the Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA) said it will provide a big boost to the US economy,
Congressman Thompson, a senior member of the House Ways and means committee, said a 5-year extension of the ITC will give the solar industry time to reach rid parityin most US electricity markets.
Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA) CEO and President Rhone Resch pointed out in a recent statement, he solar Investment Tax credit (ITC) is paying huge dividends for America.
By 2016, we will be generating enough clean solar energy nationwide to power 8 million homes offsetting 45 million metric tons of damaging carbon emissions the equivalent of removing 10 million cars off our roads
and environment and thank all of the original cosponsors for joining him in this important effort to build a clean energy future for America. y any measurement,
32%of all new electric generating capacity came from solar energy in 2014. SEIA CEO Rhone Resch noted, oday, solar is the fastest-growing source of renewable energy in America.
He continued, ongressman Thompson legislation will help to level the playing field with established energy sources, promote competition in the marketplace
The Norsepower Rotor Sail Solution is modernized a version of the Flettner rotor spinning vertical cylinder that harnesses wind power to propel a ship.
and you can produce enough electricity to turn on an LED light. If this seems like small potatoes,
it could one day produce electricity from giant floating power generators that sit on bays or reservoirs,
or from huge rotating machines akin to wind turbines that sit above water The team is already predicting that a scaled-up version,
and far more spores, could produce more power per unit than a wind farm. If you want more details,
and a new pathway to converting biomass to jet fuel was announced by a team from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in partnership with the petroleum giant BP of all people (corporations are people too,
which accounts for the potential energy. The kinetic energy comes in under the surface, as the floats (or lades sway back and forth.
The prototype pictured above is a 250 kilowatt model designed for operation at 30 meters
The tricky part is converting all that motion into electricity. The company behind the wave energy device, Biopower Systems (what else?
and the generator cranks electricity into an undersea cable for transmission to the shore. To pare down maintenance costs,
now that offshore wind energy is taking off, but the pursuit is worth it. One key advantage of wave devices is their relatively low profile above the surface,
That provides much more flexibility for site selection than offshore wind turbines which can easily run into aesthetic obstacles.
The biowave project is supported partly by the Australian Renewable energy Agency (ARENA) and the government of Victoria.
it is inevitable that before long maybe a decade virtually all new electricity generation will be from renewables.
easy to finance, more convenient, popular and clean energy and transport that will get even cheaper over time.
They know that today we spend around twice as much on motor transport fuel as we do on electricity.
battery manufacturers, copper and lithium miners, electronics producers, software developers, electric engine makers, smart grid builders and, of course, solar and wind power manufacturers, installers and financiers.
The integration of magnetoelectronics with ultrathin functional elements such as solar cells light-emitting diodes transistors as well as temperature and tactile sensor arrays will enable autonomous and versatile smart systems with a multitude of sensing
which absorb solar energy in the form of heat and light, since the surface is highly efficient at absorbing, rather than reflecting, both.
This type of solar panel would neither rust nor require much cleaning. There's still a little more R&d to do though,
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
has found a way to harness electricity from living plants, using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers,
which living plants generate electricity. Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
Part of this organic matter is used for plant-growth, but a large part can be used by the plant
the electrons can be harvested as electricity. Research has shown that plant-growth isn compromised by harvesting electricity,
so plants keep on growing while electricity is produced concurrently. Just imagine, a house with a roof full of plant/tree life powering your home.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
and switched their investments towards clean energy? Change is coming, and it about time. The world largest private bank, UBS, is also urging investors to join the clean, renewable energy movement.
They did so with a statement expressing that power plants in Europe might be completely extinct within the next 10 to 20 year (you can read more about that story here.
Firm unveils radical design that claims to be quieter and safer than traditional wind farms By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail. com Published:
00:15 GMT, 19 may 2015 Today wind turbines have colossal blades that spin at speeds of more than 200mph (320 km h).
a bladeless wind turbine that can generate more electricity for less. Scroll down for videocreated by Madrid-based Vortex Bladeless,
The movements is transformed into electricity using an alternator that increases the frequency of the mast movement.
