Renewable energy can improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Renewable power generation is on the rise worldwide, and in 2015, ...

Solar power is already a cleaner energy source than traditional dirty fuels, but a team of researchers from Tohoku University has made a breakthrough that could make solar even cleaner, according to ...

Photovoltaic solar cells convert light energy from the sun into electricity. Although significant strides have been made in increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic technology, they usually only ...

A civil engineering research team has developed a new way to clean oil sands process affected water and reclaim tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands industry. Using sunlight as a renewable energy ...

A new Department of Energy-funded research project seeks to solve one of the biggest challenges with solar power — what to do with solar panels after they die. Solar energy is key to solving climate ...

The department of solar process demonstration deals with the scaling and demonstration of processes for the efficient production of solar fuels with the aim of industrial realisation. It brings the ...

Over the past decade, perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells have demonstrated a stunning development. In research, efficiencies of more than 33 percent have been shown, exceeding by far those of ...

Over the last several years, China’s PV industry has developed rapidly, its newly installed capacity ranking first in the world for 8 consecutive years. The time is right for the integration of smart ...

A new process that simultaneously combines the light and heat of solar radiation to generate electricity could offer more than double the efficiency of existing solar cell technology, say the ...