Industrial Chimera or Evolutionary Leap: Perovskite Solar Cells and Cheap, Ubiquitous Solar Energy
Gains in the energy conversion efficiency of a new class of solar photovoltaic (PV) materials – perovskites – are being made at the fastest...
Perovskite Solar Cell Pioneers Search for the Elusive “Killer App”
Cheap to fabricate and capable of being applied to practically any surface, or material, of nearly any form, shape or size, scientists and researching...
Social Equity-Minded Solar Energy Entrepreneurs Catch Blockchain Fever
Blockchain fever appears to have broken out among social enterprise-oriented solar energy entrepreneurs and start-ups. At least three potentially seminal events recently took place in...
The Sun Rises on Japan’s Solar-Powered Smart Communities
Smart communities fueled by solar energy and the latest in advanced energy storage and smart microgrid technologies are taking root and beginning to expand...
A Fly’s Compound Eyes Lead to Breakthrough in Production of Solar PV Perovskites
We humans have looked around us and received inspiration from the natural world throughout the course of our evolution. Many such observations have led...
Strauss Energy’s Solar Roof Tiles Light Up a School, Students’ Lives in Kenya
So-called “building integrated (solar) photovoltaic (BIPV)” energy technology is considered a keystone of distributed solar and renewable energy proponents’ grand vision of economies and...
Pico-Scale Solar for Pico-Rural Growth in Africa
For the so called Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in developing countries, energy needs can be quite simple. In predominantly rural communities, household power...
Solar-Storage Mini-Grid Makes an Impact at Africa’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Water, energy and food – the three are inextricably intertwined and increasingly challenging to access or provide on a basis that’s sustainable economically, environmentally...
Solar DAO Launches the World’s First Digital Autonomous Closed-End Solar Investment Fund
A burst of evolutionary growth and diversification is taking place in blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and systems architectural frameworks as pioneering developers build upon, modify and...
Has Oracle Come Up with the “Holy Grail” of Digital, Distributed, “Green” Energy Resource...
Some of the world’s largest multinational, high-tech corporations continue to invest heavily to expand their presence across the rapidly transforming power and energy sector....
RMI Business Renewables Center Aims to Boost US Corporate Solar, Wind Energy Purchases with...
Investing in and making use of emissions-free, local renewable energy resources is one of the highest profile and most significant ways leading corporations have...
Machine-Learning Solar Tracking Technology Nudges PV Field Production Nearer Optimum Levels
Solar energy products and services developers and vendors continue to leverage the latest in distributed information and communications technology (ICT) in bids to drive...
