BRISTOL, United Kingdom, April 21, 2010 – Her Majesty the Queen, head of state of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, has awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category to DuPont for the continuous development of DuPont Solamet photovoltaic metallization paste, a key component in increasing the energy efficiency of solar cells. […]

(Oregon State University) – Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells – an innovative technology that could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy devices and reduce material waste. The advance was just reported in Current Applied Physics, a professional journal, […]

It’s no wonder that many of Earth Day’s most ardent supporters are children. Environmental education is growing into a fixture in classrooms across the United States. Students are often eager to put their lessons in sustainability into practice at home. In turn, children are often the ones to push their parents towards energy efficiency. Influential […]

(AP) — Hydrogen, one of Earth’s most abundant elements, once was seen as green energy’s answer to the petroleum-driven car: easy to produce, available everywhere and nonpolluting when burned. Hydrogen energy was defeated by a mountain of obstacles – the fear of explosion by the highly flammable gas, the difficulty of carrying the fuel in […]

ROCKVILLE, MD -U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is announcing award selections for nearly $100 million for 54 smart grid workforce training programs that will help prepare the next generation of workers in the utility and electrical manufacturing industries. These projects will leverage more than $95 million in […]

Custom Electronics (CEI), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-reliability electronics products, today announced the launch of a division specializing in the manufacture of bus bars, bus bar assemblies and integrated energy storage solutions. CEI has manufactured single conductor bus bars and multi-layer bus bar assemblies for select customers for a number of years and […]

Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, signed a three-year contract with imec to perform joint research on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells. In the framework of imec’s industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on silicon solar cells, Dow Corning has joined several program activities. With its silicon solar cell IIAP, […]

Venkat Selvamanickam, director of the Applied Research Hub and the M.D. Anderson chair professor of the department of mechanical engineering, University of Houston, is developing a technology with high temperature superconducting wires that promises to revolutionize the way power is generated, transported and used. “The country’s electric transmission grid currently consists of about 160,000 miles […]

 Micropelt, an innovator in thermal energy harvesting technology, has collaborated with Royal Dutch Shell to prove the concept of converting waste heat into a sustainable, maintenance-free power supply for wireless sensor devices. Shell sees wireless sensor networks as a strong contributor to increasing productivity and lowering maintenance costs through better status information. The concept of […]