Aaron Sebens and his class of fourth-graders from the Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina hit Kickstarter back in March to try and raise enough money for their classroom to go off-grid.

Máy bay chạy bằng năng lượng mặt trời có người lái đầu tiên Solar Impulse vừa kết thúc hành trình xuyên nước Mỹ khi hạ cánh xuống sân bay John F Kennedy, thành phố New York vào lúc 10 giờ 11 (giờ Hà Nội) ngày 7/7 (đêm 6/7 giờ Mỹ).

Solar Impulse – the solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – has successfully landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The global solar PV industry is on the cusp of one of its greatest changes.

The solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will fly to New York for the fifth and last leg of its Across America mission flights on Saturday, July 6th, 2013.

Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun's light and heat into electricity.

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity.

Con tàu chạy bằng năng lượng mặt trời lớn nhất thế giới - MS Tûranor PlanetSolar – mới đây đã cập cảng North Cove Marina ở Hạ Manhattan, trong chuyến hành trình dài 8.000km theo dòng chảy của hải lưu Gulf Stream trên biển Đại Tây Dương.

ET Solar Group vừa thông báo rằng họ đã hoàn thành việc giao hàng cho học khu Apple Valley ở miền nam California để phục vụ dự án năng lượng mặt trời 2,3 MW được tiến hành lắp đặt bởi nhóm Giải Pháp Năng Lượng DS.

ET Solar Group has announced that it has completed the delivery to Apple Valley Unified School District in Southern California for its 2.3 MW solar projects installed by DS Energy Solutions.

The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy.

Scientists at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW (Germany) have developed top-class lithium-ion batteries.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL, Golden, Colorado, US) will open a new facility dedicated to utility-scale integration of technology including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines and electric vehicles on August 21st, 2013.

The International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR, Münster, Germany) reports that on June 16th, 2013 wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) generation peaked at over 60% of German electricity output, a new record.

With the support of the Vietnam-Finland Innovation Partnership Program (IPP) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),

Các chuyên gia Hà Lan đã trình làng Wearable Solar, tích hợp bản điện mặt trời vào quần áo để sạc pin cho các thiết bị điện tử.

Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013.

The Da Nang Science and Technology Department has successfully completed a one-year pilot project to test solar powered energy on two deep-sea fishing vessels.

India installed 240 MW of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity during March 2013, according to the nation's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

Máy bay Solar Impulse đáp xuống thủ đô của nước Mỹ hôm qua sau khi hoàn thành chuyến bay thử nghiệm thứ ba.