Without the need for blades, the design could reduce manufacturing costs by 53 per cent compared to conventional multi-blade wind turbines, according to the company.
can capture nearly half of the wind power in normal conditions. This is 30 per cent less than normal wind turbines. ver the last four years,
we developed a technology, from an idea to a proof of concept in the wind tunnel,
and from the wind tunnel tests to multiple wind field tests, Suriol told Renewable energy Magazine. urrently we have a Vortex with all the technical milestones developed:
AEHF satellites'Hall thrusters are 4. 5-kilowatt units that use electricity and xenon to produce thrust for moving satellites in space.
#Lightsail launches to test revolutionary solar technology in Earth orbit A small spacecraft designed to test solar sail technology in Earth orbit has taken flight in a successful launch.
conducting electricity and being nearly transparent. The discovery of graphene in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, earned the pair the Nobel prize for Physics and knighthoods.
Could we finally power cars with SOLAR PANELS? Nanowire...Forget the Insane Mode: Elon musk says Tesla's new...
which converts electrical energy into thrust without the need for rocket fuel. Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics'Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando yesterday.
Solar energy provides the electricity to power the microwaves, which means that no propellant is needed. The implications for this could be huge.
the solar cell obtains adequate light, even in the darkness of winter, said Fraunhofer. On the chip are magnetic
was to deposit a solar cell directly on a die, over the uneven metal layers. his is had why we to find a means of filling in
and evening the surface prior to coating it with the solar cell, said engineer Dr Gerd vom Bögel,
Secondly, the chip needed to run from a tiny solar cell, in the winter, and through the night. y keeping both processor and chip extremely small, the latter is extremely frugal.
which approached IMS for on-die solar cells two years ago. Solchip has plans to use them to monitor street traffic
and the opportunities to invest in low-carbon and renewable energy. Investors will need also to set targets to measure progress
it features a solar panel in the flap which charges as the children walk to and from school as well as strips of reflective material,
he removes the solar panel and screws it onto a solar jar that can last up to 12 hours,
me a lot when there is no electricity because I take the lamp and use that for lighting
They also want to expand to other countries in Africa where access to electricity in poorer communities remains a problem m
and converts it to electrical energy reportedly enough to power a small electronic device, like a wearable.
Electricity The power generates thanks to the triboelectric effect which is when certain types of materials can become electrically charged through contact and friction with another material in this case,
On the one hand, breakthroughs in Li-ion designs and construction are responsible for the Tesla Model S, new installations, green energy research,
#This cloudy-day black silicon solar cell can hit a record 22.1%efficiency When most people think of solar power,
theye usually thinking of warmer climates with lots of sun . Despite all the huge advances solar has made in recent years,
or black, solar cell. They accomplished this by overlaying a thin, passivating film on the nanostructures by a process known as atomic layer deposition,
Black solar cells work really well on cloudy days. his is an advantage particularly in the north,
black cells generate considerably more electricity than traditional cells, even though both cells have identical efficiency values. sing the aforementioned process,
And thanks to the inherent properties of black solar cells, they can capture solar radiation at low angles,
generating more electricity over the full duration of a day as compared with traditional cells. ur record cells were fabricated using p-type silicon,
It can also be configured to store potential energy in the positions of objects inside its bore,
and then amplify the kinetic energy of an incoming particle by converting that potential energy into a larger kinetic energy added to an exiting object.
and delivers vibrant color Light-emitting diodes (LEDS) are prevalent in everything from digital clocks to solar panels, traffic lights, electronic banners and signs, Christmas decorations,
#Evaporation engines using artificial muscles made from bacteria A team of researchers from the US have created evaporation-driven engines that can power common tasks like locomotion and electricity generation.
The engines are able to power an electricity generator to light up LEDS and drive a miniature car as the water evaporates please see the video on this page.
Places where access to electricity is limited to non-exist, would find this technology truly magnificent t
and today most solar cells are based on silicon. In theory, the success with simple transistors implies that this material could also help continue advances in solar cells.
What most exciting here after graphene has saturated headline space for so long, is that there was only a few months needed to take this purely theoretical 2d substance from a computer simulation to practical, working transistors.
#New material combines photons for big solar energy gains An innovative new approach to solar energy from University of California Riverside could dramatically increase the amount of light available to contemporary solar panel designs.
Rather than widening the absorption spectrum of the solar panels themselves, this new study looked at taking currently inaccessible infrared light and turning it into visible light.
