GE Ventures Invests in sonnen Group’s Mission to Form Utility of the Future
sonnen develops and produces the smart storage system “sonnenBatterie”.
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EWeLiNE Project for Better Forecasting For Solar And Wind Power Generation
In the EWeLiNE project, Fraunhofer and the German Weather Service have been working to develop better models for forecasting the generation of renewable electricity.
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How to Make Battery Energy Storage Attractive to UK Customers
Costs for residential battery energy storage in the UK remain too high. For storage to enter the mass market, suppliers have to innovate their customer propositions and business models.
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Forty years of DLR energy research: Think tank for solar thermal power plants
At the end of the 1970s, the building of the first solar thermal pilot plants with outputs of a few megawatts began in the USA and Europe.
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Fraunhofer ISE Adds Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell Vehicle to its Research Fleet of Fuel Cell Cars
A fuel cell in the vehicle converts hydrogen into electricity which runs an electric motor. Only water vapor is emitted from the exhaust pipe.
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Laser Based Manufacturing Process for Solar Cells
For the first time point-contacted solar cells can be manufactured in series. Several million cells with significantly higher efficiency levels are already on the market.
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Clues on the path to a new lithium battery technology
Rechargeable lithium air batteries are a next-generation technology: Theoretically they might be much lighter and offer better performance than current lithium ion batteries.
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Emission-free Electric flight – DLR presents the HY4 research platform at the 2016 Hannover Trade Fair
Realisation of the hybrid propulsion concept for the HY4 research platform is an important milestone en route to making electric flight a reality – even for passenger transportation.
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Solar Concentrator Photovoltaics Targeted for Highly Efficient Power Production in India
Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) is a cost-effective method for generating electricity in regions that have a large fraction of direct solar radiation.
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Thin-Film Solar Cells: How Defects Appear and Disappear in CIGSe Cells
The four elements comprising CIGSe are vapour-deposited onto a substrate together to form a very thin layer of tiny chalcopyrite crystals.
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Senvion Wins First Wind Farm Projects in Chile Totalling 300 MW
After its planned completion in spring 2017, the wind farm will have a total rated output of 170 MW and supply more than 110.000 households per year with electricity.
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40 Years of Energy Research: How Renewable Energy Came Out of the Niche
Riesenhuber immediately realised that a political change of direction and more money for research into renewable energy sources were needed.
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World’s Smallest Heat Engine Uses Just a Single Particle
An article in the latest edition of the journalScience describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom.
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