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Solar power growth leaps by 50% worldwide thanks to US and China
Posted in Business on 8th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
The amount of solar power added worldwide soared by some 50% last year because of a sun rush in the US and China, new figures show.
Solar reached 1.4% of U.S. electricity in 2016
Posted in Business on 5th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Energy show that all renewables together made up 15.3% of U.S. generation.
New York sees almost 800 percent growth in solar over 5 years
Posted in Hardware on 23rd Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller
New York's Clean Energy Standard requires 50 percent of electricity to come from renewables by 2030.
Hurdle cleared on road to printable, low-cost perovskite solar cells
Posted in Hardware on 18th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller
A manufacturing breakthrough that allows for lower cost and higher efficiency perovskite solar cells to move forward.
US Solar Market Grows 95% in 2016, Smashes Records
Posted in Science on 16th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller
The United States solar market nearly doubled its annual record, topping out at 14,626 megawatts of solar PV installed in 2016.