Nine years of one solar chemistry, and a module that reaches 760 watts
Dinto Solar, spun out of a state research institute, says its heterojunction modules now reach 760 W as it works toward…
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A solar cell that borrows a bacterium's light-harvesting protein
Researchers at Indonesia's national research agency are building a bio-solar cell around a photosynthetic protein from…
Who counts the materials that go into a chip
SEMI's materials survey puts global revenue at a record USD 73.2 billion in 2025, with Taiwan the largest buyer for a…
At a European solar fair, a Chinese institute sells the whole grid
CRRC Zhuzhou Institute brought generation, storage and hydrogen equipment to Intersolar Europe, presented as a single…
A Japanese satellite ordered for 2027, built to last fifteen years
SKY Perfect JSAT has contracted Thales Alenia Space to build JSAT-32, a geostationary satellite designed to replace…
A sodium-ion cell for grid storage, with mass production a year away
Hithium has launched a sodium-ion battery for utility-scale storage and projected a cycle life that only long operation…
A 1.5 GWh battery order in the Philippines, signed and shipped in two months
Sungrow will supply Citicore Renewable Energy with 1.5 GWh of battery storage, which the two companies call the largest…
China's first hundred-megawatt-hour sodium-ion storage plant begins operation
Sineng supplied the power conversion for a 50 MW/100 MWh sodium-ion battery plant in Hubei, the first storage station…
Japan will build a pressurised rover for the Moon, for Artemis VII
NASA and Japan's science ministry have signed an arrangement that trades a lunar rover for seats on the surface for…
Biofuels from cassava and sorghum, and the land they would need
Pertamina says Indonesia's biofuels should come from sugarcane, corn, cassava and sorghum, as it carries its energy…
A drag sail that would bring small satellites down sooner
Axelspace's D-SAIL, a membrane that unfurls to shorten a satellite's time in orbit, has been selected for a JAXA…
An energy company's emissions cut, measured against its own 2010
Pertamina told COP27 it had cut emissions by nearly 29 per cent against 2010, and is aiming for 30 per cent by 2030 on…