Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Efficient as well as environmentally friendly solar cells are required for a transition to a fossil-free energy supply. Researchers at Linköping University have mapped exactly how energy flows in organic solar cells, something that formerly had been unknown. The outcomes, which can contribute to a lot more efficient solar cells, are published in Nature Communications.

Switzerland-based Novartis has actually deployed a 36 kW building-integrated PV facade on its new exhibition center in Basel. The system features 10,680 organic PV modules from France's Asca.

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.

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, as well as Wuhan University have actually offered a completely rare-earth element-- free alkaline fuel cell with improved efficiency utilizing a carbon-coated nickel anode. At the same time, the Port of Rotterdam has actually supplied to provide northwestern Europe with 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen by 2030. According to RMI, Europe will import green hydrogen in between 2024 and 2030. RenewableUK sees area for hydrogen exports from the UK to the EU.

Solar's initiative to be visually pleasing has been a tough journey thus far, with costs a crucial concern. Costs are one reason solar tiles for instance stay an industrialized country advantage even now.

Perovskite products may hold the potential to play an important duty in a procedure to create hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Singaporean scientists have created a semitransparent perovskite solar panels for applications such as building-integrated PV, vehicle-integrated solar, as well as clever glasses.

Study led by the University of Strathclyde suggests that solar power can be accessed and also exchanged hydrogen-- a clean and also sustainable fuel.

It has polysulfide-air redox flow battery (PSA RFB) with two membranes to store excess renewable resource.

This new method for screening perovskite solar cells leads the way for their usage in powering objects that require the cells' radiation firmness and durability.

A brand-new perovskite PV cell based on titanium dioxide nanoparticles exhibits low effectiveness losses when scaled up from cell to module.

UK researchers have actually developed a stable alkaline-based hybrid polysulfide-air redox flow battery that reduces "crossover" issues via a brand-new dual-membrane-structured flow cell.

Researchers in Switzerland made substantial progress with a method to perovskite-silicon tandem cell layout that they state might become integrated right into existing silicon PV production. They have announced the success of a 29.2% cell efficiency-- not far from the total record for tandem cells, and confirmed by Germany's Fraunhofer ISE.

Oxford PV layers perovskite over silicon to capture a wider wavelength range

Perovskites are a team of layered crystalline compounds defined by the configuration of the atoms in their crystal lattice. There are hundreds of such possible compounds as well as various methods of making them.