They hope that by directing this newly fabricated light onto conventional solar panels, the efficiency of solar power could be improved greatly, for an affordable price.
Infrared light currently passes straight through most silicon solar cell technologies representing a substantial inefficiency in generating electricity from sunlight.
Much of solar research has worked to directly convert infrared light to electricity, but such technologies change the transistor design,
and thus the manufacturing process for solar panels. Their impacts tend to be limited by cost concerns, more than anything else.
These researchers chose to accept the absorptive abilities of current silicon transistors, and instead looked to make the light conform to the panels.
They created an all-new hybrid material that takes two photons of 980-nanometer infrared light shone onto it and p convertsthem into one photon of 550-nanometer orange yellow light.
more importantly, it exists in a form that existing solar panels can absorb. By changing the incoming sunlight into silicon favorite for absorption,
the material could improve solar panel efficiency by as much as 30%.%And while the costs of the material itself are known not yet,
but isn capable of directly passing it into the electricity generating process. Instead, the light moves on to the organic phase of the material,
The resulting, lower-wavelength photons can move on to be absorbed by the transistors of the solar panel as normal,
The overall costs of solar power lie much more in installation, maintenance, and land use costs than in the panels themselves;
but could still improve the affordability of solar power. Infrared radiation accounts for an enormous amount of the energy in direct sunlight,
and it is currently being missed by every solar panel outside of a research laboratory. In general, this sort of research into the manipulation of light could allow a wider rollout of solar power around the world.
Plenty of raw energy is falling on highly clouded days, but the distribution of that energy through the spectrum is different,
and harder for modern solar panels to turn into power. Infrared radiation moves through and overcast sky quite well
but none is so direct as solar power. Energy will be one of the defining issues of the next few decades,
Wind turbines, especially offshore, could also benefit: the advantages of self healing materials far out to sea is clear. asically, any industry
and calculate the best sailing route based on available wind energy. Terje Lade manager of Lade AS told Foxnews. com that the Vindskip concept is being tested using wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics.
which it describes as its Wind power System. Lade told Foxnews. com that the Vindskip development project will be finished by the fourth quarter of 2015
as it would allow military members to cut off electricity supplies to enemy parties while keeping civilians out of the melee.
Researchers say that this could be useful in the creation of rust-free solar panels that capture the sun energy
and don have to be cleaned as often. ome potential applications for anti-icing surfaces include protection of aerofoils, power transmission lines,
Nanowires are extremely thin nanocrystal threads used in the development of new electronic components like transistors and solar cells.
"Currently, the most common nanofiber manufacturing technique, called electrospinning, uses high-voltage electricity and specially designed equipment to produce the polymer strings.
#New record efficiency for black silicon solar cells Researchers at the University of Aalto, Finland have broken the efficiency record for black silicon solar cells a type of cell that can gather sunlight even from tight
allowing solar cells that use it to trap light even when it's coming from very low angles.
This could be a good way to increase the yield of solar cells throughout the day
as they don't need the antireflection coatings used by many other types of solar cells. The main issue that has stifled the progress of black silicon cells is something known as carrier recombination.
When a photon hits a silicon atom inside a solar cell, the excess energy frees up an electron that is later used to generate electricity.
According the company, the new piezoelectric polymer converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency,
Both are based on the principle of using mechanical strain to generate electricity and are used in electronics to provide power in specialized applications, such as vibration and pressure sensors.
"The fuel was created by Audi's project partner Global Bioenergies, in France. In late 2014, Global Bioenergies started up the fermentation unit for a pilot program to produce gaseous isobutane from renewable biomass sugars such as corn-derived glucose.
Gaseous isobutane is a sort of raw material for the petrochemical industry that can then be refined into a variety of plastics, fuels and other applications.
"says Global Bioenergies CEO Marc Delcourt.""It is the first time that we have produced real gasoline from plants."
"says Rick Bockrath, vice president for chemical engineering at Global Bioenergies.""It's basically how we're moving away from an oil-based economy towards something that has a renewable, sustainable future to it."
"Audi and Global Bioenergies hope to tweak the production process in the future so that biomass is required no longer
and e-benzin can be created using only water, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and sunlight. We saw a similar project in Europe in 2014 that sought to make jet fuel.
