
Energy
Electric cars and hot water systems could turn cities into giant batteries
A new study shows how electric vehicles and hot water systems could help turn urban areas into massive storage hubs, easing pressure on the power grid.
Paolo Travisi•13 August 2025

Energy
Indoor solar cells hit 40% efficiency…
Fraunhofer ISE develops a high-efficiency indoor photovoltaic cell using GaInP semiconductors, pushing…
Stefania Del Bianco•8 August 2025

Energy
Organic photovoltaic facade debuts on building…
NEXT Energy Technologies installs the world’s first integrated organic photovoltaic facade in…
Editorial Team•31 July 2025

Tech innovations and Startups
Debut of Titan Silicon, the nanocomposite silicon anode for a new era…
Californian company Sila brings to market the first high-performance replacement of the traditional graphite anode for…
15 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
From Sweden the ecological and delicate recycling of solar cells in CIGS
A new research by Chalmers University of Technology has tested a process at room temperature to…
13 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
PEDOT:PSS/Si hybrid solar cells for easier production
Silicon meets transparent and conductive organic molecules to inaugurate a new production road without vacuum and…
13 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
New type of flexible fuel cells from USA
A team of Michigan Tech scientists managed to create a "low temperature version" of the SOFC…
6 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
How to cool home? With the structural thermal battery made of wood,…
Made a new transparent wood biocomposite for thermal energy storage, which combines excellent heat storage properties,…
5 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Energy Storage: sand battery technology made in Italy, the very first application
With a storage capacity of around 13 MWh per day, the agreement between Enel X and…
3 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Natural Enzymes to Produce Green Hydrogen low cost
Experts from Swansea University and CEA Grenoble have joined forces to develop a new photo-catalytic approach…
30 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Goodbye black, in Germany comes the red photovoltaic roof
The pilot plant, created as part of the PVHide project, is composed of 224 modules coated…
28 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Solar green hydrogen: how to make water photoelectrolysis competitive
A new approach has been studied to couple the photoelectrochemical separation of water with the hydrogenation…
23 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Cellulose aerogel to increase thermal insulation of windows
A team of physicists from the University of Colorado demonstrated how aerogels made from cellulose nanofibers…
21 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Domestic salt batteries, higher capacity thanks to doping
Test different techniques to improve the performance of K2CO3 salt by increasing the charging and discharging…
17 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
The first solar cell in perovskite printed as a long roll
Thanks to a new ink, economic and scalable, scientists at Swansea University have been able to…