High-tech canopy helps generate solar power while providing shade
Barbara Eldredge for Curbed: Imaginative architect and designer Carlo Ratti has had some bonkers ideas over the past year, including an exercise-powered gym barge and a mile-high skyscraper park. But his latest project is on the sunnier side of feasibility. Literally.
The Sun&Shade is a light-reflecting canopy made of mirrors that automatically rotate to catch the sun’s rays and fling them at a photovoltaic panel, “located a safe distance away.” This generates clean electricity up top while cooling the shaded area beneath. A working prototype of the mirrored structure just debuted at Dubai’s Museum of the Future as part of its “Reimagining Climate Change.” Cont'd...
TSI Dust Monitors and Lufft Weather Sensors Make a Great Team
Both aerosols and wind speed and direction influence air quality significantly. This is why TSI Incorporated, a world leader in particle measurements, cooperates with Lufft USA in order to provide complete systems to measure PM2.5 (fine dust), PM10 (particles with a maximum diameter of 10 μm) as well as total PM levels.
World Patent Marketing Invention Team Announces The Solar Powered Heated Roof, A Home Invention That Prevents Snow From Building Up
World Patent Marketing Reviews A New Home Invention. Will Solar Powered Heated Roof Be The Next World Patent Marketing Low Cost Success Story?
PVinsights: Big Buyers Eventually Dominate Pricing Negotiations
After prices hit the plateau in the previous weeks, polysilicon prices decline slightly this week as overseas polysilicon prices witness minor downward corrections. In overseas markets, as some stock pressures and liquidity needs still hang over some American producers and traders, some polysilicon dumping are still taking place, while Korean polysilicon suppliers have hold the prices firm. On the other hand, polysilicon prices in China remain stable this week. As the room for further price hike is unlikely and the demand in the downstream is not as strong as anticipated, the Chinese polysilicon suppliers have become more conservative in terms of pricing.
Ballard Inks $25M Deal With Broad-Ocean For Fuel Cell Engine Manufacture & Sales in China
Ballard Power Systems today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement relating to technology transfer, licensing and supply arrangements with strategic partner Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd. for the assembly and sale of FCveloCity® 30-kilowatt (kW) and 85kW fuel cell engines in China.
States Preparing for Fuel Cell Vehicles, Reliable Fuel Cell Power Generation
Ten states enacted fuel cell and hydrogen-related polices in 2016, according to the new report by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA), 2016 State Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Wrap Up.
Chinese solar company opening local module factory in September
Victor A. Patton for Sacramento Business Journal: A solar module factory expected to bring more than 200 jobs to Sacramento is slated to begin production in mid-September at McClellan Business Park. It will be the first U.S. factory for Nanjing, China-based solar cell and module manufacturer China Sunergy Co, who on Thursday announced its subsidiary Sunergy America has agreed to lease a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing building — previously a plant where J.C. Penney made window coverings.
Simon Szeto, a Sunergy advisor, said the company will bring around 20 management staff from overseas and will hire other employees locally. The work being done at the factory will include putting together the modules. Each module includes a solar cell, an aluminum frame, tempered glass, cables and a junction box. The completed products, which can be placed on a ground mount or rooftop, will be sold commercially in the U.S, Szeto said. Cont'd...
U.S. Solar Market Grows 95% in 2016, Smashes Records
For the first time ever, U.S. solar ranked as the number one source of new electric generating capacity additions on an annual basis. Altogether, solar accounted for 39 percent of new capacity additions across all fuel types in 2016.
IREC Releases New Guiding Principles for Shared Renewable Energy Programs
This week, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) releases Five Guiding Principles for Shared Renewable Energy - to provide a timely update to the guiding principles that appeared in IREC's original model rules.
Ballard Builds Out China Platform
• Significant 2017 expansion in China-based resources to support planned growth
Analytics and IT Technology Continue Evolution in Utility Market: Highlights from Distributech 2017
Key themes and takeaways from the 2017 Distributech conference
New York's Energy Czar, Richard Kauffman, Receives SEIA Solar Champion Award
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) presented Richard Kauffman, New Yorks chairman of energy and finance and NYSERDA Board chair, with the prestigious SEIA Solar Champion Award, an honor bestowed upon entities or individuals who have helped strengthen solar energy in America.
Catch wave power in floating nets
Zhong Lin Wang for Nature: Nature provides three sources of energy for free: sunlight, air and gravity. Solar and wind power are increasingly exploited, gravity less so. Hydraulic power plants harvest energy from flowing rivers. Tidal energy can be gathered along some inlets and coasts. But few places are suitable for dams or barrages, which can also damage the environment.
By contrast, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. Wave energy is plentiful day and night, whatever the weather. Capturing it requires little land and raises few safety or security concerns. Yet hardly any of this ‘blue energy’ is being generated. Today’s wave farms produce no more than 1–10 megawatts at any one time, enough to power a town. No commercial wave farms currently exist. Full article:
Fast Company Recognizes sonnen as Top Innovator in Energy Sector
sonnen earns fourth major industry recognition of the year, listed in Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy
SoCalGas Pilot Biogas Project Selected by U.S. Energy Department for Funding
New technology converts waste solids into biocrude oil and methane gas
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