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U.K. to Inaugurate The World’s Largest Wind Turbines by 2023

published: 2019-10-24 0:30

The UK’s Dogger Bank Wind farms will reportedly use the latest Haliade-X12 MW wind turbine from GE Renewable Energy, which is known to be the world's largest wind turbine model. ... more

China’s Meteoric Rise to Energy Superpower

published: 2019-10-24 0:00

China is rising fast from zero to hero in the field of renewable energy. In 25 years, it went from having practically zero solar modules to becoming the largest PV market in the world. ... more

URE Presents Hydrogen Scooters and Energy Storage Solutions at Energy Taiwan 2019

published: 2019-10-23 11:38

Taiwan’s United Renewable Energy Co. (URE) is presenting a wide range of technological solutions at this year’s Energy Taiwan, a three-day industry exhibition held in Taipei to showcase the latest trends in the renewable energy sector. ... more

PV Pump Can Prevent the Desertification of Oases at a Low Cost, according to Study

published: 2019-10-23 9:30

A research team in Western Africa has reportedly developed a special PV-powered water pumping system that can significantly cut the water pumping costs in desert regions. According to the research team, the pump can be used to prevent the desertification of oases in many desert regions. ... more

Nikkei: This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Draws Attention to the Competition in Li-Ion Battery Industry

published: 2019-10-21 11:46

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their work in developing lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. The sharing of the prestigious prize among the three scientists has also reignited the market’s interest in Li-ion batteries, an energy storage technology that is now indispensable in people’s everyday lives. ... more

Nano Material MXene Can Boost the Efficiency of Peroskite PV Cell by 25%

published: 2019-10-18 0:30

A team of Russian and Italian researchers have successfully developed a new type of Perovskite PV cell which utilizes a special nano material known as MXene to increase its performance. According to the researchers, the use of MXene can boost the efficiency of the PV cells for electric charge conversion by as much as 20%. ... more

Global Capacity of Bifacial PV Cells Will Top 21 GW by 2024, according to Study

published: 2019-10-17 0:30

Thanks to their high efficiency, the global capacity of bifacial PV cells will triple in five years, topping 21 GW by 2024, for 17% of the world’s total PV-cell capacity, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. ... more

Floating Solar on the Rise in Renewable Energy

published: 2019-10-17 0:00

The floating photovoltaics, according to the World Bank’s report, has come a very long way. The first floating solar energy was built in Japan in 2007. Soon countries like France, Italy, South Korea, Spain, and the U.S. all followed suit and tested with their own installations of smaller scales, which are mainly for research and demonstration. ... more

Swiss Firm Develops Energy Kites to Harvest Strong Winds at an Altitude of 500 Meters for Power Generation

published: 2019-10-16 15:25

A radical concept developed by a Swiss firm has upended the popular understanding that capturing wind energy for electricity generation requires tall wind turbines with huge blades erected on land or at sea. TwingTec, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), has developed an airborne wind energy (AWE) system that works similar to flying a kite. ... more

New Pliable Conductive Material Conducive to the Development of Microbial Fuel Cells

published: 2019-10-16 0:30

A joint team of European and U.S. researchers has successfully developed a pliable conductive material, which is applicable in microbial fuel cell with the potential of powering wearable devices. ... more

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