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Bboxx, Orange launch solar mini-grid project in the DRC under anchor business community model
Off-grid pay-as-you-go solar provider Bboxx has actually partnered with telecommunications business Orange to introduce a new solar mini-grid project to assist speed up clean energy gain access to for households across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Jul 4, 2022 // Plants, Grids, bboxx, Orange, mini-grid, sub saharan africa, anchor business community, telecoms
Vadodara Hospital Installs World's Largest Solar Concentrator
The Kailash Cancer Hospital and Research Centre positioned at Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj has actually mounted the solar concentrator called Bigdish. The solar concentrator is to create adequate heavy steam that will assist the hospital chef 2,000 meals daily besides, laundry and also sterilization services.
Apr 4, 2023 // Technology, Australia National University, Bigdish, Deepak Gadhia, Janak Palta McGilligan, Goraj, Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development, Kailash Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Muni Seva Ashram, solar steam, Sunrise CSP Australia, world’s largest solar concentrator
Swiss scientists reveal brand-new perovskite procedure
A team of researchers at Switzerland's Federal Laboratories for Materials Science as well as Technology (EMPA) has actually shown a brand-new production procedure, based upon port pass away finishing, for the manufacturing of perovskite thin-film solar cells. The research laboratory has actually produced tiny perovskite components utilizing this procedure as well as has strategies to relocate right into the field-testing stage later on this year.
Apr 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, perovskite, Switzerland, WORLD, EMPA
ENGIE EPS' Hydrogen Technology Records a New Achievement in Singapore
ENGIE EPS contributes to Southeast Asia's transition towards an environment-friendly economy with a hydrogen-based power storage space system on Semakau Island
Nov 5, 2020 // Storage, Asia, hydrogen, Carlalberto Guglielminotti, Engie EPS, Semakau Island
Gravitricity discovers Czech coal mine for MW-scale storage
Final site decision for the Staric site near boundary right into Poland is anticipated in 2022
Oct 26, 2021 // Storage, Europe, Czech Republic, SCOTLAND, GRAVITRICITY
LONGi calls for industry alignment on wafer size as Hi-MO4 sales top 2GW
The solar industry must work together to agree on standardised larger wafer sizes, according to monocrystalline solar manufacturer LONGi Group.
Aug 21, 2019 // Manufacturing News, monocrystalline, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, silicon, wafer, LONGi Group, hi-mo4
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
Low-temperature perovskite solar module with 19.1% efficiency
Researchers have actually developed a PV module with an efficiency of 20.72%, based upon tin oxide (SnO2) as an electron transport layer, an organometal halide perovskite layer, organic halide salt phenethylammonium iodide (PEAI) as a passivation representative, as well as Spiro-OMeTAD as the hole transportation layer (HTL).
Apr 11, 2022 // Technology, Italy, Europe, perovskite, solar module, efficiency
Researchers create a material for handling and also saving quantum computing details
Researchers from North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillside, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Duke University, Wayne State University and The Hong Kong University of Science as well as Technology have actually created a mixed magnon state in an organic hybrid perovskite product by making use of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-Interaction (DMI).
Apr 6, 2023 // Technology, Manufacturing News, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, perovskite, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, North Carolina State University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wayne State University and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dali Sun
A nanoparticle-sensitized solar cell with 8.5% effectiveness
The record feat compares to usual figures of 2-3% for such devices. The Taiwanese scientists who developed the cell said it was prepared with the Silar method and is based on a ternary metal sulfide-alloyed semiconductor. They claim performance could be further boosted.
Feb 18, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, Taiwan, efficiency
Danish researchers bring some color to rooftop PV
Scientists led by the Technical University of Denmark have begun a project to design solar cells that can be produced in different colors with minimal effect on performance, making them suitable for building-integrated and other applications with aesthetic considerations.
Oct 1, 2019 // Technology, Rooftop PV, bipv, Germany, Europe, Fraunhofer ISE, rooftop PV, Denmark, Building-integrated photovoltaics, DTU, colored PV modules, Peter Poulsen, Danish Solar Energy Ltd
European consortium bid to bring 25.4%- effective heterojunction-IBC solar cell into automation
The EU-funded Nextbase project intends to produce heterojunction, interdigitated back-contact solar components for less than EUR0.275/ W. Solar panels including the Nextbase cell tech are anticipated to have a conversion effectiveness of 23.2%, according to the European Commission.
Jun 22, 2020 // Manufacturing News, France, Germany, Italy, Europe, heterojunction, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Czechia
Progress toward greener redox-organic electrode batteries
Our modern-day rechargeable batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries, are anything however sustainable. One alternative is organic batteries with redox-organic electrode materials (OEMs), which can be synthesized from natural "green" materials. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Chinese team has actually currently presented a new OEM for aqueous organic high-capacity batteries that can be quickly and cheaply recycled.
Apr 24, 2023 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, China, Asia
German scientists team up for perovskite tandem cells
Two of Germany’s leading research institutes and a CIGS module maker have announced plans to work on the development of perovskite-CIGS tandem cells with a target of producing thin film modules with better than 30% efficiency.
Sep 4, 2019 // BIPV, Manufacturing News, Solar to Fuel, Germany, pv modules, Europe, hydrogen, perovskite, CIGS module, thin film modules, KIT, ZSW, Nice Solar Energy, Ulrich W Paetzold, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
World's very first solar & hydrogen powered cabins reduced carbon at HS2 building websites.
AJC Trailers, a British company, has actually made, made, and supplied the world's first solar & hydrogen-powered cabins that have actually been presented across the HS2 building site in the United Kingdom in an initiative to make the sites greener.
Sep 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, UK, Europe, hydrogen, AJC Trailers, HS2 construction