A significant increase in wind and especially solar energy and a sharp drop in electricity consumption in recent months has saved the European Union from a worse energy crisis in 2022. This is the conclusion reached by British environmental and energy think tank Ember in its "European Electricity Review" analysis of the EU's electricity market. Accordingly, wind power and photovoltaics contributed more than a fifth (22 percent) to consumption for the first time. Meanwhile, the revival of coal feared for...
Greece Photovoltaics on cars and clothing: Solar panels from the printer are about to be mass-produced Stergios Logothetidis (2nd from right) and his research team want to mass-produce semi-transparent photovoltaics. It is intended to generate electricity on window panes, cars and clothing, for example. ©Organic Electronics Technologies Researchers in Greece want to mass-produce photovoltaics using 2D printers. The "third generation" solar panels are significantly thinner than conventional systems and at the same time flexible. You can even attach them to...
A significant increase in wind and especially solar energy and a sharp drop in electricity consumption in recent months saved the European Union from a worse energy crisis in 2022. This is the conclusion reached by British environmental and energy think tank Ember in its "European Electricity Review" analysis of the EU's electricity market. Accordingly, wind power and photovoltaics contributed more than a fifth (22 percent) to consumption for the first time. Meanwhile, the revival of coal feared for climate...
The almost permanent call by the Greens to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies is increasingly being met with open opposition from nature conservationists in Bavaria. The latest example is the motion by the Greens in the state parliament, according to which the state government should now also release landscape protection areas for the construction of open-space photovoltaic systems, provided that nature conservation does not oppose this. The State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) goes too far. He is vehemently...
The almost permanent call by the Greens to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies is increasingly being met with open opposition from nature conservationists in Bavaria. The latest example is the motion by the Greens in the state parliament, according to which the state government should now also release landscape protection areas for the construction of open-space photovoltaic systems, provided that nature conservation does not oppose this. The State Association for Bird Protection (LBV) goes too far. He is vehemently...
Solar powered electric car Sono Motors and Lightyear: The Failure of the Solar Cars A Lightyear vehicle at CES in Las Vegas in early January © UPI Photo / Imago Images Sono Motors and Lightyear: Both want to make long charging times and range problems a thing of the past with a solar car. However, your plans are in jeopardy. The solar-powered electric cars are in danger of failing. "We failed," said Laurin Hahn, co-founder and CEO of Sono Motors,...
Between them, they could well invent a new model of Amap. Like the organic baskets between a farmer and a local group of consumers, residents of Simiane-Collongue, a village between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, have decided to come together to share the solar electricity produced by the 'One. Two. Their Amep (association for the pooling of local energy) was thus born last July, with already visible results on the electricity bill - between 15% and 25% saved over the summer period...
Hundreds of thousands of apartment buildings in Germany could produce their own solar power - if it weren't for the tax law. And the real estate companies also contribute to the fact that little progress is made. source site
from Claus Hulverscheidt, Berlin, and Stephan RadomskyA study by the Bertelsmann Foundation is not usually a work that gets people too excited. Markus Weidling, however, was enthusiastic when he heard about the new energy transition report from the Gütersloh think tank last week. In it, experts from the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum show that German tax law often enough does not promote the widely publicized phase-out of the country from the use of fossil fuels, but on the contrary actually...
own power Invisible solar energy - Italian company builds terracotta bricks with solar cells The solar tiles are indistinguishable from the originals. ©PR Normal solar panels are unthinkable on listed buildings. The solution was found in Italy: they build solar tiles that look just like the terracotta ones. Pompeii Park installs the invisible collectors. Terracotta bricks have been a feature of Mediterranean cities since the days of the Empire. The idea that these historic roofs are spoiled by black solar...
