World’s Largest Solar Panel Facade Powers Danish School

Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 16, 2017 By Lorraine Chow Copenhagen International School’s new building in the Nordhavn district features the largest solar facade in the world. The 12,000 solar glass panels can generate 300 megawatt hours of...

India Looks to Battery Storage to Supplement Its Solar Boom

Source: indeseem.org Published: March 14, 2016 Image Source: Green Tech Media Written by: Mike Stone. Posted on: March 14, 2016 For the first time ever, India is putting out the call for energy storage developers. The state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)...

New Energy Storage Plant Could ‘Revolutionise’ Renewable Sector

Source: theguardian.com Published: April 8, 2015 A new energy storage plant in Ireland will be able to match variable renewable energy supplies to consumer demand, say it’s designers Photograph: Helene ROCHE Photography / Alamy/Alamy Arthur Neslen Brussels Foundations...

SolarWindow Unveils New Energy-Generating Glass That Bends

Source: inhabitat.com Published: January 18, 2017 SolarWindow is now developing thin, bendable glass. Written by Lacy Cooke SolarWindow made headlines for their business-card thin solar coating for curved glass surfaces in late 2016, and now they’re going a step...

Try A Solar Water Heater

Source: greenamerica.org Published: January 18, 2017 By Green America After a year with their solar hot water heater, homeowners Bob Allen and Lyle Rudensey say they’ll never go back to relying on a conventional water heater. Even in gloomy, rainy Seattle, they are...

Australian Solar Hot Water Installations Top One Million Mark

Source: reneweconomy.com.au Published: October 21, 2016 The number of solar hot water systems installed in Australia has topped the one million mark, according to the Clean Energy Regulator, but the rate of installation is at its lowest in a decade. The CER said in a...

Solar Power More Lucrative Than Crops at Some US Farms

Source: renewableenergyworld.com Published: April 5, 2016  By Bloomberg News Editors For more than a century, Dawson Singletary’s family has grown tobacco, peanuts and cotton on a 530-acre farm amid the coastal flatlands of North Carolina. Now he’s making money from a...

Apple Plans to Sell Excess Rooftop Solar Energy from New Home

Source: bloomberg.com Published: June 9, 2016 NOTE: This article requires a Bloomberg subscription to read in full. Photographer: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images By Alex Webb Apple Inc. plans to sell excess electricity generated by solar panels on the roof of its new...