Dive Brief: At 182 GW, solar power installations accounted for half of all global additions last year, with wind expansion making up a quarter of the new generation and fossil-fuel expansion contributing 14%, BloombergNEF said in a report released Wednesday. However, coal-fired power generation jumped an unprecedented 8.5% in 2021 to a record 9,600 TWh, […]
A bunch of new home batteries were unveiled at the RE+ trade show last week. Here’s a quick look at a few of them. Formerly known as SPI, ESI, and Smart Energy Week, the RE+ trade show in Anaheim, California ran from September 19 to September 22. It was a huge affair, with 814 exhibitors […]
Ultimately, every bit of energy in the world comes from the sun. He is the reason why plants and animals turned into fossil fuels. Solar power is the source of all our food, our energy for transportation systems, and the energy needed to run industries. While we think of water and wind as renewable energy […]
Australia has a golden opportunity to expand its solar energy manufacturing capacity as the industry booms and nations scramble to cut their over-dependence on China, a report by the Australian Australian PV Institute Institute says. The country is installing 4GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity a year already but meeting just 3% of that from […]
SOLAR: Mississippi’s two regulated electric companies push back against state regulators’ new rule that expands incentives for customers to install solar panels and other renewable energy systems. (Mississippi Today) ALSO:• A 317 MW solar farm that will be Texas’ second largest solar energy facility takes shape west of Houston. (KHOU)• A North Carolina solar business […]
Rice University engineers say they’ve solved a long-standing conundrum in making stable, efficient solar panels out of halide perovskites. It took finding the right solvent design to apply a 2D top layer of desired composition and thickness without destroying the 3D bottom one (or vice versa). Such a cell would turn more sunlight into electricity […]
