The world built more renewables for far less money last year, report UN and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
A $1 billion battery and solar farm will be built at Morgan in South Australia's Riverland by year's end in a project the proponents describe as "the world's biggest".
Dubbed the “artificial Sun”, the Synlight uses concentrated light to power Thermochemical Water Splitting (TWS.) The Synlight project will mimic the effect of intense, continuous solar energy, something that is not readily available in Germany.
A group of researchers funded by a Japanese government program develops “industrially compatible” cells.
A coal mine in Germany will never produce coal again. Instead it is being converted into a pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir. This means that it will be used to store excess energy from green sources like solar and wind.
Tamarugal project expected to theoretically generate 2,600 GWh of electricity annually.
Scientists in England have developed a technique that uses solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass.
Researchers have come up with a new perovskite technology that could dramatically increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of solar cells.
The solar industry in USA saw its biggest growth ever in 2016, and is expected to triple in size over the next five years.
The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13 megawatt SolarCity solar farm. Tesla and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative believe the project will reduce fossil fuel usage by 1.6 million gallons per year.
By the end of 2017, company should have solar arrays covering millions of square footage.
The Indian government has given the second phase of their solar parks program a green light and has increased their target to 40 gigawatts.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have developed a photocatalytic material that purifies drinking water using the power of the sun.
“There is no more business as usual in the energy sector. There are a number of low-carbon technologies about to achieve critical mass decades before some companies expect”, says James Leaton, head of research at Carbon Tracker.
Solar Team Great Britain has created the UK’s first family-sized solar-powered car. The newly formed team has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help them build what it hopes will win the title as the world’s fastest solar-powered car.
