Research / Energy

Gensol Knowledge Series: Solar district championships
If everything else like Project Cost and Financial Assumptions are kept equal, the expected generation from a site plays a very important role in bidding. With the bidding shortly due …
Energy sector faces increasing pressures from climate change - new report
The energy sector is facing increasing pressures from climate change. All segments of the industry will be affected by the changing global climate and the policy responses to it.
The energy, water, food nexus
With the world's population expected to reach over eight billion by 2030 and an increasingly prosperous middle class, Conservation International (CI) understands that one of the greatest global challenges is …
Comparative eco-efficiency analyses of copper to copper bonding technologies
This paper compares the eco-efficiency of Low Temperature Copper to Copper Bonding (LTCCB) technology against the Conventional Method (CM). The analyses look into the energy and material consumables consumption profiles …
Powering Asean's Growth: Trends that will impact the way Asean uses power to 2020
The Asean countries are at very different stages of economic growth. Members include a fully developed city state with nearly full national electricity coverage as well as several agrarian economies …
Making our own luck: What will it take to build an inclusive, resilient and prosperous Australia?
Sustainable Business Australia (SBA) hosted the Inaugural Fiona Wain Oration and Luncheon on 27 May 2014.
LED lighting market to grow over 12-fold to $25 billion in 2023
Driven by superior features and falling costs, the market for light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires, or optimized permanent light fixtures, will grow more than 12-fold over the next decade - from …
Balance-of-systems drives solar system capex down as much as 30 per cent by 2020
Racking and mounting cost reductions and electrical innovations will cut balance-of-system costs, with biggest drops in the residential segment, Lux Research says.
Clear skies ahead for the window films market
Window film technology is becoming adopted worldwide since its beginning in the USA in the 1950's, particularly with the rising global concern for environment protection and energy savings. These films …
Current solar technologies aren’t enough to reach SunShot’s $1/W installed goal
Boston, Ma – A look at disruptive solar innovations finds that technologies built around crystalline silicon (x-Si) modules are the most likely to find commercial success even though they won't …
Market for supercapacitors to grow 128% to $836 million in 2018
Boston, Ma – The market for supercapacitors will more than double to $836 million in 2018, up from $466 million in 2013, according to Lux Research. An emerging energy storage …
Emerging Green Mining Innovation
New breakthrough science and cost reductions from the world of cleantech hold promise for making mining—one of the dirtiest, most inefficient industries in the world—more profitable, safer and cleaner. But …
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