The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has launched an initiative to build an open-source database of real-world performance from thousands of solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities throughout the United States. As part of the Department’s SunShot Initiative, the Open Solar Performance and Reliability Clearinghouse (O-SPaRC) will help financiers evaluate the production risk of operational ...
Wind energy industry keeps growing in 2012 according to report just released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). Record installations in the United States and Europe led global installations of 44.8 GW of new wind power globally in 2012, 10% more than was installed in 2011. Global installed capacity has now reached 282.5 GW, ...
For the first time since the renewable energy boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world’s installed photovoltaic (PV) panels last year probably surpassed the amount of energy going into fabricating more modules, according to Michael Dale, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP). With continued technological advances, the ...
With the world putting an increasing focus on geothermal power, Enel Green Power is leading the way in developing the energy source with a series of cutting-edge projects in Italy, North and South America A recent study conducted by American research and consultancy firm Pike Research has shown that over the last few years the ...
Installed geothermal power capacity grew by 5% or 147.05MW in the United States since GEA’s last survey in March 2012. Seven geothermal projects became operational in 2012, including the first coproduction plant. Additionally, the first hybrid solar-geothermal plant went online this year, although no new geothermal capacity was added at this plant. There are currently ...
New Record for Thin-Film Solar PV Efficiency First Solar, Inc. has set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell conversion efficiency, achieving 18.7 percent cell efficiency in tests confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The cell was constructed at the Company’s Perrysburg, Ohio factory and ...
Volkswagen has recently “powered up” the largest single PV installation at an automotive manufacturing facility in the United States and the biggest solar installation in the state of Tennessee. At a dedication ceremony here, dignitaries today flipped a giant light switch to signal the official opening of the “Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park”, built on Volkswagen’s ...