The energy sector, including energy storage, solar power and hydrogen storage, will see great advances in the coming two decades, and nanotechnology will be a key driver of that progress. […]
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is encouraging big investors to reconsider renewable energy, particularly solar, as a viable, profitable asset class. Renewable energy technology has made “exponential gains” in efficiency,
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The price of renewable energy has fallen to unprecedented lows, according to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF). For the first time, solar energy is now cheaper in
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A new report from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) says that the green building industry generated more economic benefits and employed more people in Canada in 2014 than oil
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If solar cells were, say, 30 per cent more efficient than they currently are, the number of panels needed to convert light to electricity would be reduced, with a corresponding
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany announced that they have broken a previous record and created a solar cell with 44.7 per cent efficiency at
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Canadian Solar, the Guelph-based solar power company, announced that it would supply photovoltaic modules totaling 91 megawatts to Soleq Solar of Thailand. This is enough electricity to power approximately 100,000
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A pair of breakthroughs in lithium-ion battery technology could have long-range effects for consumers and industry. At the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), scientists have designed
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