NREL Research Pinpoints Promise of Polycrystalline Perovskites
With prior studies into perovskites focusing on bulk recombination, one area left unexamined until now concerned the surface recombination in lead iodide perovskites. NREL's scientists determined recombination in other parts of a methylammonium perovskite film isn't as important as what's happening on the surface, both the top and bottom.
Matthew Beard and his colleagues within NREL's Che
Maryland Legislature Successfully Overrides Clean Energy Veto
Following is a statement by Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), on todays override by the Maryland Legislature of the veto of the Clean Energy Jobs Act:
Battling corrosion to keep solar panels humming
Sue Holmes for Phys.org: People think of corrosion as rust on cars or oxidation that blackens silver, but it also harms critical electronics and connections in solar panels, lowering the amount of electricity produced.
"It's challenging to predict and even more challenging to design ways to reduce it because it's highly dependent on material and environmental conditions," said Eric Schindelholz, a Sandia National Laboratories materials reliability researcher who studies corrosion and how it affects photovoltaic (PV) system performance.
Sandia researchers from different departments collaborate to accelerate corrosion under controlled conditions and use what they learn to help industry develop longer-lasting PV panels and increase reliability. For example, work by Olga Lavrova of Sandia's Photovoltaic and Distributed Systems Integration department demonstrated, for the first time, a link between corrosion and the risk of arc faults in PV systems' electrical connections. Research by Erik Spoerke of Sandia's Electronic, Optical and Nano Materials department focuses on developing new nanocomposite films that could dramatically increase reliability. Cont'd...
SEIA Releases First Universal Disclosure Form for Home Solar Purchases
New Tool Helps Residential Consumers Understand Transaction, Compare Offers
New Sunverge Infinity Extends Energy Management Platform to Third-Party Energy Storage Systems
Sunverge's cloud-based software platform now allows interconnection to a broad range of batteries and inverters, making them available to be integrated into virtual power plants
OSIsoft and Sunverge Energy Launch Alliance to Streamline Data Management for Distributed Energy Resources
Delivering Sunverge data directly into the PI System reduces data management tasks and gives utilities a more unified view of available assets.
Foundations Can Help Low-income Communities Access and Finance Solar+Storage Solutions
A New Report Provides Investment Strategies on Solar, Battery Storage, and Clean Energy Equity for the Philanthropic Community
Trimark Helps Set Commissioning Speed Record for RIG and Meter at AltaGas Pomona Energy Storage Facility
But speed was just one high mark for the project. According to an AltaGas statement, "At 20 megawatts of electricity storage capacity, it is currently the largest battery storage facility in operation in North America."
US Department of Energy Announces SunShot ENERGISE Selections: Smarter Grid Solutions selected with RPU Team
A SunShot ENERGISE proposal for an Integrated Distributed Energy Management System (IDEMS) from a team including Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS), Riverside Public Utilities (RPU), UC Riverside, PG&E and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the next round of the SunShot initiative known as "Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy" (ENERGISE), a national effort to drive down the cost of solar electricity and support solar adoption.
Department of Energy Resources Extends Solar Program
Solar Leaders Celebrate Continued Solar Growth
Massive wind turbine takes energy generation record
John Anderson for NewAtlas: A behemoth V164 offshore wind turbine from Danish company MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has produced almost 216,000 kWh over a 24-hour period during tests at its site near Østerild, Denmark in December. In doing so, the 9 MW prototype – a reworked version of the V164-8.0 MW, which was initially developed in 2012 and launched two years later – takes the energy generation record for a commercially available offshore wind turbine.
Since its launch in 2014, the Usain Bolt of wind turbines is essentially in competition with itself, largely due to its superior size over the competition. The V164 stands at 722 feet (220 m) at full height, with 38-ton blades that are 263 feet (80 m) in length for a total sweep area of 227,377 square feet (21,124 square meters) – larger than the giant London Eye Ferris wheel. Cont'd...
Breakthrough GenCell Fuel Cell Technology Advances San Diego Gas & Electric's Clean and Reliable Energy Leadership
Space Technology Keeps Batteries Charged Up To 10 Times Longer - No Emissions
GOVT POLICY CHANGE TO CREATE BIGGER ENERGY BILLS FOR BRITAIN'S SMEs
Government capacity auction plans will extend the life of polluting coal-fired power plans and push up energy prices for businesses
Power Over Energy Educational Initiative Reaches More Than 107 Million Consumers in Four Years, Launches New Website Highlighting Smart Cities
To mark its four-year anniversary, Power Over Energy also announced the launch of a new website that aggregates news and content about promising developments to counter the impact of our energy consumption such as renewable energy, clean tech innovations, smart cities and conservation.
America is torn apart by partisan politics-except when it comes to buying solar power
Michael J. Coren for Quartz: We are all one when it comes to getting cheap power from the sun. Amidst the political rancor roiling the United States, one bright spot is home solar power installation. It keeps going up, and a study by PowerScout, a company that helps people switch to renewable energy, finds that to be true for households on both sides of the political divide.
PowerScout used machine-learning algorithms and satellite imagery to detect rooftop solar panels on the homes of 1.5 million political donors in 20 states. In mature solar markets like California and Hawaii, Republicans and Democrats install solar at nearly equal rates, says Eric Roberts of PowerScout. In more nascent markets, Democrats have slightly higher installation rates than Republicans. These findings hold throughout the country. Cont'd...
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