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A polarization-driven guide to making high-performance, versatile solar cells
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
It is, however, not easy to combine efficiency with flexibility. For a material (usually a semiconductor) to be efficient, it must have a small "band gap"--the ...
KDC Solar Completes 1.6-Megawatt Solar Power Carport System for CentraState Medical
Jan 01, 2021 (SPX)
Together with the 7 MW ground mount system, commissioned in 2014 and the 3.9 MW solar carport system, commissioned in 2019, all developed and built by KDC Solar...
Japan's renewable energy sector seeks carbon-neutral windfall
Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)
Since announcing the 2050 target in November, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government has pledged to spend $20 billion on green tech and set ambitious new wi...
Trina Solar Vertex Super Factory: The power inside
Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)
By the end of 2020, Trina Solar will see its 210mm-module production capacity exceeding 22GW, and will further overshoot 50GW in 2021 across the globe. Developm...
Peachtree Corners gets first road surface solar panels on autonomous vehicle lane
Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)
"As further reinforcement of Peachtree Corners' leadership in introducing and developing the latest technologies in a real-world environment, we're excited to h...
Goldilocks and the three quantum dots: Just right for peak solar panel performance
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
Quantum dots, man-made nanocrystals 100,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper, can be used as light sensitisers, absorbing infrared and visible light and tran...
Utica Leaseco agrees to Ubiquity Solar acquiring rights to Alta Devices assets
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
Ubiquity Solar intends to relocate the GaAs Assets to the eastern USA to be close to Ubiquity's Canadian operations. Ubiquity's site-selection process is based ...
New energy conversion layer for biosolar cells
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
For the work, the RUB group consisting of Panpan Wang, Dr. Fangyuan Zhao, Dr. Julian Szczesny, Dr. Adrian Ruff, Dr. Felipe Conzuelo and Professor Wolfgang Schuh...
Regulating off-centering distortion maximizes photoluminescence in halide perovskites
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
The extraordinary electronic and optical properties that halide perovskites possess have revolutionized next-generation photovoltaics and optoelectronics' prosp...
Ecoppia Signed Another Significant Project Of 450MW With Solar Leader Azure Power
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
Despite the ongoing global pandemic, Ecoppia secured new projects for more than 10GW in the last four quarters, maintaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
India's Modi lays foundations for renewable energy megapark
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The vast project in the Kutch region of western Gujarat state spread over an area of 72,600 hectares (180,000 acres) -- the size of Singapore -- will contain so...
New blended solar cells yield high power conversion efficiencies
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
The efficiency of a solar cell is determined by comparing how much electricity is generated to how much light is incident upon the cell. This is referred to as ...
Perovskite silicon tandem solarcells at threshold of 30 percent efficiency
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
In the beginning of 2020, a team headed by Prof. Steve Albrecht at the HZB broke the previous world record for tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon...
Harvesting the sun's energy for clean drinking water
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
A more nascent technology shows promise as an alternative for such regions of the world: direct solar steam generation (DSSG). DSSG involves harvesting the heat...
Shining a light on what's really happening in perovskite solar cells
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are attractive materials for use in solar cells because they are easy and cheap to prepare and absorb light over a wide ran...
RIT Professor Seth Hubbard receives DOE grant to develop low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells
Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)
Professor Seth Hubbard received nearly $400,000 from the DOE to attempt to dramatically reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells by using a process called...
Outdoor solar testing maybe the IoT for Photovoltaics
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
When solar cells are developed, they are "current-voltage" tested in the lab before they are deployed in panels and systems outdoors. Once installed outdoors, t...
Environmental value of renewable energy varies from place to place
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
Some places will gain greater environmental benefits from renewable energy sources than others, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature ...
Early, steady investment in wind, solar best way to decarbonize economy
Dec 04, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, researchers at Aarhus University used high-resolution data to model the decarbonization of the sector-coupled European energy system -- that is t...
Slimming down solar cells
Dec 03, 2020 (ESA)
The activity tested a method where the surface of the Germanium substrate is treated so that a cavity is introduced just below it. Once a solar cell is grown on...
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