Energy news, May 2013

Organic polymers show sunny potential

New university partnership to support industry and government on offshore wind

Three of Scotland’s east coast universities are combining their expertise and experience – and advantage of location – to launch a new institute they say a

3B’s HiPer-tex W2020 wind blade roving obtains GL approval

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has approved 3B's HiPer-tex™ W2020 high-performance direct roving, which is used in the manufacture of wind turbine blades.

Siemens: Europe can save €45bn by optimising renewable energy generation

Siemens – which is hosting six Round Table discussions around the globe to discuss levers for optimising energy systems worldwide – says if regional charac

Add boron for better batteries

WWEA: 100 countries now using wind power

The 2012 report by the World Wind Energy Association shows 100 countries are using electricity generated by wind turbines, with Iceland recently becoming t

Largest US federal wind farm to be built by Siemens

Siemens has been awarded a contract to construct the US's largest state-run wind farm.

WALiD project to introduce thermoplastic composites into offshore wind turbine blades

A European consortium has secured €3,964,797 of EU funding to research the replacement of thermoset composites with thermoplastic composites in certain com

Biomaterial shows promise for diabetes treatment

Iberdrola completes the geotechnical study for 400MW German offshore wind farm; lands South Africa solar PV project deal

Spanish energy company Iberdrola has completed a geotechnical feasibility study for its Wikinger offshore wind project in German – a key milestone in the o

A giant leap to polymer solar cell commercialization?

Improving quality control of lithium-ion batteries

Winners announced

Graphene and friends could harness the Sun’s energy

Top 10 Materials News from April 2013

Invenergy to test out GE’s Brilliant wind turbine with integrated battery storage

The first order for GE’s new 2.5-120 brilliant wind turbines has been announced - Invenergy has ordered three units as part of an 86-turbine deal with GE f

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