"It is crucial to rapidly move over to cleaner energy sources, and what better than the sun?" Researchers make unexpected ...

Eddie Curran, CEO of GreenFox Energy, argues that the high cost of grid electricity makes heat pumps unfeasible unless paired with solar panels.

Molten salt flowing through the receiver is heated to run a generator. Other solar technologies are passive. For example, big windows placed on the sunny side of a building allow sunlight to heat ...

A group of researchers from MIT World Peace University in India has conducted an extensive review of all direct expansion solar heat pump (DX-SHP) technology for domestic heating applications like ...

The British Library has installed solar technology across its roof, which it hopes will reduce the building’s CO2 emissions by 55 tonnes a year. The energy generated will be used for heating and ...

We can sometimes use the sun’s energy directly, like when we design homes to take advantage of passive solar heat. But when we want to use it for technology, we need ways to convert the sun’s ...

A solar PV farm that will electrify the heating system at the Coca-Cola plant in Ballina has received the green light from ...

26 Sep A UK startup company called Caldera is building a new type of heat ‘megacell’ that it says could help industry switch off the gas and use super cheap solar power instead. megacells made ...

Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center for Solar Energy High-value Utilization and Green Conversion, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Crystalline and Energy Conversion Materials, China ...

The proposed approach was simulated through TRNSYS software in an existing solar-assisted district heating system in the Danish city of Ørum. The system consists of a ground-mounted solar thermal ...