Boston MA (SPX) Mar 10, 2015 - Broad accessibility and favorable economics, driven largely by economies of scale and priority treatment by Massachusetts's solar renewable energy credit (SREC) program, have made community-shared s
Okinawa, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2015 - Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's (OIST) Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture sola
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - The University of Colorado Boulder will serve as the Science Operations Center for a NASA mission launching this month to better understand the physical processes of geomagnetic storms, solar flares
Golden CO (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 - Inverter load rejection overvoltage (LRO) tests completed by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of a cooperative research agreement with SolarCity have proven so su
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 - Researchers at the University of Houston have created a new thermoelectric material, intended to generate electric power from waste heat - from a vehicle tailpipe, for example, or an industrial smok
Golden CO (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 - The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has gathered and analyzed data for more than 30,000 solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across the United States to better under
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 - As the sun skims through the galaxy, it emits charged particles in a stream of plasma called the solar wind. The solar wind, in turn, creates a bubble known called the heliosphere that extends far b
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 03, 2015 - A University of Cincinnati research partnership is reporting advances on how to one day make solar cells stronger, lighter, more flexible and less expensive when compared with the current silicon or
Lund, Sweden (SPX) Mar 03, 2015 - Researchers from institutions including Lund University have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis. In a new study, they have successfully tracked the electrons
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Mar 02, 2015 - The activity of the Sun is an important factor in the complex interaction that controls our climate. New research now shows that the impact of the Sun is not constant over time, but has greater sign
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - How did fuzzy logic help a group of researchers in Tunisia and Algeria create an ideal photovoltaic system that obeys the supply-and-demand principle and its delicate balance? In the Journal o
Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - Scientists of the University of Luxembourg and of the Japanese electronics company TDK report progress in photovoltaic research: they have improved a component that will enable solar cells to use mo
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - Magnetic nanoparticles can increase the performance of solar cells made from polymers - provided the mix is right. This is the result of an X-ray study at DESY's synchrotron radiation source PETRA I
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2015 - The fovea centralis, or fovea for short, sits in the middle of the Macula lutea (or macula) of the retina, where the slender, funnel-like ocular cones are especially closely packed together. We see
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2015 - An unusual comet skimmed past the sun on Feb 18-21, 2015, as captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. This comet was interesting for
Huddersfield, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2015 - Research at the University of Huddersfield will lead to major efficiency gains and cost savings in the manufacture of flexible solar panels. It has also resulted in an exceptional number of scholarl
