A research team of the Colgate University of the U.S. has developed a simple sun-tracking device capable of boosting power output of solar panels by one third. ...  more

Taiwan-based Forest Water Environmental Engineering (Eng’g) Co. Ltd. reported that its combined revenue for this February totaled TWD 298 million, a drop of 9.7% from the same month of the prior year and a drop of 31.87% from this January. ...  more

U.S. PV firm Sun Power has rolled out the world's first residential solar panel with output power breaking the 400 W mark, reaching 415 W, a far cry from 250-350 W for most solar panels available on the market now. ...  more

The interest in energy storage systems among utility companies is rising as the the concept of developing a more flexible way of delivering power to the grid gains prominence. ...  more

Swedish car maker Volvo has started testing of the world's first full-sized driverless electric bus in Singapore from March 5. ...  more

The WFO (World Forum Offshore Wind) has called for installation of 500 GW offshore wind power capacities worldwide by 2050, boosting the accumulated total to 520 GW. ...  more

Japanese auto giant Honda announced in a press release on 5 March – the first day of this year’s Geneva Motor Show – that it has set the goal of adopting electric power trains for all of its four-wheeled vehicles sold in the European market by 2025. ...  more

The development of offshore wind generation has been progressing at a rapid pace in recent years. The latest data and report published by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reveals that the cumulative total of installed offshore wind capacity worldwide at the end of 2018 came to 23GW, showing a growth of 9% from the end of 2017. ...  more

Generating usable electricity with just the normal amount of heat emanating from a person’s body seems like a far-fetched concept. However, a team of researchers at South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) recently announced that they have created a wearable thermoelectric generation system that converts human body heat into electricity. ...  more

Suzhou Giga Solar Materials Corp., a subsidiary of Giga Solar Materials Corp., has been approved by the Bureau of Energy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, for setup of a large-scale ground-mounted PV power station in Tainan. ...  more