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New Jersey Power Utility to Examine Nautilus Offshore Wind Power Project Plan

The small-scale Nautilus Offshore Wind Power project, expected to be comprised of three wind turbines with a combined capacity of up to 25 megawatts (MW), is a crucial first step towards implementing the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has officially accepted the application tendered by EDF Renewables and Fishermen’s Energy […]

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Conti Solar to Construct 35 MW Solar Portfolio for Southern Sky Renewable Energy

Further, the portfolio which Conti Solar will develop contains 5 projects including brownfield, landfill, and greenfield projects and are located in the towns of Warwick, Cranston and Johnston in central Rhode Island. Solar EPC, O&M and energy storage company Conti Solar was selected to provide full turnkey EPC services for Southern Sky Renewable Energy’s 35 MW […]

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Energy Harvesting Chip Market to Approach $3.4bn by 2022: Semico Research

A broad range of markets will employ energy harvesting to either replace batteries or extend battery life. In an addition to the evidences to show that alternate sources of energy are going to be consumed more than ever in near future, a research report by Arizona based market researcher, Semico Research shows that the energy […]

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‘Black Silicon’ Helps Reduce Solar Panel Cost

The black silicon technology can only reduce the costs of solar components till a certain limit. Taking a step towards cost considerations of solar modules, researchers at Aalto University have found a way to reduce production costs of solar cells by more than 10 percent by using ‘black silicon’. Moreover, creating Nano-textures on silicon with […]

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Will Facebook Run All on Renewable Energy in Two Years?

World’s largest social networking website, Facebook, in 2015, had set the target of running 50 percent of its facilities on renewable energy by 2018. Facebook has recently set a target of running completely on renewable energy. The market experts on analyzing its previous targets of being 50 percent renewable dependent by 2018 has speculated an […]

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Solar Power Efficiency May Evolve Tweaking Plant Machinery

The Solar power researchers were able to split oxygen and hydrogen from water using the method of photosynthesis. Academicians of University of Cambridge have developed a unique method of harnessing solar power by tweaking the plant’s machinery used for the process of photosynthesis. The researchers were able to split oxygen and hydrogen from water using […]

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EU Exempts China from Import Restrictions; Mulls Restricting US

EU’s move of withdrawing restrictions came in after Brussels and Beijing mull to be more defensive of the U.S solar markets being more cooperative in their own trade policies. European Union (EU)has lifted five-year old protectionism restrictions on solar panel imports from China paving way to protecting the domestic developers and manufacturers from the U.S. […]

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UAE, IRENA Partners to Track Solar Energy Concentration

Collaboration with IRENA and KUST aims to identify solar energy concentrations across the country and keep a check on air pollutants in the country. UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment have collaborated with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KUST)to establish artificial intelligence laboratory in a […]

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Bi-Layer Solar Cell Sets Record for Efficiency

The Solar cell is believed to have converted more than 25 percent of the sun’s energy into electrical power in the category of perovskite-CIGS tandem solar cell. Material scientists from UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a double-layered thin film solar cell that has set efficiency records in generating power from sunlight. The device […]

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