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Jinkosolar has announced its new N type all black solar panel specifically developed for home installation, boasting a maximum output of 405 Wp, hitting a 21.22% efficiency, which enables homeowners to fit more power capacity on rooftops than ever before. Jinkosolar has announced its new N type all black solar panel specifically developed for home […]
This is the third time within a span of nine months that the company has set multi-crystalline solar cell conversion efficiency world record (see 22.8% and 22.28% records for p-type multi-crystalline cells). Canadian Solar Inc. (“Canadian Solar” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world’s largest solar power companies, today announced its technology team […]
Toshiba has finalized construction of a 10 MW hydrogen plant in Fukushima prefecture which draws power from 20 MW of solar generation capacity as well as the grid. March 9, 2020Emiliano Bellini The solar-powered hydrogen facility owned by Toshiba in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Image: Toshiba Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corporation has announced its Fukushima Hydrogen […]
By tweaking the chemical composition of the material to create a ‘triple’ perovskite, scientists at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory say they have overcome one of the technology’s inherent stability issues and fabricated a perovskite cell which achieved 27% efficiency in a tandem format with a silicon device. March 9, 2020Mark Hutchins Though perovskite […]
Over the past decade or so, a scientific debate has emerged around whether rapid Arctic warming could be affecting extreme weather in the mid-latitudes. Much of this work focuses on the jet stream – the narrow current of strong winds encircling the globe around 40-50 degrees North. The science is far from settled. The jet […]
Reading about Sony’s 2001 “Cadmium Crisis” in Daniel Esty’s “Green to Gold” book was my first introduction to the financial gravity of environmental noncompliance. This incident had cost the company $130 million, which all began as a result of its inadequate supply chain policies. This illustrated the importance of having sustainability integrated into supply chains […]
The beginning of the year has been full of news about business and the health of our planet. In January, BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink released his annual letter to CEOs that doubled down on his earlier exhortations for business to start considering its impacts and risk in a world with a rapidly changing climate. With […]
The following is adapted from State of Green Business 2020, published by GreenBiz in partnership with Trucost, part of financial information and analytics giant S&P Global. Having moved from fringe, mostly academic conversations into the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and the halls of parliament around the world, the idea of a circular economy is growing […]
With the novel coronavirus outbreak jamming the attention of news media and policymakers alike since mid-January, last year seems like a very long time ago. On 28 February, however, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its annual “statistical communique” of preliminary data on the Chinese economy in 2019. This gives us a first […]
Some of Australia’s key solar farms and wind projects have been hit by yet more transmission downgrades, while some have won a reprieve, in the latest draft inter-regional marginal loss factor calculations published by the Australian Energy Market Operator. The draft MLFs for 2020-21 – published just days after the market rule-maker, the Australian Energy […]