Category: Energy

July 25, 2024

From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings’ increasing energy consumption is a critical problem. Currently, heat is produced by burning fossil fuels such […]

July 23, 2024

Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable. Solar panels made of perovskites may eventually play an important role in […]

July 10, 2024

Silicon dominates the current commercial solar cell industry, offering an attractive combination of low cost, high efficiency and long lifespan. But metal halide perovskites present a promising alternative, as researchers have repeatedly proven at The University of Toledo’s Wright Center for Photovoltaics […]

June 28, 2024

NorSun has selected Tulsa, Oklahoma, for its first U.S.-based factory. The investment is set at $620 million in a new 5 GW silicon ingot and solar wafer manufacturing facility. The expansion, which was facilitated by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce […]

June 26, 2024

Electrification of the U.S. industry will grow from 30 percent to 45 percent by 2030, a 50 percent increase, according to a new report from Schneider Electric. In tandem with these trends, the company plans to upgrade, modernize, and maintain […]

June 21, 2024

Peter Dutton has announced that under a Coalition government, seven nuclear power stations would be built around the country over the next 15 years. Experts have declared nuclear power would be expensive and slow to build. But what might happen to energy prices […]

June 17, 2024

Total investment in such energy – defined as the transmission of solar energy harvested in space for terrestrial use cases – will then grow again to $36.1bn by 2035, estimates the market analyst. The increase, in spending by space vendors […]

June 12, 2024

In the thriving photovoltaic industry, all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) are gaining attention for their mechanical flexibility, lightweight design, and ability to be printed at low temperatures. However, the complex molecular structures of the polymer materials in all-PSCs pose challenges in […]

June 11, 2024

The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That’s why a team of Concordia researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no carbon emissions but removes carbon as […]

May 31, 2024

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation […]

May 24, 2024

The design of battery technologies with increasingly longer lifespans could help to meet the growing needs of the electronics and automotive industry. Lithium (Li) batteries are the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Thus, devising strategies that can increase their […]

May 23, 2024

Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The $200 million plant in Shanghai’s Lingang pilot free trade zone will be the first Tesla […]

May 8, 2024

Finding reliable, eco-friendly power sources is crucial as our world grapples with increasing energy needs and the urgent call to combat climate change. Solar energy offers one solution, with scientists devising ever more efficient materials for capturing sunlight. Perovskite solar […]

April 30, 2024

Decarbonization is a pressing global issue. The increasing frequency of environmental disruptions has underscored the urgent need to mitigate the impacts of global warming and climate change. Despite over 140 countries aiming for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, United Nations […]

April 29, 2024

A research group led Prof. Fei Wei and Chenxi Zhang in Tsinghua University has published a perspective paper that evaluates the progression from deep-rooted fossil-fuel-dependent technologies to innovative strategies aimed at carbon neutrality, with a specific focus on the formulation […]

April 26, 2024

FirstElement Fuel will open what it is calling the world’s first heavy-duty high-flow hydrogen fueling facility to the public in May. The station is the first of about a dozen commercial hydrogen truck fueling locations the company has planned. “This […]

April 24, 2024

A group of seven U.S. solar manufacturers — Convalt Energy, First Solar, Meyer Burger, Mission Solar, Qcells, REC Silicon, and Swift Solar — are banding together to seek tariffs on allegedly unfairly traded solar imports from several Southeast Asian countries. […]

April 11, 2024

Oil will need to be closely watched in the coming months to ensure “a sound and sustainable market balance” during an expected surge in demand, OPEC said in its monthly oil market report. The producers group maintained its bullish forecasts […]

April 8, 2024

As green hydrogen gains attention as a future clean energy carrier, the question of which renewable energy to utilize as an energy source becomes increasingly important. Among them, solar energy has the advantage of being available everywhere on Earth, with […]

April 8, 2024

The clean energy transition cannot happen without critical minerals. The United States needs to address three key supply chain challenges to meet its ambitions for industry, citizens, and the economy as a whole. These are: China’s supply chain dominance – […]