Taiwan’s largest solar enterprise United Renewable Energy Co. (URE) has announced that it will be significantly cutting its workforce and production capacity for this year. ...  more

Ceres Power, a world leading developer of low cost, next generation fuel cell technology and Doosan Corporation, has signed a Collaboration and Licensing agreement to jointly develop SOFC distributed power systems initially targeted at the Korean commercial building market. ...  more

Taiwan's United Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. (URN) announced on July 8th the layoff of up to 450 of its employees, which is approximately 15% of its total workforce. The layoff comes as the company seeks to scale down its operations to survive the slump of the PV power market. ...  more

Taiwan Mobile has recently announced a donation of NT$1 million, as a part of its initiative for raising NT$3.89 million for the installation of a PV power system, for the Spinal Cord Injury Patient Center. ...  more

Battery electric vehicles (BEV) have been on the agenda of most auto makers. However, recently during BMW's NextGen event in Munich, BMW executive and board member Klaus Fröhlich surprisingly expressed to reporters that EVs are overhyped. "There are no customer requests for BEVs. None." ...  more

The effect of power networks on wildlife, and the corresponding effect of wildlife on power networks, has become of increasing concern over the last two decades. This is encouraging collaboration between the energy manufacturing industry and various wildlife research bodies. ...  more

A research team at Florida State University (FSU) recently announced that they have discovered a new perovskite material that can be used in photovoltaic cells for capturing and converting infrared light or radiation. Most crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells that are now on the market cannot convert infrared light into electricity because infrared rays have longer wavelengths and carry less photon energy. ...  more

The adjustment of the angle of a wind turbine in the front row can significantly dampen the wake effect on the fans in the back row, thereby boosting the overall power output of a wind farm by 28-47%, according to a study from Stanford University. ...  more