Black and blue: different silicon drops cost of solar cells
HOUGHTON — At the end of one of the hottest summers on record, as fights rage on about how to power homes, renewable solar energy continues to present as an …
Offsetting coal would take covering nearly the whole country in forests: MTU study
HOUGHTON – How many fields of switchgrass and forests of trees would be needed to offset the energy produced by burning coal? A lot, it turns out. While demand for …
Energy innovation group sets sixth annual awards gala
LANSING — The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council (EIBC) will hold its sixth annual Michigan Energy Innovators Gala on Nov. 14 at Michigan State University’s Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, …
Farm sunshine, not cancer: Michigan Tech study explores turning tobacco fields to solar arrays
HOUGHTON — Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological …
MSU prof: Transparent solar is the wave of the future
EAST LANSING — See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as bigger, bulkier rooftop solar …
New Report: Rooftop Solar Provides Benefits to Michigan’s Electric Grid
LANSING – Utility customers with rooftop solar systems, known as solar distributed generation (DG), are providing economic support to Michigan’s electric grid and should not be overcharged to support it. …
Michigan Tech Study Shows Ditching Coal for Solar Saves Lives — AND Money
HOUGHTON — In a new study published in the academic journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.119), a team from Michigan Technological University calculated the cost of combusting coal …
Michigan Tech Research: Solar Can Aid Military Security Affordably
HOUGHTON — Vulnerabilities in the power grid are one of the most prevalent national security threats. The technical community has called for building up the resiliency of the grid using …
MSU Engineering Students Working On New Solar Project, To Save University $10M
EAST LANSING — Construction on a new solar array project – a venture that could save the university $10 million over 25 years – has started at Michigan State University.
Solar energy jobs in Michigan jump 48% in 2016
LANSING – The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, a trade association for renewable energy companies, announced Monday that a new report from the Solar Foundation found that jobs in Michigan’s …