The invention of a new kind of screen pixel that can double as a solar cell has the potential to significantly increase the energy efficiency of LCD display devices, such as smartphones and e-readers.
A new study on the global thin-film solar power market has found the technology is set to explode from current levels of around $2.9 billion annually, to $44 billion by 2017.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) has found installed solar capacity at higher education facilities in the USA has increased by 450 percent in the last three years.
While recent changes in government policy have caused grief for Australia’s home solar power sector, the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia (SEA) says this has created an even more competitive market, making it a great time to buy solar.
Last week, PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America announced its Casa Grande facility in Arizona has reached “near net zero” as part of the company’s push for environmental sustainability; thanks in part to solar energy.
Suntech, the world’s biggest manufacturer of solar modules, recently announced the company had supplied 150,000 of its solar panels for two utility-scale electricity generation facilities in California.
In an age when diminishing sources of fossil fuels mean the cost of even getting the stuff out of the ground is at times almost not worth the effort and expense, the idea of using solar power to “drill” for oil makes a strange kind of sense. At least, that’s the idea one of the world’s biggest crude oil producers is selling.
Fossil fuel subsidies grew by USD 110 billion from 2009 to reach USD 409 billion last year. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) say it has to stop.
BP has announced it will add to its already substantial wind energy holdings in the USA with a “blade signing” ceremony for the 419 megawatt (MW) Flat Ridge 2 wind farm to be constructed near Wichita, Kansas.
Work has commenced on a bridge spanning the River Thames that will include a canopy consisting of thousands of solar panels.
