Alternative Energy / Solar Energy

May 01, 2020 at 15:02 | Alex Kimani

Harnessing the motherlode of the sun’s power is almost within our reach.  The sun, our primary source of energy, bathes our Blue Planet in more solar energy than we can…

Apr 28, 2020 at 13:00 | Irina Slav

Windows that let in light and produce electricity at the same time: a recipe for a perfect life and an idea as fascinating as unattainable. At least until recently. Making…

Mar 30, 2020 at 13:58 | Haley Zaremba

Coronavirus is hitting the energy industry hard. First, it instigated a breakup between the OPEC+ countries of Saudi Arabia and Russia, leading to an oil price war which…

Mar 05, 2020 at 13:08 | Haley Zaremba

The solar market is becoming supersized, with the size and scale of solar projects soaring and some of the biggest names in the tech industry getting behind the renewable energy…

Feb 14, 2020 at 17:20 | Haley Zaremba

Last month was the hottest January in all recorded history. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), land and ocean temperatures across the globe were higher last month…

Feb 12, 2020 at 10:57 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The coronavirus outbreak is impacting the energy sector beyond the depressed oil demand in the world’s top oil importer and key oil demand growth driver, China. Due to factory shutdowns…

Feb 05, 2020 at 11:06 | Haley Zaremba

Solar power is cheaper than ever, it’s ultra-abundant, and it emits zero greenhouse gases. But it’s far from perfect--for now. One of the biggest limitations of solar energy (which applies…

Jan 03, 2020 at 09:31 | Haley Zaremba

Earlier this month, many of the world’s leading experts and authorities on climate change and clean energy met at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid to discuss…

Dec 19, 2019 at 14:19 | Irina Slav

Scientists the world over have been trying to take a space-grade, super-efficient process for creating spray-on solar cells and make it economically feasible--on Earth.  Everyone said it was impossible.  Until…

Dec 18, 2019 at 12:13 | Oxford Business Group

In mid-October government officials inaugurated the village of Id Mjahdi, located near the western city of Essaouira. The first of its kind in Africa, the village, which is capable of…

Dec 17, 2019 at 12:25 | MINING.com

Materials researchers at Estonia’s Tallinn University of Technology partially substituted copper with silver in solar cells’ absorber material to improve the efficiency of the devices. In a study published in…

Dec 06, 2019 at 14:12 | MINING.com

Australian mining billionaire and philanthropist Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is said to have come to the rescue of a massive and troubled solar farm in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt, by agreeing to invest…

Dec 03, 2019 at 16:45 | Irina Slav

Everyone’s got an origin story, and solar energy is no exception, but you might be surprised to learn just how far back this origin story goes.   Mankind has been…

Oct 02, 2019 at 12:51 | Tsvetana Paraskova

In the eyes of many investors and climate activists, ExxonMobil is the worst of them all—it is nowhere near the recent climate pledges of its European rivals and it…

Sep 26, 2019 at 13:50 | Irina Slav

Solar power installations out in the open are a common sight in many parts of the world, but how about household solar generators? A team of Swedish and Chinese scientists…

Sep 23, 2019 at 13:51 | Haley Zaremba

A new poll confirms that the majority of constituents in the United States are still opposed to president Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, as…

Sep 12, 2019 at 13:41 | Haley Zaremba

Way back in 2017 (nearly ancient history in the world of energy tech) the United Kingdom was smashing its own solar power records and celebrating “the latest in a series…

Aug 20, 2019 at 10:07 | Haley Zaremba

Solar power is poised for a major boom. Solar panel technology is advancing by leaps and bounds and the industry’s infrastructure has never been so efficient or so affordable. In…

Aug 15, 2019 at 13:49 | Irina Slav

The end of this year will see the beginning of a phase-out for the Investment Tax Credit that was introduced more than a decade ago and spurred a true boom…

Aug 12, 2019 at 13:49 | Irina Slav

Silicon has been to the solar power industry—not to mention the IT industry—what oil has been for the car industry: an essential element without which there would not have been…