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Altus Power America building Hawaii's biggest community solar project
Altus Power America will certainly construct a 4.5-MW ground-mounted solar energy project in Kapolei, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. Once created the project will certainly be the largest Community-Based Renewable Energy (CBRE) project in Hawaii.
Feb 26, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, USA, Hawaii, North America, Altus Power, Solar Project, Lars Norell, Ryan McCauley
Trina Solar's N-Type Modules BIS Certified
Trina Solar has just announced BIS-certified high-performance N-type solar modules with i-TOPCon technology, MBB, and more. Enjoy greater light absorption, customer value, reliability, and energy yield at low cost, perfect for India's extreme weather and terrain.
Oct 5, 2023 // Manufacturing News, PV module, Trina Solar
Green Genius Scores EUR 9.5m for Romanian Solar
Green Genius set to receive USD10m to develop solar power projects in Romania. INVL's Renewable Energy Fund to contribute EUR52.9m to the effort of 500MW solar farms in 2025. Get the full story on Green Genius' ambitious energy project.
Oct 27, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Green Genius, Romania
Trina Solar Vertex N 700W+: Mass Production Begins
Trina Solar has started mass production of the Vertex N 700W+ series modules, equipped with 22.5% module efficiency and n-type i-TOPCon Advanced tech. Tests by RETC show 3.96% increased annual power generation, with successful projects installed in Saudi Arabia and China.
Aug 31, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Trina Solar, Vertex Module
NEW DESIGNS COULD BOOST SOLAR CELLS BEYOND THEIR LIMITS
THE SUN BLANKETS the Earth with enough photons every hour to meet the entire world’s energy needs for a year. The question is how to efficiently convert them into electricity.
Jul 11, 2019 // BIPV, Marc Baldo, Shockley-Queisser, NREL
A common language for bifacial PV
This week pv magazine was in Amsterdam for the sixth edition of the BifiPV workshop, where the discussion focused on the impressive achievements made by bifacial solar modules and the challenges the technology faces as it moves toward mainstream adoption.
Sep 19, 2019 // Technology, USA, Canadian Solar, Europe, Netherlands, Amsterdam, LONGi, PERC, North America, BifiPV, Jolywood, Jenya Meydbray, Joshua Stein, Netherlands Energy Center, U.K. National Physics Laboratory
How to Calculate the Benefit of a Solar PV System
We hear a lot about solar power these days. Government institutions and other energy companies promote solar power in every country in the world. There are
Jan 19, 2022 // Solar
Ordered chaos: The key to next-generation solar technology
Scientists in Australia have actually dealt with a basic design difficulty in next-generation perovskite solar cells, bringing their widespread usage a step better
Oct 29, 2020 // Technology, Australia, solar cells, perovskite, Oceania, efficiency
Agrivoltaics Guarantee Conjunction With Agriculture For Solar
Solar, despite excellent development for in the direction of coming to be the cheapest, greenest and also cleanest source of power, still has one weak spot. The large systems of land that are needed for each MW of solar created on the ground.
Apr 9, 2021 // Plants, Japan, Solar Panels, Solar Energy, Asia, agrivoltaics, Delhi, Farmdo Group
Solar-powered trees for awesome areas in metropolitan locations
A Japanese consortium has actually begun generating solar-powered 'city furnishings'. The outcome is a solar-plus-battery bench with cooling components and also vaporizers.
Mar 10, 2020 // Technology, Japan, Asia
Solar energy in the Antarctic
Dominic Buergi discusses exactly how, versus all probabilities, a fully working solar system has been set up in the Antarctic
Dec 7, 2020 // Plants, Antarctic, Dominic Buergi, Technova Renovables
Next-generation solar cells get to 24% efficiency
A German research study team has developed a tandem solar cell that gets to 24 percent efficiency-- measured according to the fraction of photons exchanged electricity (i.e., electrons).
Apr 14, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cells, perovskite, efficiency, University of Cologne
Food crops do better in the shade of solar panels
Another study has highlighted the advantages of combining solar with agriculture. According to the paper, growing chiltepin pepper, jalapeno and cherry tomato in dryland areas of the U.S. under the shade of PV modules is not only possible, but can lead to a better harvest.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, PV panels, Europe, University of Arizona, Greg Barron-Gafford, Margit Deimel
Protecting against dye aggregation with molten salts to improve solar cell performance
Solar cells are swiftly turning into one of the major ways to create clean electrical energy in lots of nations in the world. Over the past few years, a tremendous amount of initiative has been committed to making solar energy extra prominent. However, the technology currently faces several difficulties that limit widespread application.
Aug 30, 2022 // Technology, Japan, Asia, solar cell, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Tomohiko Inomata
A novel concept for photovoltaics that exploits the ability of products to exist in various crystalline phases
The group of Prof. Yana Vaynzof at the Integrated Center for Physics as well as Photonic Materials (IAPP) and also the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at Technische Universität Dresden has demonstrated a novel concept for solar cells that exploits the ability of materials to exist in various crystalline phases. The relevant study has actually now been released in the journal Nature Energy.
Nov 16, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, Yana Vaynzof, Technische Universität Dresden, Integrated Center for Physics and Photonic Materials, IAPP










