A driver can easily get more miles from an hour of level 2 charging while their light-duty EV is parked and plugged into a charger than the average person drives in a day. Most EV charging is Level 2, which provides about 25 miles of range per hour of charging. … [continued]
States and localities want to raise their chances of attracting clean energy investment. Industry leaders want to find the places best suited for scaling their technologies. The Clean Growth Tool helps with both. The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has triggered an explosion of clean energy investment in the United … [continued]
Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) could once again become an economically attractive and high-efficient PV technology for regions with high direct solar irradiance. To leverage its advantages, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Soltec have partnered to develop a prototype of a two-axis tracker which is designed to smoothly integrate … [continued]
The new edition of the study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE on the electricity generation costs of various power plants shows that photovoltaic systems, even in combination with battery storage, now produce electricity much more cheaply than coal or gas power plants. The Fraunhofer ISE has … [continued]
Mercedes has been given permission by Chinese authorities to begin testing is autonomous cars on the streets of Beijing.
The number and size of cruise ships globally have doubled since the start of the millennium, T&E’s new ‘Cruisezilla’ report reveals Today’s biggest cruise ship is 5× bigger than the Titanic 2× rise in number of cruise ships since 2000 Today’s biggest cruise ships are twice as big as they were … [continued]
Spin control and chiral structures are front and center in the next generation of lower-costing, higher-performing perovskite solar cells.
The Investing in America Agenda Supports Innovative, Clean Energy Technologies to Strengthen Responsible Domestic Supply Chains and Reduce Our Nation’s Reliance on Foreign Sources In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $10.2 million for four projects that will advance cost … [continued]
Solar opponents will have to figure out a new line of attack when perovskite solar cells suddenly plaster the world.
Gas Leaks Cost U.S. Fire Departments Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Each Year Every three minutes, a fire department responds to a suspected gas leak in the U.S. Now, new research suggests these emergencies place a significant burden on first responders and taxpayers. The new peer-reviewed study from scientists at … [continued]
