Power and Electrical Engineering

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World premiere: Medium-voltage string inverter for photovoltaics

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has developed and successfully commissioned the world’s first medium-voltage string inverter for large-scale power plants. By feeding power into the medium-voltage grid,…

IIT’s first ever-made rechargeable edible battery

… nominated on TIME’s 2023 list of Best Innovations. This is the first time for a prototype stemming from a research center based in Italy to be acknowledged in TIME’s…

Solar farms in space are possible

It’s viable to produce low-cost, lightweight solar panels that can generate energy in space, according to new research from the Universities of Surrey and Swansea. The first study of its…

New method to create stable, efficient next-gen solar cells

Next-generation solar materials are cheaper and more sustainable to produce than traditional silicon solar cells, but hurdles remain in making the devices durable enough to withstand real-world conditions. A new…

Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers

The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-​products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases large…

Clean and safe power for data centres

Kiel University and Trinity College Dublin receive €2.5 million EU funding to develop particularly reliable and sustainable transformers. When power fails in data centres, the damage is often great: not…

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