March 22, 2012
…visited the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility in Nevada Wednesday, he got a first-hand look at the first large-scale solar facility equipped with solar forecasting devices called sky imagers. The devices are powered by sophisticated algorithms, which were developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The technology…
June 22, 2020
Because of silicon’s relatively high cost, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have emerged as a lower-cost and highly efficient option for solar power, according to a study by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers.
February 7, 2019
New findings about perovskites could pave the way to developing low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. Using high-intensity X-ray mapping, researchers explain why adding small amounts of cesium and rubidium salt improves the performance of perovskite solar cells.
January 27, 2022
…latest design of their solar home system before the first installation in Myanmar. Photo courtesy of Atutu. Let There be Light Alumnus earns Echoing Green Fellowship for bringing community-driven change to his native Myanmar UC San Diego electrical engineering alumnus and Echoing Green Fellow Lin Thu Hein. UC San Diego…
May 16, 2018
…built an extremely affordable solar-powered lantern to provide not only light, but a source of income to a partner village in the Philippines. Their engineering and business savvy earned them the top spot in the Energy and Resources category at the Big Ideas social innovation competition at UC Berkeley, a…
June 19, 2017
…low-cost transition to an energy system that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar and hydroelectric power? While there is growing excitement for this vision, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by 21 of the nation’s leading energy experts, including David G. Victor and…
September 29, 2014
Chemical fingerprints of the element nitrogen vary by extremes in materials from the molecules of life to the solar wind to interstellar dust. Ideas for how this great variety came about have included alien molecules shuttled in by icy comets from beyond our solar system and complex chemical scenarios.
September 29, 2014
…largest, most environmentally-friendly, battery-based energy storage systems in the nation will be installed at the University of California, San Diego the campus announced today. The 2.5 megawatt (MW), 5 megawatt-hour (MWh) system—enough to power 2,500 homes—will be integrated into the university’s microgrid, which generates 92 percent of the electricity used…
April 21, 2015
…provide a better understanding of how to improve the energy storage ability of capacitors for potential applications in cars, wind turbines, and solar power.
January 8, 2015
…pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical and energy companies all over the world. Dow, Merck, L’Oréal, biologists and engineers alike… everyone, it seems, now sees exciting applications for Almutairi’s work. The next big thing But of all this success, what Almutairi focused on most at Falling Walls, what she’s most excited about, is…
