There’s a lot of talk about making power meters and the electric grid “smart” enough to handle additional energy from solar panels. National Semiconductor wants to make the solar panels themselves smarter. They’ve developed a chip that integrates into the junction boxes of solar panels, optimizing power production.

A global aluminum company called Norsk Hydro is supporting green jobs in the U.S.U.S. Two of the company’s southeastern U.S. facilities will supply aluminum frames and other parts for a new hybrid concentrating solar facility for Florida Power & Light.

In H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, tiny organisms found in nature save the world from powerful high tech invaders that have overwhelmed mankind’s powerful high tech weapons, and in a classic case of life imitating art, there they go again.

A solar-powered plane is getting ready to hit the skies once again - this time, at night. It will be the first ever manned night flight on a plane propelled exclusively by solar energy. Solar Impulse will lift off from an airfield in Switzerland, on a sunny day sometime at the end of June.

Hai trong số các cơ sở sản xuất của công ty tại vùng Đông nam nước Mỹ sẽ cung cấp khung nhôm và các bộ phận khác cho một nhà máy năng lượng mặt trời hybrid thế hệ mới của công ty Florida Power & Light (FPL). Nhà máy năng lượng đầu tiên thuộc loại này, mạng lưới nhiệt mặt trời rộng 200 hecta, sẽ kết nối với một nhà máy dùng khí tự nhiên, thay thế năng lượng từ nhiên liệu hóa thạch bằng năng lượng mặt trời vào ban ngày.

Công ty công nghệ Kiwi Choice của Canada vừa qua đã giới thiệu một loại sạc năng lượng mặt trời mới dành cho các thiết bị di động có tên U-Powered. Thiết kế của sạc khá đặc biệt gồm 3 tấm quang điện xòe ra hình nan quạt, tích hợp 1 nguồn pin 2000mAh mạnh mẽ có thể sạc lại hơn 1 nghìn lần, 4 đèn LED báo mức độ sạc, 1 đèn flash LED và chân từ tính để đặt lên bề mặt kim loại. Ngoài ra, sản phẩm cũng kèm theo 11 đầu sạc tương thích nhiều thiết bị khác nhau

A research team at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has developed a powerful new tool that promises to unlock the secrets of biomass degradation, a critical step in the development of cost-effective cellulosic biofuels. The details of this method were published online on June 11 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

But now Sanyo’s lithium-ion battery technology has made it possible for Mira EV to travel 1003.184 km without a recharge. Traveling for 27.5 hours, at 40 km/h average speed, from May 22 to May 23, 2010, the trail run by Mira EV was powered by putting together 8320 cylindrical lithium-ion 18650-type batteries.

Held by The World & Vietnam Magazine (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in cooperation with the Asia Business Forum (ABF), and European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (Eurocham), the conference is the largest ever on the issue. It is forecast that Vietnam's economy continues to grow rapidly while the population will reach 100 million by 2020. To meet the demand for electricity, Vietnam's power sector must maintain a growth rate of more than 12% annually.

When we pay our electricity bill, we are paying for more than just the operation of wind turbines or nuclear power stations. What with rental for the electricity meter, costs for using the power grids, value-added tax and a tax on electricity, coupled with a surcharge for the preferred sourcing of green power, the final price we pay is effectively double the generation cost.

France’s oil company Total, one of the six ’super major’ oil companies in the world, and Spain’s Abengoa Solar will join hands with Abu Dhabi-based alternate energy company Masdar to build this power plant which would span 2.5 square meters ( one square mile). The project will be located in Madinat Zayed, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) southwest of Abu Dhabi.

Millions of heart patients worldwide have benefited from the implantable cardiac defibrillators powered by Takeuchi's silver vanadium oxide battery. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, she is developing new cathode materials for improved implantable cardiac defibrillator batteries, with her latest advances on this project recently published in the Journal of Power Sources.

While South Africa introduced a generous feed-in tariff of ZAR1.25/kWh (EUR0.134/kWh) for wind power last year (Windpower Monthly, May 2009), the system is not yet in place for independent power producers to sign power purchase agreements with state utility Eskom.

Tập đoàn truyền thông Orange vừa qua đã giới thiệu nguyên mẫu đầu tiên của bộ sạc điện thoại đặc biệt tích hợp trên đôi ủng cao su với khả năng chuyển đổi nhiệt từ đôi chân thành năng lượng điện. Sản phẩm có tên gọi Orange Power Wellies do Orange và các chuyên gia nghiên cứu năng lượng phục hồi GotWind phát triển.

The chairman of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology and Environment Committee Prof. and Dr. of Sc. Dang Vu Minh, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dr. Do Huu Hao, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Le Dinh Tien and the head of the Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute Dr. Vuong Huu Tan all attended the exhibition.

Electricity is a powerful tool for building modern societies and plays a critical role in eradicating poverty and boosting economies. Yet, according to U.N. estimates, 1.5 billion people—nearly a quarter of the world's population—live without access to reliable power.

Máy phát điện năng lượng mặt trời Vinatra Solar power generator – T2010 do công ty Vinatra sản xuất và lắp ráp với nhiều công suất khác nhau cung cấp cho thị trường những dòng sản phẩm máy phát điện năng lượng mặt trời giá rẻ, chất lượng đảm bảo với dịch vụ bảo hành chu đáo.

The Japanese giant said it would invest seven billion yen (76 million dollars) by March 2012 in facilities in its domestic production centres to test how to maintain stable power from fluctuating renewable energies.

During the construction of Vung Tau Post Hotel, the installation of solar-powered water boilers and lighting system was not taken into account. And now after realizing the importance of such devices, it’s already a “fait accompli”. All rooms were designed in architecturally older ideas, hence very difficult to make changes. For the terrace, it is also impossible to install both solar-powered water boilers system and solar-powered lighting system. Without any additional source of power, the company is now paying as much as VND200 million every month for electric bills.

They have been toting a 131-foot-long wind-turbine blade serving as a mobile petition to be signed by all supporters. This is to create awareness that promoting wind power industry will generate new jobs and make US self-sufficient in energy production. Their goal is the Wind-Power 2010 Convention at Dallas where the blade will be on display.