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ARENA Unveils $39M Solar Innovation Funding Round
ARENA launches USD 39M solar R&D boost, targeting AUD 0.30/watt by 2030, empowering innovation in renewable energy and decarbonizing industry.
Jul 9, 2025 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Oceania, ARENA
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
Quantum advancement advancements low-priced different solar technology
A group of scientists from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has actually leveraged quantum technicians to enhance the active layer within a tool called an inverted perovskite solar cell-- a modern technology that can eventually cause mass-market solar cells that a portion of those currently on the market.
Apr 8, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Hao Chen, Sam Teale
Sponge-like solar cells could be basis for far better pacemakers
Openings aid make sponges and also English muffins useful (and, when it comes to the last, tasty). Without openings, they would not be flexible enough to flex into tiny gaps, or to absorb the ideal amount of jam as well as butter.
Jun 8, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, University of Chicago, Bozhi Tian, Jiuyun Shi, Aleksander Prominski
Optimizing reliable perovskite photovoltaics
Establishing low-cost and steady steel electrodes is vital for automation of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). As an earth-abundant component, Cu comes to be a different candidate to change rare-earth element electrodes such as Au and Ag, because of its comparable physiochemical residential or commercial properties with simultaneously great security and also affordable.
Oct 14, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, Huanping Zhou, Peking University, PKU
Facebook indications 100MW PPA with Singapore's Sunseap for rooftop solar project
Facebook has actually signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Singaporean power company Sunseap Group to build and make use of solar panels on the rooftops of 1,200 public housing blocks and 49 government buildings.
Oct 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, PPA, Facebook, Urvi Parekh, Sunseap
New configuration gives perovskite cells 18% efficiency
Cesium lead black perovskites could be interesting for solar cell development if their crystals are observed in their less efficient but more stable beta phase. The efficiency shortfall can be solved by healing emerging cracks in the surface of the cell using a choline iodide solution, according to an international team of scientists.
Oct 4, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Europe, Asia, Switzerland, Luis K Ono, Jiao Tong University
New antenna for a better photon harvest
An Italian research team has developed a device that it says can easily be integrated into a PV cell, and can boost its efficiency by converting more light particles into a high energy state before they are absorbed by the cell. The scientists claim that their innovation could offer a green‐to‐blue photon upconversion yield as high as 15%.
Oct 7, 2019 // Technology, Italy, Europe, PV cell, Angiolina Comotti
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
Principal director claims 1.2 GW Omani solar project continues to be on track
Strategies to provide an ask for propositions associated with the contracts to create twin 500-600 MW solar plants in the sultanate by the end of this month appear to have slid yet the head of awarding utility the Oman Power and also Water Procurement Company has actually apparently specified the process remains in train.
Jun 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, Asia, Oman
Algeria's very first mounting system supplier
SPS, an Algerian steel sandwich panel manufacturer, has actually authorized a partnership deal with Dubai-based installing system service provider Qi-energy to begin production of placing frameworks for PV systems in Algeria.
Jun 25, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Africa, Algeria, Qi-energy, SPS, Mehdi Bendimerad, Neil Doe
Canadian researchers have done the math on optimizing PV output
Mathematicians at Canada’s University of Waterloo who turned their attention to solar power have developed an algorithm they say offers better control over PV plant output. The researchers estimate the algorithm could improve the output of a 100 MW power plant by almost a million kilowatt-hours per year.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Canada, North America, University of Waterloo’s Department of Applied Mathematics, Milad Farsi
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
In search of the 'most rational design' for anti-reflective finish
Researchers in Spain have examined different buildings of anti-reflective and anti-soiling finishes for PV module glass, aiming to create a product that uses the most effective equilibrium of desired product homes at the lowest cost. Over a year of testing, the most effective finishes were revealed to increase module result by around 2%, and also the group likewise made a number of monitorings that can influence future developments of coverings for PV module front glass.
Aug 27, 2020 // Technology, Spain, Europe, soiling
A brand-new course available to perovskite growth
Researchers in the United States case to have actually shown the presence of an atomic-scale sensation in a perovskite product. Making use of effective, ultra-fast ruptureds of light, the team had the ability to catch photos of the 'Rashba impacts' within the product. The scientists claim the sensation could be used to produce brand-new chances for PV as well as various other perovskite-based tools.
Apr 21, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, perovskite, North America, efficiency, Iowa, Ames Laboratory