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SPIC and Piaui Govt Unveil 446-MWp Solar Park
Marangatu Solar Complex lights the way for sustainable energy in Brazil, attracting green industries and international partnerships for a brighter future.
Jun 10, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, SPIC, PV Power Plant, Piaui Govt
Star Catcher Secures $12.2m for Space Energy Grid
Revolutionizing space energy with the Star Catcher Network, Star Catcher Industries Inc secures $12.2 million in funding for a brighter future in Low Earth Orbit.
Jul 30, 2024 // Grids, Star Catcher
Smartenergy Expands to Abu Dhabi: Green Hydrogen Investment Soars
Smartenergy's expansion to Abu Dhabi marks a strategic move to tap into global financial markets and drive renewable energy investments in industries like aviation and maritime.
Apr 19, 2024 // Solar to Fuel, Abu Dhabi, Smartenergy
Element Energy Soars with $111M Series B Funding
Element Energy just closed a $111 Million Series B investment to deploy its adaptive battery management systems. Co-led by a US clean energy giant & Cohort Ventures, it will use the funds to power 1st & 2nd life batteries, explore EV batteries, & acquire 2+ GWh of lightly-used EVs.
Nov 15, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Element Energy
Researchers open affordable product from solar cells to adjust light for market
Scientists in Australia have actually discovered a means to control laser light at a portion of the expense of present innovation.
Feb 19, 2020 // Technology, Australia, solar cells, Oceania, perovskites, Girish Lakhwani
Kesterite Supplies A Pathway To Greener Solar Cells
Kesterite is a natural mineral with numerous vital product residential or commercial properties, including a band space that can be utilized as a light absorber material for next generation thin-film solar cells.
Jun 3, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cell, thin-film solar cell, efficiency, IIITDM, Kesterite, SRM University, University of Oldernburg
‘Energy storage is not enough, a renewables grid needs flexible gas back-up’
The managing director of London-based energy infrastructure company Statera has told pv magazine a clean energy grid in the U.K. will require as much flexible gas plant capacity as battery storage.
Sep 1, 2019 // Plants, Storage, Grids, storage, UK, Europe, flexible gas plant, Statera, Tom Vernon
EDF joins Downing on 50MW UK storage space
Energy company selected as route-to-market and trading companion on the battery project
Feb 22, 2021 // Storage, UK, EDF, Europe, Adam Clarke, Sean Moore, Philip Dedman, Danny Kim
USTC makes development in solar cell performance
A study team led by Prof. CHEN Tao and also Prof. ZHU Changfei, and also their partner Prof. HAO Xiaojing at UNSW, created a hydrothermal deposition approach for the synthesis of antimony selenosulfide for solar cell applications. With this absorber material, the solar cell break the 10% benchmark performance obstacle. This outcome has actually been released in Nature Energy entitled "Hydrothermal deposition of antimony selenosulfide thin films enables solar cells with 10% performance".
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, China, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, Chen Tao, Hao Xiaojing, ZHU Changfei
Solving seasonal storage with aluminum cycling
Scientists at Switzerland’s University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil have demonstrated an aluminum conversion process which could be valuable for long-term renewable energy storage. Simulations suggest that by employing the process, a new multi-family building in Switzerland could meet all its energy demand from a 7-11 kWp solar system.
Jan 23, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Europe, hydrogen, Switzerland, Aluminum, University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
A nanoparticle-sensitized solar cell with 8.5% effectiveness
The record feat compares to usual figures of 2-3% for such devices. The Taiwanese scientists who developed the cell said it was prepared with the Silar method and is based on a ternary metal sulfide-alloyed semiconductor. They claim performance could be further boosted.
Feb 18, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, Taiwan, efficiency
The ballooning potential of curved solar cells
Researchers in the U.S. claim to have developed a manufacturing process based on the use of a latex balloon that could lead to the production of more efficient curved electronic devices, including hemispherical solar cells.
Sep 27, 2019 // Technology, USA, Texas, Colorado, North America, flexible PV, hemispherical solar cells
Oxbridge scientists seek to explain electron dynamics in perovskite cells
Researchers from the two prestigious U.K. universities are analyzing spatiotemporal charge-carrier dynamics in the perovskite materials used for solar applications. They have discovered the carriers propagate ballistically over 150nm within 20fs of photon absorption.
Dec 18, 2019 // Technology, UK, Oxford University, solar cells, Europe, perovskite
Swiss scientists identify causes of defects in silicon carbides for power electronics
Carbon clusters of a few nanometers in size could be responsible for the defects affecting the thermal stability of SiCs. The defective carbon accumulations arise during the oxidation of silicon carbide to silicon dioxide under high temperatures
Sep 13, 2019 // Technology, Inverters, Europe, Switzerland, carbon, Dipanwita Dutta
Researchers in China give flexible perovskites a backbone
A group of scientists led by Nanchang University in China trialed a polymer based opening transportation layer to flexible perovskite solar cells, making use of a glue to connect it to the active perovskite. The group had the ability to construct the 19.87%- reliable cells right into a little flexible component appropriate for wearable solar applications, and claims its style was influenced by the structure as well as activities of human vertebrae.
Jun 18, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Asia, solar cell, flexible, perovskites, Nanchang University











