by Eric Jussaume | Nov 23, 2016 | News
By Katie Fehrenbacher Photograph by Fortune/Katie Fehrenbacher NOVEMBER 17, 2016, 11:28 AM EST On the sleepy Hawaiian island of Kauai sits a first of its kind solar and battery project. The rain pauses, the clouds part, and the sun finally shines down on a sprawling...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 22, 2016 | News
A new analysis suggests that we continue to move into a world in which it makes more economic sense to draw electricity from the sun or the winds, rather than from fossil fuels. The report, from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, examined the “levelized cost of...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 18, 2016 | News
While silicon has long been the standard for commercial solar cells, new research from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain has shown that graphene could prove far more efficient when it comes to transforming light into energy. The study found that...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 17, 2016 | News
Imagine a future where a building’s energy comes from its windows. Many scientists have worked towards that future in the lab, but now five scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated solar window technology can indeed be scaled up. Instead of...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 16, 2016 | News
by Josh Marks VIEW SLIDESHOW San Diego is not waiting for Washington to get its act together on climate change. The southern California city is moving forward with an ambitious plan to run on 100% renewable energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035 – and...
