ARPA-E Deputy Director Cheryl Martin today announced $27 million in funding from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices ...
ARPA-E deputy director Cheryl Martin has announced $27m in funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
As one of four winners in the first round of Sunidarity initiative awards (in December 2012), Paris-based Fondation Énergies pour le Monde (Energy for the World Foundation) has just finished installing a concentrator photovoltaic ...
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DFIG converters are forecast to outpace full-conversion products by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.6 percent from 2012 to 2017, reaching more than 9,900 units shipped in 2017. Three major factors are hindering the sales of ...
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Green development is facing a series of obstacles, as Jiang Xueqing reports in Changchun. Seven years after China's Renewable Energy Law took effect in January 2006, renewable energy companies are making huge contributions to the ...
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A Pioneering solar technology company which attracted significant funding earlier this year to develop a hybrid Solar PV-T panel, is embarking upon its final journey that will help strengthen the North East's position on the national ...
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Ikea said it will incorporate geothermal technology at its upcoming 359,000-square-foot Merriam, Kan., store, its second in the United States to use the renewable energy source to heat and cool operations. The home furnishings giant said ...
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Advanced test instrumentation has helped a UK-based solar PV specialist to significantly improve the electricity supply on two off-grid Hebridean Islands. Renewables specialist Wind & Sun Ltd. has recently completed two new innovative ...
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During the past decade the telecommunication industry has seen a sea of change occurring all over the world with the introduction of new and more efficient technologies which help in a more quality driven communication between people who ...
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Would you drink GM wine? Could neonics on retail nursery stock be to blame? California raisin grape production up, table olives lower It is utterly amazing how underwater turbines that move water to millions of acres of productive ...
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We all remember our school textbooks, which had chapters dedicated to non-conventional sources of energy. Today, those sources play an important role in our lives at an age where we are desperately looking to reduce our dependence on fossil ...
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GE Global Research—the technology development arm of the General Electric Co.—discussed research that, it believes, could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Using high-performance computing (HPC) to ...
The market for semiconductors used in industrial electronics applications relished a better-than-expected first quarter as macroeconomic headwinds turned out to be less severe than initially feared, according to the latest Industrial ...
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"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
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That renewable energy is the future of power production is crystal clear, but so too may be energy storage. Researchers at Penn State's Materials Research Institute are developing a thin and flexible glass, about one-tenth the thickness ...
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