Environmental and storage issues make photovoltaic technology critical in next-generation energy consumption. The rapid developments of various photovoltaics—such as silicon-based, thin …
Here, after taking temporal matching of supply and demand (60 min), land use, and government policy into account and assuming lossless transmission, we demonstrate that deploying wind …
Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. …
The Electric Spring technology developed is a new breakthrough that can stabilize future power systems with substantial wind and solar power generation. Mechanical springs have been commonly used in daily life, such as the …
The Electric Spring technology developed is a new breakthrough that can stabilize future power systems with substantial wind and solar power generation. Mechanical springs have been …
The solar chimney system for power generation - also known as Solar Chimney Power Plant (SCPP) - is an alternative solar thermal power technology. The buoyancy-driven airflow - as a …
Here, after taking temporal matching of supply and demand (60 min), land use, and government policy into account and assuming lossless transmission, we demonstrate that deploying wind …
A concentrated solar power (CSP) generator is a renewable energy-based unit equipped with thermal energy storage. The use of such generation has been widely advocated as a …
This presentation gives an overview of concetrated solar thermal technology for power generation, processing of fuels and materials, environmental separations, and energy storage, along with …
Over the past five years, its efficiency in converting solar energy into electricity has improved significantly, from around 10% to over 20%. This progress is largely attributed to the …
Recently, the development of new acceptor molecules (such as Y6 or BTP-4F) have led to a significant advancement in OSC research. When blended with donor polymers, solar power conversion efficiency (PCE) of …
Over the next decades, solar energy power generation is anticipated to gain popularity because of the current energy and climate problems and ultimately become a …
Solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation is the process of converting energy from the sun into electricity using solar panels. Solar panels, also called PV panels, are …
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) solar car team – Helios, won the Overall Champion Award and Innovative Design award of the "New Energy New Generation" solar car …
Solar thermal power, the area that has traditionally driven developments in concentrating solar technologies, experiences renewed research interests, primarily in the context of large-scale …
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKU. His multidisciplinary research group at HKU focuses on the study and …
His multidisciplinary research group at HKU focuses on the study and development of optoelectronic and photonic devices with applications in solar energy, wearable electronics …
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today announced its latest commitment to being a sustainability leader in Hong Kong by launching a renewable energy project that will include the installation …
"Wind is a more efficient power source compared with solar energy. Wind turbines release less Co2, consume less energy and produce more energy overall so it has great potential." Under a …
The increasing use of intermittent renewable energy sources to decarbonize electric power generation is expected to introduce dynamic instability to the mains. This situation is of …
One important application is to create green energy, such as solar and wind power, which accounts for less than 1 % of the electricity produced by local power companies.