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New solar storage solution could be the key to home-brewed electricity
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Reports of new developments in the area of solar power are an almost daily event here at Gizmag. The main focus of research seems to be on improving the efficiency of solar cells, but others are working at developing an inexpensive method of locally storing the energy generated by solar systems. Because society [...]
Converting Solar Light To Electricity: Silicon-free Photoelectric Module Integrates Easily
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A team of researchers at the Ikerlan-IK4 technological centre in Spain have made a laboratory-scale photoelectric panel which, apart from fulfilling the function of converting solar light into electricity, solves the problems of integratability and availability that current technology presents.
The installation of solar photoelectric panels – capable of converting the sun’s [...]
Semantic Web Promises A Smarter Electricity Grid
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Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web technology promises a solution.
Managing increasingly dispersed energy resources – from far-flung wind farms on remote mountaintops to racks of solar panels [...]










































