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Taiwan’s Power Rate Will Remain Unchanged in April

published: 2019-03-08 11:24
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has reported that it will suggest the power rate screening committee to keep power rate unchanged in April, dismissing a report that power rate will increase by 6% in the first half to refl...  more

Dragon Fruit Used in Producing Dye for DSSC

published: 2019-03-08 11:18
A delicious and nutritious fruit, dragon fruit can be used in producing dye for DSSC. A research team of the National Chiayi University has recently developed a technology using dragon fruit in producing dye for use in the produc...  more

U.S. Sets Up R&D Center for Lithium-Battery Recycling

published: 2019-03-07 9:30
The U.S. Department of Energy has established a R&D center for lithium-ion battery recycling technology, dubbed "ReCell Center," in order to solve the problem of flooding used lithium-ion batteries and shortage of lithium sup...  more

Google to Purchase Floating PV Power in Tainan

published: 2019-03-06 11:54
Google has planned to purchase power generated by floating PV power devices built above fishing ponds in Tainan, to meet the power need of its datacenter in Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, starting 2020. The plan is meant to fu...  more

U.S. Senators Call for Ban on Huawei PV Inverter

published: 2019-03-05 11:49
The U.S. boycott against Huawei has extended from communications to other hi-tech sectors, as 11 senators called for a ban on the company's PV inverters on Feb. 25. The call was contained in a joint statement issued by the senato...  more

Focus on Model 3 Leads to Shortage of Tesla Powerwall

published: 2019-03-04 11:38
Three years after acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla has made significant progress in the development PV products, as evidenced by the growing interests on the market in its energy storage system Powerwall, according to the study of...  more