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Solar Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Solar Daily Editorial Team produces Solar Daily's coverage of solar energy and the renewable transition. We report on photovoltaics, energy storage, project development, markets and policy, and the research advancing the next generation of solar technology. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Solar Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

World touring solar plane’s final leg to UAE delayed

The final leg of an unprecedented world tour by a solar-powered plane was postponed Saturday due to the pilot's health, he said in a message on Twitter.

Jul 16, 2016

Solar plane lands in Egypt in penultimate stop of world tour

The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo on Wednesday for its penultimate stop as the solar-powered plane nears the end of its marathon tour around the world.

Jul 13, 2016

New milestone in printed photovoltaic technology

Organic solar cells are considered a competitive alternative to the standard silicon cells that are used in photovoltaics.

Jul 13, 2016

Bavarian village pioneers clean energy revolution

A row of wind turbines towers on the edge of the picturesque Bavarian village of Wildpoldsried, population 2,600, where rolling meadows meet pine forests and Alpine peaks line the horizon.

Jul 13, 2016

New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis

Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far-red-light spectrum provides clues to the development of oxygen-producing photosynthesis, an evolutionary advance that changed the history of life on Earth.

Jul 11, 2016

Flipping crystals improves solarcell performance

In a step that could bring perovskite crystals closer to use in the burgeoning solar power industry, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory…

Jul 11, 2016

Discovery could dramatically boost efficiency of perovskite solar cells

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting…

Jul 7, 2016

Solar nano-grids light up homes and businesses in Kenya

Villagers in Lemolo B and Echareria in Nakuru County, Kenya, are waking up today to a new future as new solar nano-grids installed over the last two weeks allows them to switch on lights and operate new agri-processing machinery.

Jul 6, 2016

Saved by the sun

A new twist on the use of renewable energy is saving children's lives in Africa.

Jul 3, 2016

Scientists explain unusual and effective features in perovskite

Perovskite is a material with an almost ideal structure. The majority of high-temperature superconductors are perovskite-based due to their non-ideal structure.

Jul 1, 2016

ACT Now to Track Solar Eruptions in 3D

Scientists at Aberystwyth University have developed an automated method for three-dimensional tracking of massive eruptions from the Sun, called coronal mass…

Jul 1, 2016

US, Canada and Mexico pledge to boost clean energy

The United States, Canada and Mexico will promise on Wednesday to generate half their overall electricity from clean energy by 2025, the White House said.

Jun 28, 2016

‘Flower Power’: Photovoltaic cells replicate rose petals

With a surface resembling that of plants, solar cells improve light-harvesting and thus generate more power.

Jun 28, 2016

Explosive renewables development can deliver on Paris

While some criticize the Paris climate target as impracticable, a team of scholars argues that it is - on the contrary - a triumph of realism.

Jun 28, 2016

Energy from sunlight: Further steps towards artificial photosynthesis

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich in Switzerland have come one step closer to generating energy from sunlight: for the first time, they were able to reproduce one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis with artificial molecules.

Jun 28, 2016

Eating air, making fuel

All life on the planet relies, in one way or another, on a process called carbon fixation: the ability of plants, algae and certain bacteria to "pump&quot…

Jun 28, 2016