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BASF Secures Long-Term Renewable Energy Deal in China
BASF signs a decade-long deal for 100% renewable energy in China, powering its commitment to sustainability and net-zero emissions by 2050. Green transformation starts here!
Oct 11, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, BASF
A cell so thin, it can rest on a soap bubble
Scientists at Saudia Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology showed an organic PV cell that can simply be printed onto a piece of paper. The cell established a brand-new performance record for a fully inkjet-printed device, and its designers imagine applications in incorporated medical sensing units.
Sep 1, 2020 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, Asia, KAUST, organic PV cell, Eloïse Bihar, Daniel Corzo
In the direction of more effective, non-toxic, and flexible thin-film solar cells
Climate change, among the major global worries today, has actually made it clear that fossil fuels are harmful to our atmosphere and are not a sustainable source of power. It is important to adopt clean sources of power, and also solar cells are a prominent prospect on this front.
May 13, 2022 // Technology, Japan, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, Ritsumeikan University, flexible thin-film solar cells, Jakapan Chantana, Takashi Minemoto
Australian scientists boost tidy hydrogen electrolysis
Griffith University researchers have actually opened a catalytic procedure to boost the malfunction of water right into hydrogen and also oxygen and also bring Australia an action nearer tidy, reliable hydrogen gas.
Apr 9, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Solar to Fuel, Australia, hydrogen, Oceania, Yuhai Dou
Uniper Launches Pilot Green Hydrogen Storage in Germany
Uniper SE's Krummhörn project pioneers green hydrogen storage, aiming for 600 GWh capacity by 2030, revolutionizing sustainable energy solutions in Germany.
Aug 28, 2024 // Plants, Solar to Fuel, Germany, Europe, Uniper SE
Bristol-led study will certainly interrupt solar as well as quicken initiatives towards Net-Zero target
A team of scientists, led by chemists from the University of Bristol, has received substantial financing from the UKRI to revolutionise the construction as well as application of photovoltaic devices, made use of to create solar energy.
Feb 15, 2021 // Technology, Bristol, David Fermin, Jake Bowers, Northumbria University, Loughborough University, UKRI
Being available in 2023, Organic Solar Cells That Can Work Indoors Too
Organic solar cells, with their flexibility and enhanced conversion rates, have the potential to take solar to places it has actually not been seen in yet.
With the current cells promising the solar efficiency of silicon cells from a decade back, it is an excellent bet that we will certainly see some success stories soon.
Jun 14, 2022 // Technology, clean energy, Solar Panels, solar cells, thin film modules, Renewable Energy, International, HELIATEK, Ricoh, organic solar cells, epishine
Solar Hybrid Solutions Firm Zola Electric Increases $90 million
Earnings to be utilized to more create ZOLA Electric's technology, go into brand-new markets as well as drive distributed renewable resource
Lead investors consist of TotalEnergies Ventures, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners as well as Electron Capital Partners
Sep 24, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Distributed Energy, bill lenihan, edouard bulteau, fund raise, nancy pfund, total energies, ZOLA Electric, ZOLA flex
Building a successful renewables auction in Colombia
pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras spoke to Carolina Obando, regulatory coordinator at renewable energy association SER Colombia, to discuss the country’s first renewable energy auction. The delayed tender promises to boost a solar industry with a 4.3 GW pipeline.
Sep 3, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Opinions, Rooftop PV, rooftop PV, Eckhart Gouras, Carolina Obando, SER Colombia, Maria Fernanda Suárez
A stand-alone solar farm in Crete that incorporates graphene perovskite photovoltaic panels
Perovskites, mineral products made up of calcium titanate, have actually been found to be valuable for the manufacture of high-performance solar cells. While groups of researchers and designers worldwide have actually been establishing as well as checking perovskite solar cells in research laboratory setups, large-scale outside examinations of these cells are still lacking.
Jul 29, 2022 // Technology, Plants, Solar Panels, perovskite, Aldo di Carlo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Graphene, solar farm, Crete, Hellenic Mediterranean University, BeDimensional S.p.A., Great Cell, Italian Institute of Technology, University of Siena
The Biggest Batteries Coming Soon to a Grid Near You
The 100-megawatt club is about to get a lot busier. Here are the world’s eight largest battery storage projects.
Sep 3, 2019 // Storage, California, USA, storage, TESLA, South Australia, North America, lithium-ion battery, AES, NextEra, Vistra
Designers use physics-informed device finding out to solar cell manufacturing
Today, solar power gives 2% of UNITED STATE power. However, by 2050, renewables are anticipated to be one of the most previously owned energy source (surpassing petroleum and also other fluids, natural gas, and coal) as well as solar will certainly surpass wind as the leading source of sustainable power.
Jun 10, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, solar cell, North America, efficiency
Ultra-low solar bid of $0.01997/kWh in the US – not quite so sunny
PV technology has made significant progress in a short amount of time, leaving solar enthusiasts chuffed. Opponents, on the other hand, brand it as unworkable boondoggle, surviving on the crutches of subsidies and only salving the conscience of the green-minded companies cosseted by political forces. The naysayers do have partial truth in their argument - governments the world over have been supporting the growth of this child with the moniker “solar” with public finances. So, this is the partial truth and the enthusiasts have just enough firepower to say that all energy is, after all, subsidised one way or another – in terms of uncompensated costs of air pollution, congestion and global warming and the consequential irreversible damage these fossil fuels have done to the planet. Perhaps more important and statistically relevant is a report published by the IMF in 2015, which had pegged subsidies to fossil fuels at US$5.3 trillion.
Aug 5, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Solar, USA, bifacial, monocrystalline, ssfusa, North America
Research reveals factors limiting the voltage of polycrystalline CdSeTe solar cells
So far, solar cells based on polycrystalline cadmium selenide telluride (CdSeTe) have actually shown some crucial constraints, despite their low construction costs as well as useful qualities. Most notably, these solar cells display higher voltage losses than other mature photovoltaic or pv innovations (crystalline silicon, for example) as well as this considerably hinders their efficiency and also performance.
Mar 30, 2022 // Technology, NREL, Arizona State University, Colorado State University, CSU, CdSeTe solar cells, ASU, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Arthur Onno
Microscopic service provider loss mechanisms in kesterite-based solar cells with a 12% performance
Kesterite Cu2ZnSn( S, Se) 4 is an arising and assuring green photovoltaic or pv material, as it is abundant in the world, does not harm the environment, as well as has a steady structure, a fantastic tunability and also advantageous optoelectronic homes. Despite their qualities, solar cells based upon kesterite normally have poor power conversion efficiencies, which hinder their commercialization and also large-scale implementation.
Aug 25, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, Sydney, efficiency, University of New South Wales, TechXplore, Jianjun Li









