GameChange Solar creates free PV training course with Texas workforce development service
Solar Power GameChange Solar partnered with Texas-based workforce management service Workrise in supporting free, hands-on training for students interested in joining the growing renewable energy industry. Through people and technology, Workrise matches…
How We Tracked Secret Oil Deliveries to North Korea
Solar Power On an overcast day in May 2020, a satellite captures this image over the sea near Taiwan. At first it appears to just show clouds, until you look closer and enhance the image. What you see here is a transfer of oil to a ship that will end…
Why $4-a-Gallon Gas May Be Coming Your Way This Summer
Solar Power HOUSTON — Even as oil and gasoline prices rise, industry executives are resisting their usual impulse to pump more oil out of the ground, which could keep energy prices moving up as the economy recovers.The oil industry is predictably cyclical:…
Trawling for Fish May Unleash as Much Carbon as Air Travel, Study Says
Solar Power For the first time, scientists have calculated how much planet-warming carbon dioxide is released into the ocean by bottom trawling, the practice of dragging enormous nets along the ocean floor to catch shrimp, whiting, cod and other fish.…
Chuck Schumer Stalls Climate Overhaul of Flood Insurance Program
Solar Power WASHINGTON — One of the federal government’s main efforts to push Americans to prepare for climate threats is in question after the Senate majority leader’s office objected to a plan to adjust flood insurance rates.The Federal Emergency…
How Volkswagen’s Sins Fueled Its Redemption
Solar Power Christian Strenger, a vocal Volkswagen critic and a former member of the commission that wrote Germany’s corporate governance code, sees little chance the company’s overseers will expose themselves to more scrutiny. The supervisory board…
FuturaSun’s solar panels power largest self-consumption photovoltaic park in Courland, Latvia
Solar Power Padua, Italy, February 27, 2021 (Solar Business Hub) — Eurostat figures show that Northern-European countries are keener on using renewable energy such as Latvia where the gross consumption of renewable energy sources (RES) amounts to 41.0%,…
ESS Inc. welcomes Raffi Garabedian to board of directors
Solar Power Former First Solar CTO brings years of industry knowledge to long-duration battery storage companyWILSONVILLE, Ore., Feb. 23, 2021 — ESS Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron-based flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy…
Ambient air processed perovskite solar cells achieve record efficiency of up to 18.3%
Solar Power Researchers demonstrate a new method to fabricate solar perovskite solar cells in ambient air bringing their efficiency up to 18.3%, which could boost perovskite technology towards production and commercialization of high performance and…
RE-USE of PV modules, challenges and opportunities of the circular economy
Solar Power Renewables are set to form the backbones of our future energy system and among them, photovoltaics (PV) has rapidly become one of the most economic energy generation technology. The price of electricity generated by PV has reached a levelized…