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Organic solar cells reach record efficiency, benchmark for commercialization
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
This level of efficiency is in the range of many solar panels, or photovoltaics, currently on the market. "Organic photovoltaics can potentially cut way down on...
Sea of solar panels turns Mexican desert green
Apr 23, 2018 (AFP)
But this is no mirage -- it's the largest solar park in Latin America. With 2.3 million solar panels -- covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the ...
New production concept for building-integrated solar modules drastically reduces costs
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
In the BIPV-Fab project, the equipment manufacturer SCHMID and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE investigated possibilities for manufacturin...
Energy conversion: Optical 'overtones' for solar cells
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Semiconductors are nowadays the most prominent materials to convert solar light into usable electric energy. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that...
Lockheed Martin and Rovsing collaborate to bring solar array simulators to market
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Rovsing offerings a versatile, highly modular and efficient testing system for high-power solar arrays, which are used for Earth observation, science or telecom...
New research could literally squeeze more power out of solar cells
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
The paper entitled the "Flexo-Photovoltaic Effect" was written by Professor Marin Alexe, Ming-Min Yang, and Dong Jik Kim who are all based in the University of ...
As Illinois Turns To Clean Energy, Sunrun Offers Rooftop Solar and Jobs
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Long considered to be one of the most industrious and productive states in the country, Illinois is a prime contender for a robust and valuable home solar marke...
ESPResSo aims to make perovskite solar cells affordable
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The ESPResSo consortium has been granted over 5M euro by the European Union to overcome the limitations of today's state-of-the-art perovskite PV technology, br...
DoE offers $20 Million in New Projects to Lower Cost of Power Electronics in Solar
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
These innovations are critical to address solar photovoltaic (PV) reliability challenges, as well as to drive down the cost of installing and maintaining a PV s...
MicroLink Devices Achieves Certified 37.75% Solar Cell Power Conversion Efficiency
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The 37.75% efficiency is the highest reported for a triple junction ELO solar cell produced on a 6-inch GaAs substrate production platform. The specific power o...
A whispering gallery for light boosts solar cells
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
The coating, applied with a technique that could be incorporated into manufacturing, opens a new path for developing low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells with ...
Double perovskites in environmentally friendly solar cells
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
Research groups around the world have recognised the potential of perovskites as one of the most promising materials for the development of cheap, environmental...
Perovskite technology is scalable, but questions remain about the best methods
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
"It is scalable," said Kai Zhu, a materials science researcher at NREL. "We just need to demonstrate efficiency and yield at a large-scale to move the technolog...
High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
Following an original device concept, Mr. Joyprokash Chakrabartty, the researchers have developed this new composite thin film material which combines two diffe...
Light 'relaxes' crystal to boost solar cell efficiency
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
A collaboration led by Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory found that to be the case with a perovskite compound touted as an efficient material t...
Schneider Electric launches Villaya containerized microgrids
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
Villaya is a containerized, transportable plug and play solar solution that overcomes the challenges of traditional solar installations including 20-year minimu...
World added more solar than fossil fuel generating capacity in 2017
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Solar power also attracted far more investment, at $160.8 billion, up 18 per cent, than any other technology. It made up 57 per cent of last year's total for al...
US-based Longroad Energy Selects Greenbyte for Data Management
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
Longroad Energy, based in Boston, MA, is a developer, owner and operator of renewable energy assets in the US. Prior to the formation of the company in 2016, th...
Freedom Solar project at Northtown Plaza will save owners more than $1.25 million
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The project at Northtown Professional Plaza, a commercial office building in the heart of the Laredo at 6999 McPherson Road, is comprised of approximately 1,008...
meeco to install 7 MWp sun2fix Open Access renewable energy generation plant in India
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The Open Access model provides a way by which renewable solar power can be wheeled across the state to accommodate situations where the energy intensive custome...
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