At this point, the reactor exposes the air to electrical discharges separating nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) from the atmospheric air and transforming it into nitrous oxide (N2o),
and situations where access to electricity and resources are scarce. ny type of organic material can be the source of bacteria for the bacterial metabolism,
including local wastewater, biomass or watersheds. Source: Binghamton Universit a
#3d-printed flutes hit the right notes Researchers at Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) have created a number of 3d-printed custom flutes that can play microtonal tunings otherwise unachievable with standard flutes,
What happens here is that a tiny amount of electricity causes the charge carriers to deflect via a phenomenon called the Lorentz force,
#New energy cell can store up solar energy for release at night A photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) is a special type of solar cell that gathers the Sun's energy
and transforms it into either electricity or chemical energy used to split water and produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells.
In an advance that could help this clean energy source play a stronger role within the smart grid, researchers at the University of Texas,
Arlington have found a way to store the electricity generated by a PEC cell for extended periods of time
and allow electricity to be delivered around the clock. Currently the electricity generated by a PEC cell could not be stored effectively,
as the electrons would quickly"disappear"into a lower energy state. This meant that these cells were not a viable solution for a clean energy grid,
as the electricity had to be used very shortly after being produced. That is, on sunny days, at a time when standard PV panels would already be producing energy at full tilt.
Now, researchers Fuqiang Liu and colleagues have created a PEC cell that includes a specially designed photoelectrode (the component that converts incoming photons into electrons.
Unlike previous designs, their hybrid tungsten trioxide/titanium dioxide (WO3/Tio2) photoelectrode can store electrons effectively for long periods of time,
paving the way for PEC cells to play a bigger role within a smart energy grid.
"We have demonstrated simultaneously reversible storage of both solar energy and electrons in the cell,"says lead author of the paper Dong Liu."
"Release of the stored electrons under dark conditions continues solar energy storage, thus allowing for continuous storage around the clock."
While there's a healthy selection of compact solar panels to keep our mobile gadgets charged up light permitting the vast majority of these are either too small to be effective or too bulky for carting around.
while the actual solar panels are only 1. 5 mm thick. But Solar Paper has more going for it than just its form factor.
But thanks to a new Kickstarter project you may not have to worry about your smartphone dying before the electricity comes back on.
and the difference in temperature generates the electricity (though the device can also be used to sterilize water).
The semiconductor device converts the temperature gradient (the heat of the candle against the coolness of the water) into electricity.
constant and usable flow of electricity is generated without any special setup, as long as there's a candle in the home.
Both have been utilized individually by researchers to boost sunlight conversion to electrical current in solar cells, and to increase the efficacy of electrically-generated light.
which then super-efficiently convert electricity to light. Merging these two materials has solved also the problem of self-absorption that occurs
#Smart low-carbon Solcer House generates more electricity that it uses A Welsh university claims to have built the UK first low-cost, low-carbon, energy-positive house.
renewable energy supply and storing energy for later use. Electricity is imported also from the grid when required and exported to the grid
when there is a surplus. Low-carbon cement was used for the construction of the Solcer House.
Electricity is generated by way of a 4. 3 kwp glazed photovoltaic solar panel array. This is fully integrated into the south-facing roof of the house
Electricity generated and stored is used to power the heating, ventilation, hot water system and household appliances. The Solcer House took 16 weeks to build
and Wind Incentives Permanent President Obama just unveiled a $3. 99 trillion budget for 2016 that asks Congress for a permanent extension of tax credits for the solar and wind industry.
In a section titled Improving Incentives for Research and Clean energy the 2016 budget proposal includes a request for $7. 4 billion for clean energy technologies along with a shopping list of funding and incentives for the renewable sector
and nuclear power industries. Although the Republican-controlled Senate and House will not approve this budget or enact permanent extensions of the tax credits the proposal signals that the administration will support some preservation of the solar Investment Tax credit (ITC) and the wind power Production Tax credit (PTC).
The ITC a tax credit of 30 percent of the cost of solar installations is slated to step down to 10 percent at the end of 2016.
