Interview with E. Caglan Kumbur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University Energy storage technologies have the potential to improve grid efficiency and reliability by optimizing power flows and supporting variable power supplies. However, storage applications are often costly and don’t always produce achievable returns in [...]
Pythagoras Solar, provider of “powered by Pythagoras†solar windows, announced recently that its photovoltaic glass unit (PVGU) has been tested to the UL 1703 standard by Intertek and has successfully gained ETL certification. Pythagoras Solar’s PVGU is the industry’s first solar window to simultaneously provide energy efficiency, high solar power density and optimized daylighting. “The [...]
Solar3D, Inc. the developer of a breakthrough 3-dimensional solar cell technology to maximize the conversion of sunlight into electricity, today explained how its breakthrough 3-dimensional solar cell technology will create new solar market opportunities by changing the economics of solar energy to enable many new cost-effective applications. “Today’s cost per watt metric for measuring solar [...]
Ioxus, Inc., a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets, today announced the unveiling of its first 16V/58F iMOD(TM) series of ultracapacitor modules that provides the high performance, high efficiency and high reliability the energy storage market needs as it continues to grow. Â In addition, the [...]
Capstone Turbine Corporation , one of the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced recently that HelioFocus and Capstone successfully demonstrated a product converting sunlight to electricity with a solar receiver driving a microturbine. The demonstration was conducted with a Capstone C65 microturbine by HelioFocus and Capstone on a fixed optical tower using [...]
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