China was the world's leading market across a number of renewable energy technologies in 2015 and helped to drive global renewable installed capacity to an estimated 913.48 Gigawatts (GW), says research and consulting firm GlobalData.
Italian energy giant Enel was Monday putting the finishing touches to a corporate restructure designed to put renewables at the core of the company's strategy in a move hailed by erstwhile critic Greenpeace.
Plastic solar cells are light, easy to install, and readily produced using a printer.
Organic-inorganic perovskite materials are key components of the new generation of solar cells.
Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules.
A new study estimates that $2.2 billion in benefits came from reduced greenhouse gas emissions and $5.2 billion from reductions in other air pollution for…
It looks like an inverted tricycle with an egg-shaped shell. The makers of the Elf vehicle tout it as the future of environmentally friendly urban transport, combining pedal power with battery propulsion and solar charging.
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have…
Magnetic storms can interfere with the operation of electric power grids and damage grid infrastructure.
Trainers of dogs, horses, and other animal performers take note: a bacterium named Moorella thermoacetica has been induced to perform only a single trick, but it's a doozy.
For the first time, researchers have trained a non-photosynthetic baterium to perform photosynthesis.
As stars age, their rotations slow. By modeling this process, researchers have been able to accurately estimate the age of stars.
In its latest major transaction in the solar power sector, a Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP deal team led by corporate partner John Franchini and project finance partner Timothy Wendling advised institutional investors advised by J.P.
Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and radiation into space.
Despite seeming passive, plants wage wars with each other to outgrow and absorb sunlight.
Earlier this week, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center reported an M1 solar flare and associated coronal mass ejection.
