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Floating solar farms could help reduce impacts of climate change on lakes and reservoirs

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

However, given the complex nature of water bodies and differing designs of solar technologies, there could also be detrimental ecosystem impacts of deploying fl...

Trina Solar leading the compatibility charge in the ultra-high power era

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

In the race towards a climate-neutral economy in Europe, as set out in the EU Green Deal, Ultra High-Power solar energy systems play a vital role. The market is...

A new dye shakes up solar cells

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Simple and cheap to build while being flexible and versatile, DSSCs are already manufactured on a multi-megawatt scale, cutting a significant slice of the photo...

Is it worth investing in solar PV with batteries at home?

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Installing solar panels to offset energy costs and reduce the environmental impact of their homes has been gaining popularity with homeowners in recent years. O...

New perovskite fabrication method for solar cells paves way to large-scale production

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

"Our work paves the way for low-cost, high-throughput commercial-scale production of large-scale solar modules in the near future," said Wanyi Nie, a research s...

Sunlight Financial secures 2B in solar financing through expanded partnership with Tech CU

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

The new commitment is expected to fund approximately 75,000 solar systems, which will produce enough solar energy to avoid more than 7.5 million metric tons of ...

Study finds plants would grow well in solar cell greenhouses

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

"We were a little surprised - there was no real reduction in plant growth or health," says Heike Sederoff, co-corresponding author of the study and a professor ...

New perovskite LED emits a spin-polarized glow

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Details of the research conducted at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Utah appear in the journal Science. Researchers at NR...

Starting small to answer the big questions about photosynthesis

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Despite being discovered almost 300 years ago, photosynthesis still holds many unanswered questions for science, particularly the way that proteins organise the...

New analysis of 2D perovskites could shape the future of solar cells and LEDs

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Three-dimensional perovskites have proved themselves remarkably successful materials for LED devices and solar panels in the past decade. One key issue with the...

Seeing both sides of light collection

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

Silicon has long dominated as the premier material for solar cells, helped by its abundance as a raw material. However, perovskites, a class of hybrid organic-i...

Twisting, flexible crystals key to solar energy production

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

A key contributor to how these materials create and transport electricity literally hinges on the way their atomic lattice twists and turns in a hinge-like fash...

Clenera's Wapello solar project reaches commercial operation

Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)

Located near Wapello, the project was developed by Clenera, a company that acquires, develops, builds, and manages utility-scale solar farms and energy storage ...

Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances

Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)

Thanks to increasingly refined control of the nanoparticles' size and shape, the number of commercial applications has grown. Those already available include la...

Shedding light on perovskite films

Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)

Meanwhile, perovskite solar cells have reached an efficiency of up to 25.5 percent, which is quite close to that of silicon solar cells that are presently domin...

New smart materials could be used for sun-tracking solar panels

Mar 12, 2021 (UPI)

The technology, described Friday in the journal Nature Communications, could be used to build a variety of smart light-driven systems, including sophisticated s...

Producing highly efficient LEDs based on 2D perovskite films

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

From household lighting to mobile phone displays, from pinpoint lighting needed for endoscopy procedures to light source to grow vegetables in Space, LEDs are e...

The mystery of the missing energy solved in solar cells

Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)

Solar energy is one of the most important fossil-free and eco-friendly sustainable sources of electricity. The silicon-based solar cells currently in use can at...

White Pine Renewables completes largest floating solar farm in the US

Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)

The electricity generated by the project will cover approximately 8% of the City's total energy demand and is an important part of the City's plan to reach 60% ...

Space-starved Singapore builds floating solar farms in climate fight

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

It may be one of the world's smallest countries, but the prosperous financial hub is among the biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in Asia. And while aut...