Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times of scarcity or storing electricity during periods of excess, a new study found Tuesday. Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the […]
Solar energy has been recognized as one of the promising green and renewable energy. Thanks to the synergistic innovation of active layer materials and device optimization techniques, organic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved great breakthroughs in the past decade and attracted widespread research attention. Though it could effectively realize solar energy conversion, it is […]
Ford added a new solar power plant to its manufacturing facility in Valencia, Spain, as part of its commitment to an all-electric, climate-free future. Ford installs new solar power plant in Spain A new 2.8 MW solar panel installation at Ford’s Spain plant is now capable of generating 4,641 MWh per year, or roughly enough […]
Arable land is always at a premium. Since the last ice age, humans have cleared one-third of the earth’s forests and two-thirds of its wild grasslands, much of it for agriculture. And as the world’s population – 8 billion last November – continues to expand, there is increasing pressure on farmland to produce not only […]
Chinese solar giant JA Solar has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona that will produce high performance photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. The new JA Solar plant represents a $60 million investment in Arizona manufacturing. That investment will pay for advanced, highly automated assembly lines that produce high-efficiency solar panels (PV […]
The conversion of solar energy into hydrogen energy represents a promising and green technique for addressing the energy shortage and reducing fossil fuel emissions. A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a lead-free perovskite photocatalyst that delivers highly efficient solar energy-to-hydrogen conversion. Most importantly, they unveiled the […]
