5 GigaWatt Solar Power Field To Be Built In South Africa
South Africa has recently unveiled plans for building world's biggest solar energy park, which, according to officials, will be capable of producing about 5GW of clean electricity.
The Blythe Solar Power Project Approved by Federal Regulators For Building 1 GW Plant
The Blythe Solar Power Project, that we talked about in a previous article, has been approved by the U.S. federal regulators. It will occupy 7,000 acres in Riverside County, California, and will generate more than 1 gigawatt of totally renewable energy.
Solar Powered Refrigerator Invented by 23 yo Emily Cummins
Emily Cummins, a 23-year old girl from the UK, has been named an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree for inventing a solar powered refrigerator - basically a device that uses water evaporation to extract heat (just like your skin gets colder when your sweat evaporates off).
Tata Using Steel As Substrate For Cheap Solar Cells
An economically-sound solution to solar power comes from Tata Steel's Corus and Swansea University researchers, who developed a technology that uses steel sheets for more efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.
What Would Happen If The US Granted Solar As Much Subsidy As To Fossil...
1BOG had a wonderful idea from the beginning to make these long images showing one concept or another, some kind of a statistic about various facts, related to alternative/renewable energy. They show the facts in an un-editable, banner-like shape.
Solar Roadways Project Wins $50,000 Ecomagination Prize
After participating in the GE Ecomagination Challenge and winning $50,000, Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie Brusaw are much more optimistic in what concerns their Solar Roadways project, which aims to make the road produce electricity through embedded solar panels.
ZenithSolar's 3rd Generation Solar CHP Delivers 72% Efficiency
A few days ago, the Israel-based energy company ZenithSolar has officially unveiled its 3rd generation Solar Z20. Being installed in Kibbutz Yavne in central Israel, the solar energy generator is a combined heat and power system, able to deliver 72% efficiency.
MIT Researchers Developing Cheap Paper-Thin Solar Cells
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently shown the latest results of the research projects made by Italian oil company Eni, regarding paper-thin solar cells. These could be used as window covers, to harvest solar power.
Oerlikon Solar to Produce Silicon Thin Film Modules at $0.70 Cents Per Watt
According to Oerlikon Solar, the new equipment will help in mass-producing low cost thin film silicon solar modules. This will be possible because of the thinner silicon layer requirements, reducing material costs.
New Quantum Dot-Enabled Solar Cells Doubling Output Current With Same Lighting Conditions
Cost-efficient and energy-efficient solar cells could be right around the corner. These so-called "third-generation" photovoltaics begin to emerge nowadays and dismiss a theory stated in 1961 by William Shockley and Hans Queisser, who showed that there is a theoretical 31 percent limitation in what regards the maximum efficiency for a single solar cell.
