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Toward making semitransparent solar cells the size of windows
In an essential step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows, researchers at the University of Michigan have actually created a way to produce their very reliable and semitransparent solar cells.
Jul 20, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, efficiency, University of Michigan, Stephen Forrest
Unlocking the Potential: C60 ETLs Revolutionize Perovskite Solar Cells
Discover the breakthrough in solar cell technology: a perovskite-silicon tandem cell with a thermally evaporated C60 electron transport layer. Achieving an impressive 30.90% efficiency, this innovation could revolutionize the industry.
Jan 26, 2024 // Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, solar cells, perovskite, KAUST, Princeton University, Marmara University, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Nano-C
Chile's CEME1 Solar Farm: Powering the Future
Generadora Metropolitana's CEME1 solar farm in Chile is set to be the largest in the country, powering over half a million homes with clean energy by 2024.
Mar 18, 2024 // Plants, Chile, South america, PV Power Plant
800 MW of the Al-Maktoum solar park inaugurated
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President as well as Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has actually ushered in the advancement facility and also 800 MW of the third building and construction phase of the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA).
Nov 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, UAE, Solar Park, Al-Maktoum solar park
CRISIL Report on The New Power Pair in Town
As the federal government continues to concentrate on boosting the share of renewable resource in the nation, nearly 15,000 MW of wind-solar crossbreed capability is anticipated ahead up over the next 5 years, a new report by CRISIL has actually exposed. Out of this 15,000 MW, works on almost 10,000 MW are currently either unfinished or are hurting and also are expected to begin feeding the grid by financial 2024.
Jun 15, 2020 // Market Research, USA, Spain, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, Netherlands, North America, CRISIL
Huge solar projects are back in the United States
The variety of 100 MW-plus solar projects is swiftly raising in the U.S. And if there's one solar sector that can weather a pandemic, it's utility-scale photovoltaics.
Apr 29, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Geronimo Energy, First Solar, North America, baywa r.e., Origis Energy, ConnectGen, Caton Fenz, PV power plans, Belltown Power Texas
Energyra works on restarting PV factory in the Netherlands
The insolvent photovoltaic manufacturer is still talking to potential investment partners, but it claims that it could resume PV module production at its shuttered factory in the Dutch municipality of Zaanstad on short notice.
Nov 29, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Europe, Netherlands, Energyra, Daniel Kuijk
Cincinnati is developing the biggest American municipal solar project
Cincinnati is going to build the biggest municipal solar field in the country to supply renewable electricity to all the facilities throughout the city and serve the population via the Electric Aggregation Program. When put into operation, the solar plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts is expected to decrease the annual CO2 emission of the region by 158 thousand tons.
Nov 26, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, USA, North America, Cincinnati
Carbon nanotubes lead the way for silicon in storage
Researchers in the United States have actually established a carbon nanotube approach of producing a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode. The gadget apparently showed far better than 87% capability retention after 1,500 cycles. The designers claim their exploration gets over a number of the challenges to using silicon as an anode as well as might open making use of various other products for electrodes in lithium-ion gadgets
Apr 2, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, silicon, North America, lithium-ion battery, PNNL, Rice University, carbon nanotube method
Largest solar plant in Italy links into the grid
103MW center in Apulia took a year to develop as well as covers exact same location as 200 football pitches
Jun 25, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Grids, Italy, pv power plants, Europe, Knud Erik Andersen, Alessandro Migliorini
Pressing the boundaries of PV cell level of sensitivity
Researchers in Australia and also the United States have taken care of to 'upconvert' light from below the silicon bandgap right into high-energy light that can be caught by silicon solar cells.
Jul 23, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Australia, Oceania, North America, Tim Schmidt, Jared Cole, Elham Gholizadeh
Electrifying Australian Trucks: The Key to Slashing Transport Emissions
New study reveals electric trucks as the top choice for slashing road transport emissions, with potential cuts of 75-85% over their lifespan. Hydrogen trucks lag behind, and their future remains uncertain.
Jan 19, 2024 // Transport, Australia, Oceania, truck
DuPont on the hunt for Aussie field survey partners
Over the last decade, DuPont has surveyed more than 2 GW of PV installations and has analyzed a range of failure types and their causes. Hong-Jie Hu, DuPont’s solar technical and development lead in China, says that the materials giant is looking for Australian partners for its Global Field Survey program, with a particular interest in hot and humid and desert environments.
Oct 16, 2019 // Solar, China, Asia, Hong-Jie Hu, DuPont
The unclear influence of battery storage space on discharges
UNITED STATE scientists have actually checked out whether power storage space implementation might in fact increase greenhouse gas discharges in the short-term in some power markets. The truth the existing literary works thinks about just the send off of power from storage space centers in the present fossil fuel-renewables power mix, however, can downplay the long-lasting discharges decrease advantages of such centers.
Mar 5, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America
Solar pioneer Pierre Verlinden: The big problem is apathy
On the first day of this year’s EU PVSEC conference, veteran solar researcher Pierre J Verlinden won the Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics. The award recognized more than 40 years as a leading PV researcher in academia and at leading companies including Sunpower and Trina Solar. Its recipient spoke to pv magazine about what is needed from solar to stave off catastrophic climate change.
Sep 11, 2019 // Opinions, SunPower, China, Europe, Asia, wafers, Trina Solar, PERC, eu pvsec, Pierre Verlinden