Google + SunEdison = Residential Solar Installations
This morning (April 23) SunPower and Google announced that they partnered on a new, $250 million fund to finance rooftop solar arrays on homes across the U.S. While the tech giant has created funds to...
View ArticleDiscovered: New High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Material
University of Houston physicists have discovered a new thermoelectric material offering high performance at temperatures ranging from room temperature up to 300 °C, or about 573 °F. “This new material...
View ArticleGermany: Transforming Energy Usage
As the academic breeding ground of Einstein, Freud, and many other internationally-known scholars, it should come as no surprise that Germany is at the forefront of modernizing an industry as complex...
View ArticleWill California’s SB 43 Bring Solar for All?
When it comes to solar power, how do we ensure participation and access? Sachu Constantine of the California Center for Sustainable Energy posed this question at a recent Agrion event on the...
View ArticleVenture Capital is Missing The Solar Train!
On a day when the Wall Street Journal sings the praise of how much capital is flowing to solar companies like SunRun and Sungevity, Minh Le, director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office, stands...
View ArticleIntegrating Biomethane Into Concentrating Solar Plants
The Hysol project aims to integrate biomethane into concentrating solar thermal power plants to achieve better efficiency, productive capacity and a reduction in carbon footprint. According to the...
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