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Germany’s Experimental Fusion Reactor Achieves Performance Breakthrough With Graphite Tiles

published: 2018-07-06 15:36

Though a controversial idea, power generation by nuclear fusion reactions continues to draw interest from the scientific community. The Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), which is a major research center in... more

Taiwan’s Solar Companies Cut Work Days and Production to Prepare for Market Downturn

published: 2018-07-06 15:21

The latest changes in China’s solar policies and feed-in tariff scheme have severely impacted the operations of photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturers located in Taiwan. Following the announcement by the island’s PV cell s... more

Longi Sells Off Distributed PV Power Assets

published: 2018-07-06 15:10

Chint New Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chint Electrics, will buy out 17 distributed PV power assets from Longi Green Energy totaling 106.3 MW in capacity at 703 million yuan, announced Chint Group on July 2, accordi... more

Toshiba's Wafer Foundry Raises Capacity of Semiconductor by 1.5 Times, in Order to Compete for EV Market Shares

published: 2018-07-05 12:04

According to Nikkei News on July 1, the market share of electronic vehicles (EV) has expanded, so electronics giants in Japan (such as Toshiba) have aggressively increased their investment on capacities of EV semicondu... more

Rumor Busted! Panasonic Expressed Willingness to Re-invest in Tesla Gigafactory

published: 2018-07-05 11:55

Rumor has it that the battery giant Panasonic might not re-invest in Tesla's Gigafactory for the sake of investment risk, according to the Japanese media. By contrast, Reuters broke news that Panasonic said on July 2 that u... more

Hyundai Forays Into Energy-Storage Market

published: 2018-07-05 10:35

Hyundai Motor announced in June decision to foray into the battery energy-storage market, via collaboration with Greensmith, a energy-storage software provider under the auspices of Finnish dynamic-system firm Wärtsilä, dis... more

Japanese Researchers Use AI-Based Model to Discover Better Polymers for Organic PV Cells

published: 2018-07-05 10:32

A major challenge in the development of organic photovoltaic (PV) cells is obtaining the polymer materials that meet the design requirements. Because there are millions of possible combinations of molecules that go into po... more

Winning Bid Prices in Taiwan’s Latest Offshore Wind Auction Are Much Lower Than Expected

published: 2018-07-04 16:38

Taiwan has set an ambitious target of establishing 5.5GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2025, and this capacity quota is being allocated via a competitive bidding process. On 22 June, Denmark’s Ø... more

In the Southwestern Taiwan Waters, Methane Ice Was Found for the First Time Ever

published: 2018-07-04 16:29

A Taiwanese research team has discovered "methane ice" in the southwest Taiwan waters for the first time ever. For now, there are two issues. First, mining technology for natural gas hydrates is not sufficien... more

France's Total S.A. Expects Natural Gas Demand to Outgrow Oil Demand in the Coming 20 Years

published: 2018-07-03 16:36

Natural gas is usually considered cleaner than coal because natural gas emits less carbon than coal or gasoline does. In the long term, natural gas' growth potential is anticipated to perform better than that of oi... more

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