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If you care about the world’s transition to clean power, then you should pay attention to the emerging market for energy storage.…
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Sometimes, it just takes a Google search to overcome a big technical hurdle in a lab. OK, so it didn’t quite happen…
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If your home won’t fit more windows or a skylight, perhaps this is the next best thing. A startup called Sunn has…
Read MoreSuper efficient perovskites are dazzling solar cell researchers
There's a lot of excitement about a class of materials called perovskites that promise to deliver efficient and cheap solar cells. In a pursuit to lower production cost, one team at the Northern Illinois University recently demonstrated the possibility of replacing gold with nickel to conducting electricity.…
Read MoreThere’s an opportunity for tech in the EPA’s proposed smog rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to tighten the rule for regulating ground-level ozone, or smog, a move that regulators hope will spark new technology development to reduce emissions.…
Read MoreEnergy and tech butting heads over $5.2B Texas battery project
A battle is brewing in Texas over a power company's $5.2 billion plan to install batteries in its network of power lines to help it manage its supply and demand more efficiently. The fight also reflects how new technology is disrupting the power generation and delivery business across the country.…
Read MoreThis Israeli startup makes robots that dry clean solar panels
Meet robots that can clean solar panels without water for dry, dusty places.…
Read MoreThis auction could triple U.S. offshore wind energy real estate
Offshore wind energy generation always seems to be a distant reality, for the United States at least. But the development pace could pick up with the planned auction of over 742,000 acres off Massachusetts that could produce enough electricity to power half of the homes in that state, said the U.S. Department of Interior on Monday.…
Read MoreWhy China’s big plan to cut emissions is good for tech business
What China does to curb its emissions is good both for the environment and for tech companies looking for a large market. So it's worth paying attention to a report released Monday that argues that the world's largest polluter could double its renewable energy use between 2010 and 2030 by investing $145 billion annually.…
Read MoreSunPower wants to be the Dell of solar
SunPower is looking to consumer web brands like Dell, as well as Uber and Amazon, to deliver better solar sales.…
Read MoreIs it boom time ahead (again) for solar panel manufacturing?
Why are we seeing such optimism when it wasn't so long ago when dozens of solar manufacturers shrank or went out of business?…
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