星期一, 25 11 月, 2024
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Tag: TECHNOLOGY AND R&D

Borehole thermal energy storage for solar

Drammen Eiendom KF – a company owned by the municipality of Drammen, Norway – has developed a project to store solar energy as heat....

Lead-free quantum dot solar cells with 10% efficiency

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. claims to have developed a quantum dot solar cell without lead or other toxic elements that achieves...

A pressure-assisted technique to increase perovskite solar cell efficiency

A group of scientists at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute claims to have significantly improved the efficiency of a layered mixed halide perovskite solar cell...

New method for life cycle assessment of PV technologies

Scientists at Australia’s Charles Darwin University have conducted a cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) of the four most widely used PV technologies; monocrystalline silicon...

A PV antenna for solar power beaming from space to Earth

The idea of harvesting solar energy in outer space through special antennas and transferring it directly to Earth via microwave beams is not new,...

BIPV solar modules with varying transparency

German solar module manufacturer Sonnenstromfabrik has developed a building-integrated PV module that can be optimized for high transparency. The glass-glass monocrystalline modules, which Sonnenstromfabrik is...

A new device to detect PV panel failure

A new, real-time solar panel fault detection system has been touted by Spanish start-up Clever Solar Devices. The company was established this year and focuses on the optimization of...

Colored PV module performance is underestimated

Since 2014, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has been testing different kinds of innovative solar panels, including BIPV modules with different colors, at...

Fine-tuning plasmonic solar cells

In recent years, plasmonic enhancement has been used in a wide variety of research aimed at improving the efficiency and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells....

Assessing impact of residual stress in solar cells

Residual stresses are those that remain in a solid material even after external loading or thermal gradients that cause them are removed. In some...

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China CORNEX signed cooperation agreement with the Italian Cestari Group

On November 13, CORNEX signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Italian company Cestari Group in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. According to the agreement,...

Solar Leader Enphase Energy Cutting 500 Jobs

California-based Enphase Energy, a company known for its solar power and electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, announced it is laying off about 500 workers....

Cincinnati’s solar array powers city operations, tens of thousands of homes

A sprawling solar array in Highland County now powers 20% of Cincinnati's operations and tens of thousands of homes. Cincinnati’s 900-acre solar farm was completed...

1.2-GW solar panel assembly facility to open in Puerto Rico

A contract solar panel assembly facility will soon open in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, that will supply the utility-scale market on the island and hopefully...