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Scientists at Monash University claim to have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur battery. They say the new device could enable an electric vehicle to drive more than 1,000km on a single charge. January 7, 2020Emiliano Bellini Researchers at Australia’s Monash University have developed a sulfur-lithium battery which they say has the potential to perform […]
Republished with permission of the Solar Energy Industries Association. To read the full text of the original article, visit https://www.seia.org/blog/2010s-solar-milestones. The 2010s have come to a close, and what a decade it was for solar energy in the United States. Over the last ten years, our industry grew from niche technology struggling to hit its […]
Nordex in December 2019 has received a series of orders with a combined capacity of 308MW from several European countries, boding well for a turnaround of results at the wind turbine OEM in the near future. Nordex shares after the news rose 3.26% to €12.02 ($13.44) in mid-morning electronic trading at the Frankfurt stock exchange, […]
From pv magazine USA. pv magazine USA spoke to Alencon Systems president Hanan Fishman to learn more about what it means to repower a solar power plant. Alencon, based in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, builds two pieces of hardware: the SPOT and BOSS (Bi-directional Optimizer for Storage Systems), based on the increasingly important silicon carbide, and also […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering rule changes that could undermine investors’ ability to push for better environmental performance at publicly traded companies by creating new restrictions on who is eligible to file shareholder proposals and how much support they need to make it onto the proxy statement. A network of corporate oil […]
A joint venture with Japanese peers Toshiba and Denso will make the investment in the Gujarat plant over the 2021-25 period, having pumped $174 million into the first phase of development. January 7, 2020Uma Gupta The major Japanese automotive companies have pledged fresh investment in the facility. Image: Paulbr75/Pixabay Japanese joint venture Automotive Electronics Power […]
Volkswagen has said it expects to produce 1 million electric vehicles by 2023, hitting the milestone two years sooner than originally planned as it continues to accelerate its production of battery cars worldwide. The German carmaker has produced 250,000 battery and hybrid electric vehicles to date, including 70,000 last year alone, and plans to ramp […]
The omnipresence of corporations — as resource extractors and processors, employers and developers, lobbyists and campaign donors — has spawned countless initiatives to tame their excesses and steer their activities in the direction of the common good. Now, the challenge is to transform shared grievance into joint action among disparate campaigns. Greater strategic and organizational […]
China Three Gorges (CTG) signed an offshore wind alliance with compatriot turbine OEM Ming Yang Smart Energy covering developments at home and abroad. Described as a an “offshore wind power framework cooperation agreement”, the two Chinese groups said the deal will see them cement a long-standing relationship in the sector. Zhang Jian, deputy general manager […]
Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way to extract more energy from sunlight. By tuning the structure of a 2D perovskite solar material, researchers from KAUST and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown they can prolong the lifetime of highly energetic hot carriers generated by light striking the material. The approach could offer a […]
