Israel’s OPC Energy to buy US firm Competitive Power Ventures

Its holding in CPV may be around 70%, with plans to bring in a number of institutional investors from the Israeli capital market as partners in the deal

District heating ‘wasting millions by skimping on insulation’

The developers and operators of district heating projects are wasting millions of pounds by skimping on pipe insulation. That’s according to a manufacturer of pre-insulated pipe systems, CPV, which said the standard for pipe insulation – the EN 253 – allows for three different thicknesses of foam. However most developers are going for the cheapest, thinnest foam to cut […]

Solar cell breaks world record for efficiency

The world record for solar cell efficiency has apparently been broken after a team of researchers created a cell (pictured) that can convert 44.7% of the energy in sunlight to electricity, by stacking materials that absorb different wavelengths of light on top of each other. The development was jointly announced by the Fraunhofer Institute for […]