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Solar-powered hand sanitiser wins ESA-backed hackathon
Apr 17, 2020 (ESA)
More than 12 000 people from over 100 countries took part in the Global Hack, organised by Estonian-based Garage48 and sponsored by ESA's business incubation ce...
Development of new photovoltaic commercialization technology
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
On the 30th (Monday), DGIST announced that a research team of Professor Jongmin Choi from the Department of Energy Science and Engineering and Professor Edward ...
Mississippi gives green light to 1,000-acre solar farm
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
Recurrent Energy, a solar facility manufacturer, will build the project on behalf of Entergy Mississippi, LLC. The project should be complete by no later than m...
Shedding light on dark traps
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
However, perovskites still show significant performance losses and instabilities, particularly in the specific materials that promise the highest ultimate effic...
Solar power plants get help from satellites to predict cloud cover
Apr 15, 2020 (SPX)
In this week's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP Publishing, a new method is reported for estimating cloud optical properties using data fro...
Next gen solar cells perform better when there's a camera around
Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)
The discovery opens a pathway to improved quality control for commercial production. On small scales, perovskite solar cells - which promise cheap and abundant ...
Eindhoven researchers present revolutionary light-emitting silicon
Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)
Every year we use and produce significantly more data. But our current technology, based on electronic chips, is reaching its ceiling. The limiting factor is he...
Longroad Energy completes financing for 215 MWdc Little Bear Solar Projects
Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)
"Longroad is excited to complete the financing of the Little Bear solar projects and to broaden our partnership with PKA and PenSam through AIP," said Paul Gayn...
X-rays reveal in situ crystal growth of lead-free perovskite solar panel materials
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
Two factors that significantly affect the efficiency of these solar cells are the ability to form thin films and the structure of the materials in the solar cel...
Azuri helping off-grid kids across Kenya continue classes while schools closed
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
Kenyan schools have been shut down as a measure to contain spread of the Coronavirus. With more than 15 million primary and secondary students at home, the Mini...
Stable perovskite LEDs one step closer
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
"Light-emitting diodes based on perovskites are still not sufficiently stable for practical use, but we have brought them one step closer", says Professor Feng ...
New SunLogix Virginia warehouse offers crucial storage capacity for solar energy industry
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
"This warehouse will provide the solar energy industry with important access to long-term and short-term storage space," said David DesVerney, Director of Busin...
Trina Solar announces mass production of 500W+ Duomax V and Tallmax V modules
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
The 500W+ V series modules, with a module conversion efficiency reaching 21%, boast a power output over 500W. Incorporating 210mm cells, the 500W+ V series modu...
Poland quadruples solar energy output, becomes 5th largest producer in Europe
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
Although the other 18 member states are lagging behind to meet the EU's energy plans, the majority of the members are contributing to the progress, including a ...
Bristol team develops photosynthetic proteins for expanded solar energy conversion
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
The initiative is part of a broader effort in the field of synthetic biology to use proteins in place of man-made materials which are often scarce, expensive an...
GAF Energy introduces new super high-efficiency panel for their roof-integrated solar system
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
Solaria's innovative cell technology is best-in-class for efficiency and power, giving homeowners a premium option for adding solar to their roof. By increasing...
Solis Powers 4MWs of Solar for Walmart in Mexico
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
The Walmart installations were connected to the grid during January in four Mexican cities - Aguascalientes, Leon Guanajuato, Puebla Bino and Salamanca. Generat...
On the trail of organic solar cells' efficiency
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
Solar cells are a crystallization point of high hopes for the necessary transformation of the global energy production. Organic photovoltaics (OPV), which is ba...
Nature-inspired green energy technology clears important development hurdle
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
If the necessary technology could be refined past theoretical models and lab-scale prototypes, this moonshot idea, known as artificial photosynthesis, has the p...
A new low-cost solar technology for environmental cooling
Mar 30, 2020 (SPX)
A new study comes from a research group based at the Politecnico di Torino (SMaLL) and the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM), who has proposed...
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