EcoEnergy Insights

Tesla | January 30, 2020

Tesla beat expectations with its earnings yesterday, and while its record car sales were definitely the driver, Tesla Energy returning to growth didn’t hurt, either. The company’s solar division is growing again, thanks to cheap solar subscriptions and its new Solarglass roof, and its energy storage business is doing better than ever. Since the acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, Tesla has cut down on its solar business in a massive way, resulting in a significant slowdown of installations over th...

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JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. | June 01, 2021

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers, announced today that the maximum solar conversion efficiency of its large-area N-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells reached 25.25%, establishing a new world record for large-size contact-passivated solar cells. The National Institute of Metrology in China has independently confirmed this result ("NIM"). JinkoSolar has beaten this world record three times since July 2020. Read More

The Fuel Fox | February 01, 2020

According to new figures, the world’s largest technology companies have fuelled a track rise in renewables marketed directly to international corporations the year before. Due to a growing thirst for sustainable power, clean energy from renewables developers purchased by industries has increased three times in the two previous years. The most important renewable energy buyers to fuel their data hubs were software powerhouses, like Google, Facebook, Amazon, as well as Microsoft. BloombergNEF has ...

Voa news | August 12, 2020

A team of researchers from Australia and China has developed a way to desalinate and purify salty or brackish water into potable drinking water using solar energy, a process that could provide hope for developing areas without reliable or abundant electricity. The World Health Organization says about 2 billion people worldwide do not have access to water that is safe to drink. Contaminated water can lead to cholera, dysentery, typhoid and a host of other diseases. And the WHO says that situation...