Ahead of the UN climate summit and the global climate strike, the world’s largest search engine announced that the tech behemoth will make its biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy yet, signing on to a series of agreements that will increase Google’s wind and solar investments by 40 percent, as Quartz reported.Google struck 18 clean energy deals that…
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Solar Frontier Americas (SFA), the United States-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Company, announced that it has acquired a 50.5 MWdc solar project purchased from CS Solar, a joint venture company of Samsung Solar Energy. The project is located in Stanislaus County, California, a few hours southeast of San Jose. Power from the project will be…
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The temperature of Earth’s surface is generally pretty stable, but it has to let heat off somehow. When heat waves rise off a sidewalk, for example, they dissipate into cooler air. That cooling process eventually reaches the upper atmosphere and then the cold, lifeless environs of space, in a process called radiative sky cooling. Scientists…
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When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the International Solar Alliance last October, he applauded the goal of mobilizing about $1 trillion dollars towards the deployment of some 1,000 gigawatts of solar energy by 2030. “It is clear,” he said, “that we are witnessing a global renewable energy revolution.” That revolution is also taking place under…
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Genera, the Croatian subsidiary of the UK-based veterinary products manufacturer Dechra Pharmaceuticals, has officially opened the country’s largest integrated solar power plant for self-consumption. The integrated solar renewable energy facility, built under a GBP 1.3 million investment partially subsidized by EU funds, features 5,543 rooftop photovoltaic (PV) panels fitted at Genera’s plant in Sveta Nedelja,…
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The concept of solar energy usually inspires images of long rows of solar panels lined up in a vast field. However, generating energy from the sun in the future could partially eliminate the need for this technology thanks to researchers in Europe. Scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden have developed microorganisms that can efficiently produce the biofuel…
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Akon is not only a musician, but he’s a businessman. He has a record label, clothing brand, numerous charities, and a number of philanthropic endeavors in Africa. He also has a hand in cryptocurrency and launched his first solar energy efforts in the states last year. Ever since 2014, his company Akon Lighting Africa has…
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Solar energy added more capacity worldwide than any other form of power over the past 10 years, a report released Thursday reveals. The “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2019,” commissioned by the United Nations Environment’s economy division, paints a bright picture for the future of renewables. It reveals that, between 2010 and 2019, the…
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Solar power is already taking over the land, so naturally, now it’s coming for the sea. The big ol’ boat in the photo above is the Silent 55 ship from Silent Yachts, a luxury solar panel boat company based in Austria. It uses silent electric propulsion to achieve unlimited range without noise, fumes, or any maintenance at all.…
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to better harness the volume of energy collected by solar panels. In a new study, the researchers developed an algorithm that increases the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic (PV) system and reduces the volume of power currently being wasted due to a lack of effective…
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