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Post-Brexit reshuffle brings to the fore brand-new head of UK power plan
Management of the UK's Department for Business, Energy as well as Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has actually altered hands, with Alok Sharma designated power assistant.
Feb 17, 2020 // Policy, UK, Europe, Brexit, boris johnson
China's Greatest IPO This Year Seems in Renewable Power
China Three Gorges system gets approval from regulatory authority. Funds will certainly be made use of for overseas wind projects, help liquidity.
Apr 26, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Ada Li, Three Gorges Renewables
Uruguay offers green hydrogen plan
Uruguay's government today offered its draft green hydrogen road map, unveiling a vision for the country to have some 10 GW of electrolysers and come to be a net exporter of affordable hydrogen and its derivatives in the decade after 2030.
Jun 16, 2022 // Solar to Fuel, South america, Uruguay, green hydrogen
3 1.2 GW solar projects under growth in the Philippines
There are at the very least 3 PV projects going beyond 1 GW in dimension that are currently under review in the Philippines, according to data from the country's Department of Energy
Sep 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Philippines, solar projects
Fraunhofer ISE Unveils LED Method To Calibrate Tandem Solar Modules
German researchers propose an LED-based procedure to measure large perovskite-silicon tandem modules more precisely, cutting handling time and cost for full-module calibration.
Aug 22, 2025 // Technology, Fraunhofer ISE, standards, perovskite-silicon tandem, LED simulators, calibration
Renewable Energy Solutions can be Backbone of Urban Decarbonization Efforts: Report
A new report by IRENA and also IKI locates that renewable resource remedies can be the foundation of urban decarbonization efforts.
Nov 5, 2020 // Market Research, IRENA, EV, Bioenergy, IKI, Urban Decarbonization
Australian researchers declare brand-new record for direct 'solar-to-hydrogen' solar cells
Australian scientists have declared a brand-new world efficiency record for solar panels that can straight split water using sunlight, in a success that opens up a new pathway to inexpensive renewable hydrogen.
Jun 17, 2020 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, Australia, solar cells, hydrogen, Oceania, Siva Karuturi, Heping Shen
Global warming will hit solar panel performance
MIT researchers say climate change could reduce the yield of solar modules. Analysis based on the warming scenarios outlined by the IPCC predicts in some areas the annual energy output of PV systems may fall by up to 50 kWh per kilowatt installed.
Aug 17, 2019 // Technology, USA, solar modules, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, warming
Solar product can 'self-heal' imperfections, brand-new research study programs
A material that can be used in innovations such as solar energy has actually been discovered to self-heal, a new study programs.
Jan 27, 2021 // Technology, UK, Europe, University of York, Keith McKenna
Calcium batteries cool down with new electrolyte
Scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electrolytes they say could bring calcium batteries – currently only a lab technology – a step closer to being a practical reality for energy storage.
Oct 10, 2019 // Technology, Storage, storage, Germany, Europe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Zhenyou Li, Maximilian Fichtner, CELEST, Calcium batteries
New product, modeling techniques promise developments in power storage space
The surge of mobile digital devices, electric automobiles, drones and other modern technologies have driven need for new light-weight products that can give the power to operate them. Researchers from the College of Houston and Texas An as well as M College have actually reported an architectural supercapacitor electrode made from reduced graphene oxide as well as aramid nanofiber that is more powerful and also extra flexible than conventional carbon-based electrodes.
Jun 5, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Haleh Ardebili
Temperature level and also the situation for bifacial
U.S. scientists have developed a design to anticipate the performance of bifacial PV at project level. Their outcomes reveal that when improved temperature level sensitivity is properly taken into account, the advantage of bifacial modules could be even larger than formerly assumed. And also for upcoming module modern technologies like heterojunction particularly, it can imply bifacial is viable in a lot more parts of the world.
Jul 28, 2020 // Technology, USA, Bifacial PV, North America, Muhammad Ashraf Alam
Engaging Solar Cells: Colorful, Transparent, Efficient
Research team succeeds in creating world's first transparent thin-film solar cell on flexible substrate with reflective colors, maintaining cell efficiency. Multi-layer thin film reduces the reflection loss in visible light, making solar cells with varied colors & excellent efficiency at a reasonable cost. Can be used in image sensors, photolithography masks, and infrared shielding fields. Research team actively pursues solar modules with esthetic & functional BIPV elements.
Aug 29, 2023 // Technology, Asia, Korea, thin-film solar cell, Jung-dae Kwon
Orderly disorder: Cambridge scientists make surprising perovskite discovery
Researchers have made a finding they say could vastly simplify and reduce the production cost of perovskite solar cells. Working with mixed halide perovskites, the group found a disordered chemical composition can improve device efficiency.
Nov 12, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, UK, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, Cambridge University, crystalline silicon PV, Sascha Feldmann, Stuart MacPherson, Sam Stranks
Energy Materials Corporation to help scale-up creation of perovskite solar PV panels
Energy Materials Corporation reports that the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office has chosen EMC to progress perovskite photovoltaic module development and research.
Dec 11, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, PV panels, perovskite, Energy Materials Corporation, Energy Solar Energy Technologies