To optimize renewable power by bridging the gap in knowledge between renewable companies and landowners, the Australian National University (ANU) has developed maps of Australia that identify places with wind and solar potential. In an email to The Epoch Times, Prof. Andrew Blakers, from the ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, said that the heat maps…

CALIFORNIA CITY—California’s precariously out-of-date hybrid power grid can’t handle the state’s growing amounts of solar and wind energy coming online, with system managers already forcing repeated cutbacks in renewables and a continued reliance on conventional energy to keep the grid stable, according to state data. The shortcomings of the transmission grid, which energy consultants in…

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have discovered a way to generate electricity from solar energy at night, potentially overcoming the problem of intermittency in solar renewable power. During the day, the Earth heats up as sunlight hits the planet, and at night this heat radiates out into the cold outer space…

FRANKFURT—Germany’s Solarwatt opened a new production line for photovoltaic modules on Thursday as part of a 100 million euro ($117 million) investment, as it promotes the convergence of the renewable power, smart home, heating, and e-mobility. The line will produce one million modules per year, enough to allow 80,000 households to meet their power needs…

The construction workers who traveled to central Kansas to erect a wind farm for utility giant American Electric Power thought it would be a good job. Then they fell victim to the troubling side of the renewable power industry. The nomadic band of workers had come to the Flat Ridge III project from Texas, Michigan…