Australian scientists said they had made a breakthrough in increasing the efficiency of solar panels, which they hope could eventually lead to cheaper sources of renewable energy. In what the University of New South Wales described as a world first, the researchers were able to convert more than 40 percent of sunlight hitting the panels into electricity. "This is the highest efficiency ever reported for sun ...

Tikuepor, an ethnic Karen from eastern Myanmar living on the Thai side of the Salween River, is one of thousands of people worried about losing everything if a multinational hydropower project goes ahead in this sensitive border area. A senior commander of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), which claims to control land in Myanmar affected by the project, says the Myanmar military has moved more troo ...

Pakistan has pledged to quickly end a shortfall in electricity output that has crippled businesses and households even in affluent areas of the capital and stoked a public backlash against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who rode to office in May 2013 on pledges to fix the problem. Pakistan faces a shortfall of around 30% of demand of 20,000 megawatts (MW) with output now around 14,000 MW. Sha ...

Evoqua Water Technologies, a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems and services for industrial, marine and municipal customers, has introduced the Vantage M41 Reverse Osmosis (RO) System for industrial applications to Asia. The energy and space efficient Vantage M41 is suitable for production of process ingredient water, rinse water, food ingredient water, safe drinking water, boiler fe ...

Yesterday evening Altaeros Energies, a Somerville-based wind power company announced that it has raised $7 million in new funding. The new funding comes from Japan-based telecommunications company SoftBank, a telecommunications giant which is the parent company of Sprint. SoftBank also owns the largest stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Altaeros, which was founded in 2010 at MIT, used high altitude winds t ...

Hanwha SolarOne is set to build a new solar photovoltaic module factory in South Korea. The company will invest $12 million in the facility which will have an annual manufacturing capacity of 230 megawatts of solar modules. The facility is scheduled to begin production by the second quarter of 2015. Hanwha SolarOne will hire around 200 new employees to work in the facility, including research and developmen ...

ABB has designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned a 1.2MV circuit breaker--the highest AC voltage level in the world--at the national test station constructed by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), India's central transmission utility, at Bina, Madhya Pradesh. Once the ultrahigh-voltage switchgear is fully operational, it will have a switching capacity of 10.4GW--a switch capable o ...

Clean water is in short supply in Singapore and therefore innovative thinking is necessary, as the city-state ensures its access to the scarce resource. Grundfos has received a good 1.2 million euro to sophisticate a brand new technology in which the waste water is treated through sludge. The cleansed water can help ease the strain on the water resources in the area. At the beginning of next year, Grundfos ...

On the 1st of November 2014, Bangladesh suffered an electricity blackout that lasted 10 hours, making it one of the worst power failures in the country’s history. Although the current government has made significant improvements in the generation of electricity in recent years, which has increased from 4,130 MW in 2007 to 8,525 MW in 2013 , this was the fourth blackout and load shedding is still a reality w ...

Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation says that it is interested in developing a nuclear power plant (PLTN) project in Indonesia in the future. “We have met with officials from BATAN [National Nuclear Energy Agency] for this partnership,” Russian Federation senior trade expert representative Sergey Kukushkin said in Jakarta on Thursday as quoted by kontan.co.id. He said that places like Batam, Ba ...