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

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 reflect higher fuel cost. ...  more

A delicious and nutritious fruit, dragon fruit can be used in producing dye for DSSC. ...  more

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 supply, caused by excessive mining of the mineral. ...  more

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. ...  more

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. ...  more

After a round of fierce haggling between the authority and developers, the 2019 wholesale rate for offshore wind power has been settled at NT$5.516 kWh, the average for a tiered-rate scheme for 20 years, NT$6.2795 for the first 10 years and NT$4.1422 for the remaining 10 years, with duration for full-capacity operation capped at 4,200-4,500 hours a year. ...  more

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 EnergySage. ...  more

China has banned new PV power station projects in Xinjiang, Gansu, and some areas in Tibet, due to oversupply resulting to overcapacities which have overstrained local grids. ...  more