Crescent Dunes Solar Energy, a 110 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) electricity plant, began full operation in February, according to its press release . Crescent Dunes uses an energy Continue Reading
Driving forward in the race for highly efficient solar cells, First Solar says it has converted 22.1 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity using experimental cells made from Continue Reading
Inspired by the way palm trees move in high winds, a group of researchers at the University of Virginia and Sandia National Laboratory are developing an extremely long wind turbine Continue Reading
A top Texas power regulator, a grid operator and two corporate executives focused much of their panel discussion Thursday at IHS CERAWeek on distributed generation, agreeing that a “wave” of Continue Reading
A wind farm here, along the River Trent, cranks out enough clean electricity to power as many as 57,000 homes. Monitored remotely, the windmills, 34 turbines each about 400 feet Continue Reading
Times are tough for oilfield services companies. Rigzone has spent much of the last year reporting on how the industry downturn has affected many of the larger oilfield engineers and Continue Reading
Norwegian energy company Statoil announced the launch of a new $200 million investment fund to help drive a strong renewable energy growth strategy. “The transition to a low carbon society Continue Reading
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. has introduced the newest addition to its K2 family—a 3-volt (3V), 3,000-farad ultracapacitor cell, now available in sample quantities. With 31% higher power than Maxwell’s leading 2.7-volt, Continue Reading
A few days before German Chancellor Andrea Merkel threw the switch to power on the Wendelstein WX-7 fusion torus, Randell Mills demonstrated working version of Brilliant Light (formerly Blacklight) Power’s Continue Reading
The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar Continue Reading
