SolarCity deployed a record 78 MW during the third quarter of 2013, and expects to deploy more in the fourth quarter SolarCity Corp. (San Mateo, California, U.S.) reports that its deployments of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems increased ...
Tags: PV, solar photovoltaic
Traditionally employed to make LEDs, sapphire substrates now are being used by Apple and other smartphone vendors as covers for camera lenses and home buttons, contributing to a rapid growth in sapphire demand, according to IHS. Demand ...
Official data showed on Monday that China's electricity consumption, a common indicator of economic activity, rose 10.4 percent year on year in September. The growth, though lower than August's 13.7-percent rise, accelerated from the ...
Tags: Power Consumption, Energy
The surging shale energy output in recent years has been centering in North America, but it can also happen in other places like China, a U.S. energy expert said Friday. Shale gas will come to play a more important role in China's energy ...
Tags: Shale Gas, shale energy
Vehicle sales in China showed unexpectedly robust growth in September as Japanese producers continued to recover from anti-Japanese sentiment last year, which was tied to a territorial dispute between the two countries. Vehicle sales ...
Tags: Automobile, Passenger Car
The top executive of one of the world's biggest mining drilling companies said he believes the industry has bottomed out, but that he doesn't expect a return to peak cycle levels soon. Moreover, there has been "a fundamental shift in what ...
Tags: mining drilling, Metallurgy
U.S. refiners are selling more fuel abroad than ever before, effectively exporting the American energy boom to the four corners of the world. As crude production soars in places like the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas, U.S. refiners ...
Tags: U.S.refiners, Mineral
Analysing big data in order to make improvements is now the "normal way of working" for retailer John Lewis, enabling data from many different places to be used in order to improve online customer service. That's what Aleem Cummins, ...
Tags: John Lewis, Splunk
With home prices and household formations rising and household balance sheets healing, the ongoing housing recovery is expected to gain momentum next year even as several challenges remain, according to economists who participated in the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the bike-loving Netherlands, electric bicycles now account for one-third of bicycle spending. The e-bike is encroaching on the Vespa in Rome, and multiplying on the steep roads of Lausanne. Globally, the production of electric bicycles ...
Tags: Electric Bikes, Bicycles
Narrowing propane price spreads between the US and international markets are poised to shrink further as terminal developers, such as Enterprise Products Partners, advance plans to increase the nation's liquefied petroleum gas export ...
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Macroblock, Nuvoton Technology, On-Bright Electronics, Pixart Imaging and Weltrend Semiconductor all expect to post sequential growth in September revenues, buoyed by a pull-in of orders coming from ...
Tags: Electronics, Semiconductor, LED bulbs
DHL Express has moved to meet the significant increase in shipments passing through its Brisbane Gateway by unveiling a brand new $16 million purpose-built facility. With double-digit increase in shipments through the Brisbane Gateway the ...
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
The propane industry has set its sights on that symbol of American middle-class achievement: the lawn mower. Blame it in part on the natural-gas drilling boom, which has left distributors scrambling to find new ways to increase demand for ...
Tags: Lawn Mowers, Tools, Hardware, propane