Everywhere you look, you see lithium-ion batteries. They’re in your laptop, your cell phone, your power tools, maybe even your car. Lithium-ion battery research accounts for about 95% of all battery research and development, which has resulted in countless improvements to the technology. But lithium-ion batteries can only go so far. The Joint Center for … Continue reading The future of batteries
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Lithium-ion batteries successfully pass ageing test
The BPT-S 5 Hybrid from Bosch uses lithium-ion batteries, which continue after years of intensive use to reliably provide households with electricity from its own PV system without the need for maintenance. This has now been proven through ageing tests, which have been carried out by the independent Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives … Continue reading Lithium-ion batteries successfully pass ageing test
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Electric Vehicle Manufacturers Will Pursue New Revenue Streams Beyond Vehicle Sales in 2014
The global electric vehicle (EV) industry is expected to expand significantly in 2014. The selection of models will increase, as luxury automakers Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo will all introduce their first EVs and more affordable EV options are introduced by Kia, Mahindra, Skoda, and Volkswagen. According to a new white paper from … Continue reading Electric Vehicle Manufacturers Will Pursue New Revenue Streams Beyond Vehicle Sales in 2014
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Advanced Batteries and the Coming Boom in the Global Lithium Ion Market
First developed in the late 1980s as an energy storage solution for consumer electronics devices, lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries have since grabbed majority market share in a number of battery applications, including electric vehicles, stationary energy storage, portable devices, and power tools.
Continue readingCustomers Can Be Confident in Choosing OPEL Solar Trackers
The versatility of the solar trackers allows the use of any solar panels, flat panel or concentrated panels, currently being deployed on commercial and utility scale projects.
Continue readingWind energy Gamesa in India
Besides localising, Gamesa is also creating a market where none exists. Kymal is looking at wind turbines that were installed in the 1990s.
Continue readingMasdar shelves world?s first solar power export project
Masdar shelved plans for the world?s first building that makes more energy than it consumes, a year after the financial crisis forced the Abu Dhabi company to step back from setting up the first carbon-neutral city.
Continue readingIU to take lead in DOE-funded Lake Erie offshore wind power study
A range of ground-based instrumentation, remote sensing and an unmanned aerial vehicle will provide a three-dimensional view of wind characteristics across temporal and spatial scales relevant to wind energy.
Continue readingAcciona Energy inaugurates Lameque Wind Energy Project in Canada
The Lameque Wind Power Project is Acciona Energy’s fourth wind farm in Canada and the first in the country to employ Acciona Windpower wind turbines.
Continue readingWind energy Vestas – Leading the Dow Jones Sustainability index
Among the other listed companies in the Renewable Energy Equipment industry are First Solar from the USA and runner-up Gamesa CT from Spain.
Continue readingSolar energy for electric vehicles
Kyocera solar power modules used for an electric car and bike charging station in southern Germany.
Continue readingSpanish Concentrating Solar Thermal Power ? boom or bust?
The Spanish concentrated solar thermal association, Protermosolar, has announced that 4293 square kilometres of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants (equivalent to 1% of Spain’s territory) could supply the country.
Continue readingBreakthrough in Decreasing the Cost of Photovoltaic Energy Production
?The FUSION technology significantly improved the energy yield of the PV modules we tested,? says Bill Marion, Section Supervisor and Project Manager of the Performance and Reliability R&D facility at NREL.
Continue readingClouds’ effects on solar power
The U.S. Department of Energy?s NREL has produced and made available a rich data set showing what happens, second-by-second, when clouds pass over a solar energy installation.
Continue readingVictorian Premier Ted Baillieu wages war on clean energy
Will NSW?s Liberal-National state government follow its Victorian colleagues and block the development of wind energy in the state?
Continue readingTurkey’s wind energy reached 1,600 megawatts
Wind power plant inaugurated in Akhisar. There are 72 wind farm plants across Turkey. So far, 1.6 billion euro has been invested in these wind turbines.
Continue readingWind Energy Services Company (WES) Brings Operational and Engineering Managers Onboard
Wind Energy Services Company (WES) is a provider of composite repair and maintenance services to wind farm operators and OEMs.
Continue readingPattern Energy, Samsung acquire wind energy project in Ontario from Acciona
Pattern Energy Group LP partnered with Samsung Renewable Energy to acquire the Armow wind farm project in Ontario from Acciona
Continue readingUniversity of Delaware wins $9.1 million in advanced solar power research grants
The University of Delaware has won $9.1 million for solar energy research and development through the SunShot Initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Continue readingREpower receives wind energy order to deliver seven public wind farm plants
Wind power contracts for delivery of a total of 47 wind turbines to Northern Friesland.
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