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Solar cell design with over 50 percent energy-conversion efficiency
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
This research was carried out by a team led by Professor KITA Takashi and Project Assistant Professor ASAHI Shigeo at the Kobe University Graduate School of Eng...
Experts outline pathway for generating up to 10 terawatts of power from sunlight by 2030
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), their counterparts from similar institutes in Japan and Germany, al...
Scientist invents way to trigger artificial photosynthesis to clean air
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
"This work is a breakthrough," said UCF Assistant Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo. "Tailoring materials that will absorb a specific color of light is very difficu...
Indian Space Agency Comes Up With an App Indicating Solar Power Potential
Apr 26, 2017 (Sputnik)
The computation of solar energy potential is essential for selecting locations for solar photovoltaic (PV) thermal power plants. "The use of remote sensing obse...
Ancala and Anesco deploy large scale battery at UK solar farm
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
Renewable electricity generators such as solar parks are intermittent producers of electricity. The rapid growth of renewable installations in recent years has ...
Solar power reliability in Britain boosted with batteries
Apr 24, 2017 (UPI)
Investment manager Ancala Partners and energy storage provider Anesco said their joint effort led to the completion of their first portfolio-scale deployment of...
Swedish leading solar energy technology provider Midsummer offers complete BIPV metal roof systems
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Midsummer has developed a rapid process for the production of flexible thin film solar cells using sputtering of all layers of the solar cell. This allows for s...
Adjusting solar panel angles a few times a year makes them more efficient
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
"Regardless of the perks of renewable [energy] resources, there are problems with cost and performance. Solar energy provided by photovoltaic (PV) panels is no ...
Center for Sustainable Energy Partners with EnergySage to Offer an Online Multifamily Solar Marketplace
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
The partnership has resulted in the development of an easy-to-use, online comparison-shopping tool that provides information about the unique opportunities for ...
Imec Develops Bifacial n-PERT Solar Cell with a Record 22.8 Percent Front-Side Efficiency
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Used bifacially under standard front illuminations conditions in conjunction with an additional 0.15 sun rear illumination, these cells can produce the equivale...
NREL researchers capture excess photon energy to produce solar fuels
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
Using quantum dots (QD) and a process called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG), the NREL researchers were able to push the peak external quantum efficiency for ...
NREL's new perovskite ink opens window for quality cells
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
Proven highly efficient at converting sunlight into electricity, perovskite solar cells have yet to move beyond the laboratory. The crystalline structure of per...
Shedding light on the absorption of light by titanium dioxide
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
EPFL scientists, with national and international partners, have now shed light onto the problem by a combination of cutting-edge steady-state and ultrafast spec...
Mechanism behind the electric charges generated by photosynthesis
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
The team was led by Professor KOBORI Yasuhiro (Kobe University Molecular Photoscience Research Center) and PhD student HASEGAWA Masashi (Graduate School of Scie...
NREL establishes world record for solar hydrogen production
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
The new solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency record is 16.2 percent, topping a reported14 percent efficiency in 2015 by an international team made up of researche...
Powerpedia Forms Nonprofit to Provide Free Solar Systems to Orphanages Throughout Baja Mexico and Beyond
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
"I recently had a chance to spend the day with children and volunteers at the Rancho de Los Ninos orphanage in Baja, Mexico and it was an extraordinary experien...
Americans use more clean energy in 2016
Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)
Each year, the Laboratory releases energy flow charts that illustrate the nation's consumption and use of energy. Americans used 0.1 quads (quadrillion BTU), mo...
Record new renewable power capacity added worldwide at lower cost
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017 finds that wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources added 138.5 gi...
New solar power on tap for India
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
Regional subsidiary Solairedirect India secured a contract to build a solar power project in southern India. Once completed in 2018, the French power company wi...
Upsolar Introduces its Floating Solar Technology to Europe
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Upsolar will use a structure exclusively created by Koine, a design company that specializes in floating platforms. The entire solar array is made up of Upsolar...
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