Tag: new energy news

Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC, Tokyo, Japan) has formed a new manufacturing subsidiary in North America, TMEIC Power Electronics Products Corporation, to manufacture solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters in North America. Fabrication of PV inverters will commence in the fall of 2014 at the Houston, Texas based facility. The factory’s production will start with “Solar Ware” UL certified PV Inverters,

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MeshPower Ltd. is seeking 10,000 customers in rural Africa and India for its solar power micro-grids to replace more costly kerosene-fueled lighting by 2016. The company now has about 250 customers in Rwanda and India and has the funds to increase this four-fold by the end of the year, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Lukas Lukoschek said in an interview

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Global Business Resources, a consortium of international investors from the United States, are in Nigeria for discussion with officials of the Federal Government for the construction of two solar-powered electricity plants of 50 megawatts capacity each in Nigeria. A statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the Deputy Director, Press, Ministry of Power, Mr. Timothy Oyedeji, said the two plants

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A new CIGS thin-film solar cell conversion efficiency record was recently achieved by researchers at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Stuttgart. The new conversion efficiency record of 21.7% beats the previous record of 21% — that was set earlier this year by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems — pretty substantially, and represents a

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The first (as far as we know) Tesla Model S convertible was recently spotted on the streets of San Francisco. And now, thanks to a perhaps-a-bit-nosy someone, we can take a gander at it too (thanks to the photos they took). 🙂 Hard to know what to make of the vehicle, especially when you consider the money that went into

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Chinese solar manufacturer JA Solar Holdings says it has attained 20 per cent solar energy conversion efficiency in its multi-crystalline silicon solar cell, which it says is a world record for a multi-Si solar cell efficiency. The new mark came just 9 months after it had set a previous record of 19 per cent efficiency in its multi-Sci cells. The

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Representatives from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), ComEd, Silver Spring Networks (SSNI) and West Monroe Partners have opened theCenter for Smart Grid Application, Research and Technology (CSMART). CSMART is dedicated to researching, testing and analyzing the latest smart grid and smart city technology innovations in a real-world environment. Located at IIT’s Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation and built

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Researchers at MIT have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started Ambri, Inc. to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, whose layers of molten material automatically separate due to their differing densities. But the new formula — published in the journal Nature by Sadoway,

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The energy internet was the focus of a talk during the afternoon plenary session at the 2014 Darnell Energy Summit (DES ’14) by Dr. Alex Q. Huang, Progress Energy Distinguished Professor with theFREEDM Systems Center at NC State University. After presenting an overview of the concept of the “energy internet” as it related to today’s utilities and the emerging smart

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced 15 new 200 V Gen-2 TMBS® Trench MOS Barrier Schottky rectifiers featuring a wide range of current ratings from 5 A to 30 A in four power package options. With low forward voltage drops down to 0.65 V typical at 15 A, the rectifiers offer high-efficiency operation for telecom power supplies and LED lighting applications.

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