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Researchers Test Optimal Configurations for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines to Enable Cheaper Electricity for Cities

The U.S. Department of Energy has made a prediction that by the year 2030, wind energy could provide 20% of electricity in the U.S. This has driven researchers from the University of Utah’s Department of Mechanical Engineering to examine the performance capabilities and financial advantages of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in suburban and urban areas.

7 Aug 2017

Researchers Develop Long Lasting, Energy Density Battery

The newest innovation at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute is a new generation of manganese dioxide-zinc batteries with unparalleled cycle life and energy density. The discovery has made the regular household battery ideal for large grid storage applications.

2 Aug 2017

New Optimization Model Could Provide Higher Solar-Power Integration in Residential Photovoltaic Systems

It has been established that solar power is a source of mainstream power generation throughout the world. A number of photovoltaic (PV) systems have been installed in residential homes at or near the distribution site.

26 Jul 2017

Researchers Study Impact of Ethanol-to-Gasoline Switch in São Paulo, Brazil

A new study by a Northwestern University Chemist, a National University of Singapore economist and two University of São Paulo physicists revealed that the concentration of ultrafine particles less than 50 nm in diameter increased by one-third in the air of São Paulo, Brazil.

19 Jul 2017

Nanomaterial catalyst has potential to improve solar energy storage

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland have developed a new material that acts as a catalyst within the electrolyser, potentially making such devices cheaper and more efficient in the future.

18 Jul 2017

Rooftop Concentrating Photovoltaics Perform Better than Silicon in Outdoor Testing Study

In a head-to-head competition, a concentrating photovoltaic system with embedded microtracking can produce more than 50% extra energy daily than standard silicon solar cells, according to a team of Engineers who field tested a prototype unit over two sunny days in Fall last year.

18 Jul 2017

Researchers Build Solar Cell Capable of Capturing Almost All Energy of Solar Spectrum

Researchers have designed and created a prototype for a new solar cell that incorporates many cells stacked into a single device capable of trapping almost all of the energy in the solar spectrum.

12 Jul 2017

Meniscus-Assisted Method to Create Very Efficient Perovskite PV Films

A new low-temperature solution printing method allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals projected to reduce current-robbing grain boundaries. The meniscus-assisted solution printing (MASP) method increases power conversion efficiencies to approximately 20% by manipulating crystal size and orientation.

10 Jul 2017

Selective Electrocatalysts Developed to Improve Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently have developed a new technology to increase performance of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) using high-concentration methanol as fuel, thereby shedding some light on the design of clean and economical alternative energy sources for portable electric gadgets.

3 Jul 2017

Study Highlights Benefits and Correct Management of Cellulosic Biofuels

Is it possible for cellulosic biofuels - or liquid energy derived from wood and grasses - to become a green fuel of the future, offering an environmentally sustainable approach to meeting energy requirements?

30 Jun 2017

Energy Efficiency News

Researchers Test Optimal Configurations for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines to Enable Cheaper Electricity for Cities

Researchers Develop Long Lasting, Energy Density Battery

New Optimization Model Could Provide Higher Solar-Power Integration in Residential Photovoltaic Systems

Researchers Study Impact of Ethanol-to-Gasoline Switch in São Paulo, Brazil

Nanomaterial catalyst has potential to improve solar energy storage

Rooftop Concentrating Photovoltaics Perform Better than Silicon in Outdoor Testing Study

Researchers Build Solar Cell Capable of Capturing Almost All Energy of Solar Spectrum

Meniscus-Assisted Method to Create Very Efficient Perovskite PV Films

Selective Electrocatalysts Developed to Improve Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Performance

Study Highlights Benefits and Correct Management of Cellulosic Biofuels

Producing Clean Hydrogen with Near-Zero Carbon Emissions with The Hazer Process

Relocating the Growing of Food to Urban Areas

How Origin’s Solar Power Purchase Agreement is helping more Businesses go Solar

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Energy Efficiency News

1 Researchers Test Optimal Configurations for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines to Enable Cheaper Electricity for Cities

2 Researchers Demonstrate Electrochemical Strategy for CO2 Fixation

3 UMD Scientists Invent First Ever Bio-Compatible, Ion Current Battery

4 Researchers Develop Long Lasting, Energy Density Battery

5 RIT Researchers Use Nanowires to Enhance Solar Cell Technology

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