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Kunshan GCL Achieves Record 19.04% Efficiency on Perovskite Modules
GCL's breakthrough in perovskite solar modules surpasses expectations, paving the way for a cutting-edge production line in Kunshan.
Mar 11, 2024 // Technology, perovskite, PV module, GCL, efficiency
AGEL's Khavda Solar Park: 1GW Operational, 10GW Total
AGEL shines bright with 1GW solar capacity at Khavda, showcasing rapid project delivery and innovative sustainability efforts in Gujarat.
Mar 11, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV Power Plant, AGEL
Designers show next-generation solar cells can take the heat, keep effectiveness
Perovskites with their crystal frameworks as well as encouraging electro-optical homes could be the energetic component that makes the future generation of low-cost, effective, flexible as well as light-weight solar cells.
May 5, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, perovskites, Iowa, Vikram Dalal, Harshavardhan Gaonkar
Brasil's Piaui to develop solar energy atlas
Brazil's Piaui state revealed it will certainly create an atlas of the state's solar irradiation in collaboration with research foundation Fadex.
Jul 14, 2021 // Plants, South america, Brazil, piaui, solar energy atlas
Chemists progress solar energy storage focused on global difficulties
Enhancing need for electrification in backwoods presents challenges, but additionally produces opportunities for growth of decentralized electrification systems. Compared to conventional electric grids based on large, central power generation terminals commonly used in developed countries, a decentralized approach provides lower resources cost, a smaller sized footprint as well as nimble release.
Jul 27, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, Utah State University, Tianbiao "Leo" Liu, Bo Hu, Maowei Hu, flow battery
New PV cell architecture creates resistively bounded subcells
Solar Inventions, the winners of the initial American-Made Solar Prize, strategy to commercialize their newest product, which is declared to decrease silver web content and rise module power, while potentially saving makers approximately $1 million each year.
Aug 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Benjamin Damiani
The ideal angle for e-skin energy storage
Products researchers Sungwon Lee and also Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the manufacture process with colleagues in Korea. A trick for success is splashing a specific quantity of graphene ink onto flexible substratums at a certain angle and temperature.
Oct 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Korea, DGIST, Graphene, Sungwon Lee, Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli
Surrey is leading the way in perovskite tandem solar cells
Scientists from the University of Surrey have actually exposed the considerable renovations they are making in perovskite-based solar cells. Perovskite solar cells have revealed significant capacity within the effectiveness restriction of the extensively used solar cells currently on the market by soaking up light in a more comprehensive range of wavelengths.
Oct 19, 2020 // Technology, UK, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, University of Surrey, Ravi Silva, ATI, Wei Zhang, Hui Li
New perovskite guarantees 38.7% effective tandem cells
Japanese researchers have recognized a perovskite material with a strong band edge gap and high stability which they say might offer 38.7% efficiency if utilized in the right tandem cell architecture.
Feb 4, 2020 // Technology, Japan, solar cells, Asia, perovskite
A 34% reliable dye-sensitized gadget for interior PV
A European research team has developed a dye-sensitized PV cell based on a copper iodide complex. The device was conceived for use in self-powered and internet of things devices.
Mar 6, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Sweden, Europe, solar cell, Finland
ACORE releases whitepaper on the need for a federal renewable energy standard
In a new white paper released today by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the organizations offer recommendations on how U.S. policymakers can most effectively design a federal high-penetration renewable energy standard (RES) that enhances grid reliability, creates American jobs, and increases American economic competitiveness globally.
Oct 16, 2019 // Policy, Gregory Wetstone, ACORE, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Tim Cronin
Organic dopants for a stable perovskite
Researchers at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have demonstrated a method they say could improve the stability of perovskite structures. The group found adding an organic dopant served to increase the strength of chemical bonds between organic and inorganic elements of a perovskite.
Nov 15, 2019 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, Asia, perovskite, KAUST, Aleksandra Oranskaia
Scientists discover method to improve perovskite performance and stability
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and affiliated organizations throughout the country have actually strengthened the performance of perovskite solar cells by as high as 16%.
Nov 30, 2021 // Technology, NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, Kai Zhu
Coating could lead to commercial lithium-metal batteries
A new coating developed by scientists at Stanford promises to bring lithium metal batteries ‘closer to reality’, by significantly extending their operational lifetime and limiting the occurrence of dendrites at the anode, which can cause short circuiting and fires.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, California, USA, battery, North America, Stanford University, SLAC, Lithium metal, Zhiao Yu, Yi Cui
Surrey introduces fast-charging super-capacitor modern technology
Specialists from the University of Surrey think their desire for tidy power storage space is an action more detailed after they introduced their ground-breaking super-capacitor modern technology that has the ability to supply and also keep electrical power at high power prices, specifically for mobile applications.
May 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, UK, Europe, University of Surrey, Ash Stott, Ravi Silva, Polyaniline