Solar Glass Generates Power Through Your Windows
An exciting technology is being developed by New Energy Technologies (NENE.OB) and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) – a window that can produce solar energy in both natural and artificial light.
An electricity-generating coating is sprayed onto a SolarWindowTM enabling them to retain their transparency while generating energy. … Continue Reading
What better place than the Sun to obtain our energy from
WILMINGTON, Del., - DuPont and Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited (“Yingli China”) have signed a $100 million strategic agreement for photovoltaic materials aimed at accelerating the adoption of solar energy to address one of the world’s biggest challenges – reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Yingli China is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (“Yingli”), a leading solar energy company and one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers. … Continue Reading
China's Sunergy supplied roof-top solar panels to German company
NANJING, China, – China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSUN) (“China Sunergy” or the “Company”), a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, today announced the execution of a 50 MW sales contract with Bull PowerTech GmbH (“Bull PowerTech”). The contract is for projects in Europe, and the shipment is expected to be fully completed by the end of 2012. … Continue Reading
A Solar panel install on a Colorado roof-top
By Ari Levy – There’s at least one bright spot in the troubled U.S. solar industry. After a plunge in prices sent panel manufacturers reeling, consumer demand for the alternative energy is soaring. That’s a boon for California companies such as SunRun, SolarCity, and Sungevity. These startups are buying panels at depressed prices and leasing them to homeowners at little or no up-front cost. … Continue Reading
Solar power has been studied and tested for nearly 40 years, but only within the last few years have we seen innovations truly make leaps and bounds.
While solar cells are often used in space applications to power instruments, they haven’t yet been used to propel a spacecraft – something that may change soon.
NASA recently awarded a contract to study high-power solar electric propulsion flight system technology for its deep space and human exploration missions. … Continue Reading
By Ken Macdonald, BBC - Researchers in Glasgow are working on a way to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and put oil back under the North Sea. The sun gives its energy away for free. We can harvest it with solar cells and wind turbines to make electricity. That’s the good news. The bad? It’s electricity. It’s difficult stuff to store and sometimes, just when you need some, it’s dark or the wind’s stopped blowing.
That’s why Glasgow University’s Solar Fuels Group want us to make the leap from solar power to solar fuel. It’s a multidisciplinary, multi-million pound effort which aims to convert renewable energy into fuel that’s simple to store. … Continue Reading
Rooftop Photovoltaic panels
WASHINGTON–The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM), supported by more than 150 U.S. employers of more than 11,000 workers, today applauded an analysis by Hari Chandra Polavarapu, managing director of solar and clean-technology research for brokerage firm Auriga USA, that underscores the importance of holding China accountable to international trade law. … Continue Reading
Can the Obama administration spur $4 billion in building energy efficiency retrofits without being able to get the money out of a deadlocked Congress? Looks like we’ll have the next two years or so to find out.
President Obama today announced
nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. These investments will save billions in energy costs, promote energy independence, and, according to independent estimates, create tens of thousands of jobs in the hard-hit construction sector.
The $4 billion investment announced today includes a $2 billion commitment, made through the issuance of a Presidential Memorandum, to energy upgrades of federal buildings using long term energy savings to pay for up-front costs, at no cost to taxpayers. In addition, 60 CEOs, mayors, university presidents, and labor leaders today committed to invest nearly $2 billion of private capital into energy efficiency projects; and to upgrade energy performance by a minimum of 20% by 2020 in 1.6 billion square feet of office, industrial, municipal, hospital, university, community college and school buildings. This announcement builds on a commitment made by 14 partners at the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in June to make energy upgrades across 300 million square feet, and to invest $500 million in private sector financing in energy efficiency projects. … Continue Reading
Recently I visited the west coast of the U.S. and being a resident of Florida for the past twenty-plus years I must say that I was totally exhilarated by what I saw in California, and totally disappointed with what I know to be the case in Florida. Over and over, I saw the rooftops of …
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Denmark’s Samso Island is a sort of paradise for renewable energy enthusiasts. The residents have created, in just over a decade, a 100 percent carbon neutral, self-sufficient community.The local Samso Energy Academy is an example for other areas around the globe who might want to create an economic environment that is good for the ecological …
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Here is a brief but possibly, substantial effort to assist in America’s benefit in the price of gas. An overt appeal for a serious effort NOT TO BUY GAS FROM THOSE COMPANIES WHO BUY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. Are you interested in stopping $5/gallon Gas?
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by Dana Blankenhorn – HPEV is among the many companies trying to transform transport by making it more efficient. CEO Tim Hassett said his Hybrid Plugin Electric Vehicle has patents on a technique for using heat pipes to turn engine waste heat into electricity, which can then help power the vehicle. The electric motor acts …
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by Melissa Hincha-Ownby (MNN.com) On Monday, Walmart released its 2012 Global Responsibility Report (GRR). The 2012 report covers sustainability issues at the retail giant during fiscal year 2011, which began on February 1, 2011 and ended on January 30, 2012. Walmart is a large company with a strong global presence and that means that it …
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By Ariele Johannson – (San Diego’s East County)–Driving through the southwestern deserts, I’ve long been impressed by the ocotillo, a cactus-like tree with straight branches angling upwards to the sun, ablaze with red blooms. This thorny desert tree is an apt metaphor for the ways different people view energy issues– especially proposed industrial solar and …
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Illinois and four other states came a step closer to offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes (New, April 1), and that is welcome news. Wind farms, once mocked by climate skeptics and opponents of renewable energy, are now a profitable way to generate clean electricity for our homes and businesses.
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There were 3.1 million green jobs around the U.S. in 2010, according to new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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