Apple’s North Carolina Data Center to Be Powered by Nation’s Largest User-Owned Solar Array

The intelligence behind Apple's Siri is going to be run by the data center powered by the largest end-user-owned solar array. The company that...

UK Scientists One Step Closer to Artificial Leaves With New Discovery

As the world stands on grim perspectives, such as the doubling of energy consumption within the next 40 years and the imminent shortage of...

Australian Scientists Enhancing Thin Film Solar Cells’ Efficiency

The thin-film technology strives for closing the gap with silicon cells in the race for the most efficient solar panels. Researchers from the Swinburne University...

Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project to Power Las Vegas Starting Next Year

Molten salt storage facilities have literally flooded the news lately, as they're present in most of the countries harvesting solar power in a serious...

Specially Designed LiFePO4 Batteries Aiming To Reduce Solar Power Cost

Solar power plants need to store the energy they produce, and this is one of the challenges the alternative energy sector faces nowadays. A...

Singlet Exciton Fission Solar Cells from Cambridge 44 Percent Efficient

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new kind of solar cell which uses a phenomenon called "singlet exciton...

India – The Country Most Oriented on Renewable Energy in 2011

After you found out India's impressive solar power figures, you might say that it's easy for them to go that far: after all, fewer...

Honda to Install Soltec Solar Panels at Japan Dealerships

Why would Honda, or any dealership for that matter, want to install solar power generation systems? Well, for one, to reduce carbon emissions. Or...

Tennessee Researcher Uses Photosynthesis and Zinc Oxide Tubes to Create Electricity

Yet another discovery to harness the "miracle" by which photosynthesis makes use of sunlight is about to teach scientists how to produce cheap energy...

MIT Researcher Develops Cheap Solar Cells from Grass and Dead Leaves

Ever thought it's such a waste throwing away that fresh bundle of cut grass or dead leaves from your backyard? Well, even if you...