$44 million to establish a 10-megawatt scale pilot Supercritical Transformational Electric power facility Subsurface Engineering:
including R&d for transformational clean energy technologies $907. 6 million for nuclear energy for R&d in advanced reactor
as well as technical support for the licensing of small modular reactors $560 million for fossil energy R&d to advance carbon capture
and storage and natural gas technologies $270. 1 million for electricity delivery and energy reliability grid modernization activities $257 million for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to operate
About three-fifths of those Hawaiian solar systems use microinverters from Enphase, the company that leads the market for DC-to-AC devices that sit at the solar panels themselves, rather than in one big box next to the power meter.
Third-party solar provider Solarcity, for example, has worked with HECO and Department of energy researchers to show that smart inverter technologies can allow more solar per circuit--an important concession for HECO,
requiring careful management of just how much electricity is being used to receive and respond to the constant signals being passed back and forth amongst meshed devices.
but can effectively use that electricity to run digital devices, at least not without expensive alterations.
which solar energy still depends. In addition, Asian rivals have made inroads into SMA's markets, putting pressure on equipment prices and profit margins.
Former Opponent Touts Nuclear power at Chicago Event Not too long ago, Carol Browner would have sided with the activists clad in white hazmat suits protesting nuclear power outside the City Club's lunch Tuesday in downtown Chicago.
a speaker touting the benefits of nuclear power. With 6 percent of nuclear power in the U s. under financial threat, nuclear proponents are attempting to win over environmental activists.
Who better to send the message that nuclear power is a"clean"form of power and worth saving than Browner
who changed her mind and began advocating for nuclear power in 2011. Washington post: White house Opens Up Southern Atlantic coast to Offshore Drilling The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a politically fraught plan for allowing oil drilling in U s. coastal waters,
announcing steps to open parts of the southeastern U s. coastline for oil leasing while imposing new restrictions on environmentally fragile waters off Alaska North Slope.
Researchers Tout Solar panels Made With erovskitemineral A new generation of solar panels made from a mineral called perovskite has the potential to convert solar energy into household electricity more cheaply than ever before, according to a study from Britain Exeter University.
they can both shade windowsnd at the same time produce electricity, he said e
#The Case for Long-Duration Storage: Net Electricity Load in Calif. Is 5 Years Ahead of Schedule On January 11, 2015, a rather unremarkable Sunday earlier this month,
the California Independent System Operator daily duck curve was approximately 1, 500 megawatts below where it is projected to be in 2020.
That means that CAISO is operating the grid, this month, at net load (that is the system demand less solar and wind generation) more than five years ahead of forecast.
California needs more energy storage to match the duck curve Experiencing this net load years ahead of the CAISO forecast has placed not the California grid in crisis. The state's grid has sufficient flexibility today to accommodate the rapid rise of solar power,
Governor Jerry brown used his 2015 inauguration speech to call for a 50 percent renewable energy future in California.
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
The CPUC can pull out the playbook that bestowed California with an abundance of solar energy and use it again with energy storage.
Scale drives cost reduction for storage We are already witnessing the impact of manufacturing scale on cost for lithium-ion batteries being bid into the electricity market.
As solar energy production drops off, CAISO forecasts a 14,000-megawatt resource ramp in 2020 on that date.
we need to absorb gigawatt-hours'worth of midday solar energy for reuse later in the day or the week.
we have the abundant solar and wind resources, the innovative companies, and the open energy storage procurement proceeding that can, at a modest scale, kick-start the long-duration energy storage market.
In the last week, the U k. Renewable energy Association has launched a new trade body dedicated to commercializing energy storage.
The U k. Electricity Storage Network is expecting a Minister from the Department of energy and Climate change (DECC) to participate in its annual meeting.
Anthony Price, director of the Electricity Storage Network, explains: The UK electricity and natural gas regulator Ofgem has calculated that it will cost £50 billion $76 billion to rewire Britain.
This will be to provide flexibility in the grid and allow the integration of more renewables,
Price organization is lobbying for a minimum 2, 000 megawatts of new network-connected electricity storage by the year 2020.
REDT is developing a vanadium redox flow battery for storing wind and wave power in Scotland. And Isentropic is building a demonstration project for its cryogenic energy storage technology.
SMA launched its Sunny Boy Smart energy PV inverter and battery system. Sharp followed suit at the end of last year by offering a solar-and-storage device that uses Samsung batteries.
said Frank Gordon of the newly launched energy storage section of the U k. Renewable energy Association.""The U k. is home to one of the only electric vehicle battery plants in the world, the Nissan plant in Tyneside.
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