Tag: Energy
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Ohio Fights Back After Becoming the Nation’s Fracking Waste Dump
Ohio is home to 190,000 of the 680,000 fracking fluid disposal wells nationwide. Last year, more than 14 million barrels of the toxic waste were injected into …
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Federal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Pollution Loophole
On Friday, a key federal court ruling confirmed that Clean Air Act limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution apply to industrial facilities that burn biomass, including tree-burning power plants …
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New Record Efficiency For Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
A new efficiency record for dye-sensitized solar cells has been achieved by researchers at EPFL in Switzerland — the new record of 15% has now been achieved thanks to a new fabrication process created by the researchers. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a very promising type of solar cell — largely as a result of…
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NRG Solar Achieves Commercial Operation of Two Solar PV Projects in California
NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, today announced that two of the solar photovoltaic facilities the company acquired from Recurrent Energy earlier this year have reached commercial operation. The two California based solar PV facilities, totaling 40 megawatts (AC), deliver electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas & Electric…
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$54 Million For New York State Solar Projects
New York solar news from Jake Richardson at CleanTechnica.