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Tata Power's $8.5B Clean Energy Push in India's South
Tata Power partners with Tamil Nadu government to invest $8.5 billion in clean energy projects, aiming to build 10GW of renewable energy and phase out fossil fuel capacity by 2045.
Jan 10, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, tata power
Colbun Pioneers Green Hydrogen Production at Peru Power Plant
Colbun pioneers Peru's first green hydrogen plant, reducing carbon emissions and saving costs while promoting renewable energy use in customer processes.
Jan 29, 2024 // Plants, Solar to Fuel, South america, Peru, green hydrogen plant, Colbun
Roof solar cells can be a boon for water conservation too
Electricity-generating roof solar cells not just minimize planet-warming carbon emissions, they likewise save a substantial amount of water, say a pair of Duke University researchers that have done the math.
Sep 22, 2022 // Technology, USA, North America, Duke University, Roof solar cells, Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal
Machine learning determines surprise factors that influence solar farms throughout severe climate
Sandia National Laboratories researchers integrated huge collections of real-world solar information and advanced equipment discovering to research the impacts of severe weather condition on U.S. solar farms, and also figure out what factors impact energy generation. Their outcomes were released earlier this month in the clinical journal Applied Energy.
Aug 31, 2021 // Technology, USA, North America, Solar Farms, Sandia National Laboratory, Thushara Gunda, Nicole Jackson
International research collaboration generates all-perovskite tandem solar cell with high efficiency, record voltage
A collaboration between University of Toronto Engineering, Northwestern University and also the University of Toledo has led to an all-perovskite tandem solar cell with exceptionally high effectiveness as well as record-setting voltage.
Nov 16, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, Ted Sargent, University of Toronto
An alumina lining for silicon in storage
Researchers at Rice University in the U.S. have actually carried out explores lithium-ion batteries utilizing silicon as an anode product and made an unexpected discovery relating to an aluminum oxide passivation layer at the cathode. The finding might open up a new path toward much better performing lithium-ion batteries.
Feb 3, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, silicon, North America, Rice University, Sibani Lisa Biswal, alumina
Exactly how do solar cells function undersea?
Although cells shed a lot of their power return when immersed, they might not be ineffective. Scientists in India claim immersed cells could be utilized in checking sensing units as well as for various other business as well as protection applications. An amorphous silicon cell from Panasonic was checked in their research.
Feb 25, 2020 // Technology, India, solar cells, Asia
Scientist Develop New Graphene Solar Thermal Film to Absorb Sunlight with Over 90% Efficiency
The scientists have actually established a brand-new graphene-based solar thermal movie that can soak up sunshine with an effectiveness of greater than 90 percent, while at the same time gets rid of most IR thermal discharge loss-- the very first time such an accomplishment has actually been reported.
Mar 26, 2020 // Technology, Australia, Oceania, Graphene, Baohua Jia, Keng-Te Lin
Environment-friendly solvent for a 16.7% perovskite solar cell
Researchers in Germany aimed to get rid of making use of harmful solvents in the manufacturing of perovskite solar cells, changing them with a much more environmentally worldly called dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) which has so far shown difficult to integrate right into processes appropriate for large-scale production.
Jul 14, 2022 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, Jan-Philipp Becker
Scientists realize large-area organic solar cells that are low-cost, flexible, and also reliable
Organic solar cells (OSCs), that make use of organic materials to transform sunlight into electrical power, are an attractive candidate for future photovoltaics. This is because of numerous of their preferable features, such as their light weight, flexibility, pliability, and, most significantly, high power conversion efficiency (PCE). Such top qualities make them optimal for a vast array of applications.
Aug 17, 2022 // Technology, Kwanghee Lee, GIST, organic solar cells, Hongkyu Kang
New efficiency record for flexible CZTS
Scientists at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology have set a new efficiency record of 11.4% for a cell based on a copper zinc tin sulfide thin film applied to a flexible substrate.
Sep 24, 2019 // Technology, South Korea, Asia, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, flexible CZTS, Kee-Jeong Yang, thin-film solar cell, Jin-Kyu Kang
Australia’s AEMC calls for energy pricing and transmission overhaul
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has released a new paper outlining a blueprint to coordinate generation and transmission investments. The draft proposal seeks to overhaul wholesale pricing and transmission access to lower electricity costs and the ever-increasing risks inherent in getting new renewable energy generation capacity into the network.
Oct 16, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, aemc, Chairman John Pierce
The ‘butterfly effect’ of Chinese PV listings
A recent study shows that PV costs have declined faster than any other energy technology over the past two decades. The researcher behind the study said this would not have been possible without the “butterfly effect,” which is based on the idea that a small change in one part of a complex system can have a large impact elsewhere. The researcher also attributed the the rapidly declining cost of PV to Chinese manufacturing and strong US investor support.
Nov 29, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Canadian Solar, China, JA Solar, JinkoSolar, Asia, Trina Solar, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, Martin Andrew Green
Tungsten disulfide helps organic solar cell reach 17% efficiency
Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology claim to have developed a highly performant organic PV cell using tungsten disulfide flakes a few atoms thick. The stability of the device, however, is still to be evaluated.
Dec 19, 2019 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, Asia, solar cell, KAUST, WS2
Gauging non-fulleren acceptors for organic PV
U.S. scientists are trying to understand how non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NAFs) increase the efficiency of organic PV devices. They claim that methoxy groups embedded in the acceptors could facilitate an efficiency increase of approximately 6%.
Dec 20, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, organic PV, North America, Georgia Institute of Technology, UNIST, organic PV cells, organic PV devices, Jean-Luc Brédas











