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Solaria brings its license claims against Canadian Solar to ITC, adding a 3rd license
Californian solar module supplier Solaria Corporation has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to release an exemption order to prevent the sale in the United States of Canadian Solar shingled solar modules it declares infringe its patents.
Sep 18, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, California, USA, Canada, Canadian Solar, China, Asia, solaria, North America, United States
Straining to fix perovskite cells
A technique based on optical imaging has been used by an international research team to illuminate strains in lead halide perovskite solar cells without harming them. The scientists claim the approach helped them discover misorientation between microscopic perovskite crystals was the main cause of the strains.
Nov 2, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Washington, Europe, Netherlands, North America, perovskite cells, University of Washington, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, David Ginger
Discovery challenges accepted wisdom on organic PV
Researchers at the University of Warwick in the U.K. have made a discovery that could lead to new designs for organic PV devices. Their findings could open up a new range of materials for the electrode layer and bring low cost, flexible organic PV devices a step closer commercial reality, say the academics.
Sep 12, 2019 // Technology, UK, Europe, University of Warwick, flexible organic PV, Dinesha Dabera, Ross Hatton
Chint and Voltis launch 5-GW UK renewables and storage venture
Chint Solar and London-based Voltis formed a joint venture to develop roughly 5 GW of UK solar and battery storage, targeting bankable, grid-friendly projects.
Oct 3, 2025 // Plants, UK, Europe, Chint Solar, Voltis
Mini perovskite solar module with 40 sq cm aperture area, 17% efficiency
The 19.2%- efficient perovskite cells made use of in the module depend on an electron layer based on tin oxide that was transferred through chemical bath deposition. This technique, according to the gadget's creators, has made it possible to have a reasonably small decrease in efficiency from small cells to the 40cm2 module.
Feb 28, 2022 // Technology, France, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, solar module, efficiency, Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France, IPVF
Major advancement in producing new family members of semiconductor materials
MIT engineers report producing the very first high-grade thin films of a new household of semiconductor materials. The task, which lead scientist Rafael Jaramillo describes as his "white whale" because of his fixation in pursuing it over the years, has the potential to effect several areas of technology if background repeats itself. The capability to develop top notch films of other families of semiconductors brought about computers, solar cells, night-vision video cameras, and extra.
Oct 4, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, perovskite, MIT, North America, Thomas Lord
A brand-new solid-state battery shocks the researchers who developed it
Engineers created a brand-new kind of battery that weaves 2 promising battery sub-fields right into a solitary battery. The battery utilizes both a solid state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode, making it a silicon all-solid-state battery.
Sep 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, University of California San Diego, Shirley Meng, LG Energy Solution, Darren H. S. Tan, Myung-hwan Kim
A brand-new PV emulator to examine the I-V account of photovoltaic panels
The tool is based upon a state-feedback flexible control system in a real-time controller. According to its designers, it can attain great vibrant reaction and also flaunts far better transmission capacity than present business options.
Mar 2, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Africa, Morocco, PV panel, PV emulator
Open PV Project goes offline
The US Department of Energy has shut down the site for its Open PV Project, which supplied cost and installation data. Is this the winding down of a project whose time had come, or is the administration of President Donald Trump closing off another data source on renewable energy?
Sep 20, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, SEIA, Donald Trump, North America, Open PV Project, Dr. Christopher Clack, Vibrant Clean Energy
Polysilicon price leaps 9% in a week as energy crisis hits China
Polysilicon costs have actually risen by 8.6% to RMB230/kg (US$ 35.3/ kg) today following a power dilemma in China that has seen the government order silicon steel manufacturers to curb their procedures.
Oct 1, 2021 // Manufacturing News, China, polysilicon, Asia
RPC and Greenfield win permits for 82-MW UK batteries projects
Renewable Power Capital and partner Greenfield secured planning permission for 82 MW of battery storage in Britain, bolstering flexibility for solar-heavy grids.
Sep 18, 2025 // Storage, United Kingdom, Battery Storage, Europe, Flexibility, Renewable Power Capital, planning
Potassium steel battery becomes a competing to lithium-ion modern technology
From mobile phone, to solar energy, to electrical autos, humankind is progressively depending on batteries. As need for risk-free, effective, as well as effective power storage space remains to climb, so also does the call for appealing options to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which have actually been the leading modern technology in this room.
Mar 4, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, lithium-ion battery, Potassium metal battery, Nikhil Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Recalling over lithium
Currently in charge of altering the means we interact and also power mobile tools, lithium-ion innovation is currently driving transformations in both transportation and also power supply all over the world. A brand-new paper released by Arumugam Manthiram of the University of Texas at Austin checks out the innovation's growth, from first explorations made in the 1970s to the factors to consider these days's scientists dealing with the 'batteries of the future'.
Apr 6, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, lithium, North America, Arumugam Manthiram, John Goodenough
Globe's Largest Environment-friendly Hydrogen Project to Introduce in California
International power firm SGH2 has actually revealed that it is bringing the globe's greatest eco-friendly hydrogen manufacturing center to the City of Lancaster in California
May 22, 2020 // Plants, Solar to Fuel, California, USA, hydrogen, North America, SGH2, Salvador Camacho, Robert T. Do
Polish company opens up cutting-edge solar energy plant
A Polish business on Friday introduced the world's initial commercial assembly line of photovoltaic panels based on groundbreaking perovskite technology, which might change accessibility to solar energy.
May 24, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Poland, Solar Panels, Europe, perovskite, Olga Malinkiewicz