Energy news, January 2013

Evolution inspires more efficient solar cell design

New route to crystalline silicon

January 2013: A new year, a new Associate Editor

Silicon to produce hydrogen on demand

New Blog: EWEA 2013 conference - hot topics

EWEA 2013 is just a few weeks away. So what can conference delegates expect to be the main topics up for debate?

Fraunhofer Institute seeks automation solution for rotor blade manufacture

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have embarked on a €8 million research programme whi

Newer, cheaper, faster

Last week's top 3 Reinforced Plastics stories

The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.

Resolving toxic concerns about carbon nanotubes

Job Alert: Assistant Professor - Colorado, United States

Automatic rejection of unusable PV wafers

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EWEA gears up for 2013 event in Austria

Despite the uncertain global economy, attendance figures for EWEA 2013 are up on 2012...

Last week's top 3 Reinforced Plastics stories

The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.

GE developing fabric-based turbine blades

GE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are beginning work on a new wind

Graphene oxide soaks up radioactive waste

Wind Turbine Trends 2012 – report

MAKE Consulting's Wind Turbine Trends 2012 report provides an overview of the global wind industry’s technology trends, focusing on new product development

How the kilogram put on weight

Energy Technologies Institute appoints Blade Dynamics to develop 80-100 m wind blades

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a partnership between industry and the UK government, has announced the appointment of Blade Dynamics to develop a

New path to more efficient organic solar cells

The MT blog is back

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DONG and Vestas team up on 8 MW turbine testing

Danish energy group DONG Energy and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, also of Denmark, have entered into a cooperation agreement that will see them work to

E.ON orders four new offshore wind farm service vessels

E.ON has awarded Great Yarmouth-based Alicat Workboats a contract to build four new state of the art vessels to support its offshore wind generation portfo

US wind energy: 300MW comes online in California

Two Californian wind energy projects have reached completion, bringing 300MW of new capacity onto the state’s grid, developer MidAmerican wind said on Mond

Wind and bioenergy industries celebrate as US renewable energy tax credits saved

The renewable energy industry’s new year has kicked off to a good start after the United States’ Congress extended the wind energy Production Tax Credit (P

Iberdrola moves forward with 400MW offshore wind plan but announces sale of more onshore wind projects

Spain’s Iberdrola has selected offshore wind turbines from French giant Areva for its 400MW Wikinger offshore wind power project 35km off Germany’s Baltic

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