind and solar energy in Africa
To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants…