Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
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The European Commission is to report by 2017 if governments should be required to notify it of planned gas, oil and coal extraction projects and small renewable energy projects under amended EU rules adopted late Thursday by EU ministers ...
A UK-based company is developing solar-cell technology that could help advance the market for integrating solar energy-harvesting glass into commercial buildings. Oxford Photovoltaics (PV) -- co-founded by Oxford University physicist ...
Introduction A glass material becomes smart glass when it is coated or laminated with some smart material or when sensors or other electronics are embedded into it. Smart glass has found used in buildings as well as in vehicles. This ...
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. Falling product costs will help to propel the market for LED-based luminaires to some $25 billion in 2023, up more than a factor of 12 from today’s figure of $2 billion and equivalent to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 ...
China was the largest solar market in the world in 2013, besting a hotly contested field that included Japan, the US and Germany, and China-based manufacturer Yingli Green Energy was also the globe's foremost supplier of solar modules for ...
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When it comes to graphene and photovoltaics, for the most part it's only been a story about replacing the indium tin oxide (ITO) used as the transparent electrodes of organic solar cells. But last year Spanish researchers in collaboration ...
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Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
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Despite efforts from some US states to re-evaluate their net-energy metering (NEM) policies, the impact of any potential changes on the US photovoltaics (PV) industry is expected to be negligible in 2014, according to IHS. "States ...
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I f you take the main road east out of Moriarty,N.M.,turn south at a sign advertising glider rides,and then swing east again past the sailplanes ornamenting a two-runway airport,you will see hangar No.76,the headquarters of Titan ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has signed a ...
Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel ...
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All new electricity generation in Australia will come from renewable energy through 2020, according to a new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) [PDF]. The bulk of the new power will be wind, with large-scale scale ...
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