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DNV GL's on-site solar lab brings advanced and reliable PV testing to the field in India
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
The new service will allow asset owners to save time, reduce cost and minimize risk by enabling Flash test/I-V curve measurement and electroluminescence (EL) te...
Fighting smog supports solar power
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
The dirty air causes massive damage to human health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution contributes to around 1.6 million premature...
A 3D imaging technique unlocks properties of perovskite crystals
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
Perovskites are minerals that are of interest as electrical insulators, semiconductors, metals or superconductors, depending on the arrangement of their atoms a...
'Sun in a box' would store renewable energy for the grid
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from...
Efficient ternary all-polymer solar cells with PCE up to 9.03 percent
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Although the binary all-PSCs have abundant progress, the narrow absorption range of blend active layer hinders the device performance. With better sunlight abso...
Fine-tuning renewables could help Texas balance energy resources
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Rice undergraduate student Joanna Slusarewicz, along with environmental engineer Daniel Cohan, performed an analysis of recent peaks in production from West and...
Seeing the light: Researchers offer solution for efficiency problem of artificial photosynthesis
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
They published their results in October in Applied Energy Materials, a journal of the American Chemical Society. "With the abundance of solar energy and water, ...
Microscopic 'sunflowers' for better solar panels
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have tried to replicate such dynamic microstructures in the lab with a variety of materials, including liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), which are ru...
Aluminum nitride to extend life of solar power plants
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The tower is surrounded by heliostats - large spinning mirrors that absorb the sun`s rays and concentrate the total beam at a single point on the tower. The bea...
Brilliant iron molecule could provide cheaper solar energy
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
Some photocatalysts and solar cells are based on a technology that involves molecules containing metals, known as metal complexes. The task of the metal complex...
Green finance blooms as investors look beyond profits
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
At first sight the idea of "green finance" as a vehicle to protect the environment or help businesses in their transition towards a more sustainable future seem...
UNH researchers discover new materials to generate solar fuel production
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
"Currently we can convert sunlight into electricity using solar panels on homes and other buildings," said Gonghu Li, associate professor in chemistry and mater...
How Chile accomplished its renewable energy boom
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
An article in Policy Studies Journal helps to explain the Chilean transformation by discussing the concept of "contingent coalitions" - collective actors with c...
Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
A new analysis by MIT researchers has pinpointed what caused the savings, including the policies and technology changes that mattered most. For example, they fo...
Freedom Solar Power launches first-of-its-kind commercial solar financing vehicle in Texas
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The Freedom Financing program is based on more than a decade of experience working with hundreds of business owners to make solar work for them. Securing financ...
Solar panels for yeast cell biofactories
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The first "biological-inorganic hybrid systems" (biohybrids) mostly focused on the fixation of atmospheric carbon dioxide and the production of alternative ener...
Swiss company using concrete bricks to make renewables more stable, cheaper
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
"For the first time, it allows production of energy from renewables at a cost below fossil fuel, regardless of whether the sun is shining or the wind blowing," ...
Stretchy solar cells a step closer
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
The Rice University lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco has developed flexible organic photovoltaics that could be useful where constant, ...
New records in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through improved light management
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
For example, pyramid-shaped microfeatures can be etched into silicon. However, these features cause microscopic roughness in the silicon surface, making it no l...
Ultra-thin transparent silver films for solar cells
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
A team headed by Professor Anjana Devi and Nils Boysen from the Bochum-based research group Inorganic Materials Chemistry, in collaboration with the group of Pr...
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