For a short time, it looks like Maryland-based SunEdison will own and operate the world’s largest utility-scale photovoltaic power plant in the world. To be built in the Veneto province of northeastern Italy, the 72-megawatt plant will surpass the 60-mW Olmedilla power plant in Spain and create enough solar power in its first year to [...]

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Apprehension abounds in the lead up to a second round of cuts to German solar incentives expected this summer. Major solar firms, many doing the bulk of their business in Germany, are scrambling to diversify into other markets. Many are feeling temporarily good after a rush of sales for companies looking to get in under [...]

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WonHyoung Ryu at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, working with overseas colleagues from Stanford, found an interesting way of hybridization between a green alga, Chlamydomonas, and gold nanowires, to directly collect the electrons produced through photosynthesis by the plant.

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