Governor Cuomo Announces Completion of $9.2 Million Energy Efficiency Project at Purchase College New York State Governor, August 15, 2016 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the completion of a New York Power Authority $9.2 million energy efficiency project that will save SUNY Purchase College about $400,000 in annual energy costs. The completion of this … Read more
Chernobyl’s Atomic Wasteland May Be Reborn With Solar Energy Bloomberg, July 26, 2016 Ukraine’s looking toward the sun to put a radioactive wasteland back into business. Thirty years after atomic fallout from the Chernobyl meltdown rendered an area the size of Luxembourg uninhabitable for centuries, Ukraine is seeking investors to develop solar power near the … Read more
Mark D’Antonio, ERS, for Zondits This is the first in a multi-part series about solar PV systems that will cover several topics, including approaches to and considerations of going solar, actual installation examples, performance, details of system components, the economics thereof, and what is going on in the market. According to the Solar Energy Information … Read more
‘The future of farming’ The Australian Driving across the wide saltbush plains towards Port Augusta, north of Adelaide, the first thing a visitor notices on the horizon is the sky-piercing solar tower of Sundrop Farms. Only when you get close do you see the 24,000 mirrors arrayed at its base, each of them beaming the … Read more
Germany had so much renewable energy on Sunday that it had to pay people to use electricity QZ, May 10, 2016 On Sunday, May 8, Germany hit a new high in renewable energy generation. Thanks to a sunny and windy day, at one point around 1pm the country’s solar, wind, hydro and biomass plants were … Read more
Adeline Lui, AESP Strategies The City of Las Vegas will go 100 percent renewable next year and become the first major U.S. city to do so. In this exclusive interview with their Director of Planning and Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Perrigo, he reveals how the City will achieve this target. AESP: Las Vegas would be the first … Read more
Jim Paull for Zondits It seemed like a good idea at the time. The time was a decade ago. Solar, once a niche industry, was exploding across the world. Billions of dollars were flowing into hundreds of solar start-ups. Technology hype was at its zenith. But resources were also being strained. The price of silicon, … Read more
Dangerous malware discovered in EU energy company IT News, July 15, 2016 A new piece of sophisticated malware has been discovered on the networks of an unnamed European energy company with what researchers believe is the potential to shut down an energy grid. [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#c4a319″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst at … Read more
Conversion efficiency of 18.2 percent achieved using perovskite solar cells Phys, July 13, 2016 A research group led by Liyuan Han, a leader of the Photovoltaic Materials Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), achieved energy conversion efficiency exceeding 18% using standard size (1 cm2) perovskite solar cells for the first time in the world. … Read more
USDA to Help 821 Rural Small Businesses Boost Renewable Energy Use, Save on Energy Costs USDA, July 11, 2016 [bctt tweet=”USDA is providing $43.2 million in loan guarantees and $11.6 million in grants through REAP.” username=”ZonditsEE”] [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”18″ bg_color=”#1e73be” txt_color=”#ffffff”]Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for 821 projects across the nation that … Read more