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Perovskite solar cells: Perfection not required
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
The reason that these holes do not lead to significant short circuits between the front and back contact has now been discovered by a HZB team headed by Dr.-Ing...
NEXTracker to supply smart trackers to massive North Africa solar farm
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Egypt is increasingly turning to the sun for power as solar has become competitive with traditional generation. The World Bank reports that Egypt relied on foss...
Slow 'hot electrons' could improve solar cell efficiency
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
University of Groningen Professor of Photophysics and Optoelectronics Maria Antonietta Loi has now found a material in which these hot electrons retain their hi...
Chinese solar boom sparks global renewables boon: study
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
After a dip in 2016, overall global investment in the sector rose 3.0 percent to a total $333.5 billion, offsetting falls in Japan, Germany and Britain, accordi...
Building a new generation of self-healing solar cells
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
In this work the sample is illuminated from the back of the cell, with the help of a commercially available RGB LED light. While illuminating, a tiny metallic n...
Urban Solar installs solar LED lighting along Vancouver Island pathways
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
Urban Solar is an industry leader for installing lighting systems that perform well in challenging environments for solar energy, notably the Pacific Northwest....
Multi-model effort highlights progress, future needs in renewable energy modeling
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
Four agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), hosted two workshops that led to a new report where the te...
Ukraine to launch its first solar plant at Chernobyl
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
The new one-megawatt power plant is located just a hundred metres from the new "sarcophagus", a giant metal dome sealing the remains of the 1986 Chernobyl accid...
Sun, wind, and power trading
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
"When a consumer uses more electrical energy from the power grid, the grid frequency drops slightly before an increased energy feed-in re-establishes the origin...
About half of new U.S. power came from renewables last year
Jan 10, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said its data combing so far shows 25 gigawatts of new electricity was added to the grid last year, with about half o...
New Mexico coop signs record-low contract for distributed solar energy
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc. (OCEC) will receive output from the Carrizozo project, which will be developed and owned by Chicago-based SoCore Energy,...
Baron Announces Iowa State University Solar Car Team Successfully Completed 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Baron donated a custom-built Baron Threat Net package, a real-time weather intelligence software package designed to provide global forecasts with a focus on su...
Scientists discover material ideal for smart photovoltaic windows
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at Berkeley Lab, a Department of Energy (DOE) national lab, discovered that a form of perovskite, one of the hottest materials in solar research cur...
Laser Evaporation Technology to Create New Solar Materials
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
Perovskites are a class of materials that - with the right combination of elements - have a crystalline structure that makes them particularly well-suited for l...
Standardizing perovskite aging measurements
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
But one of the greatest obstacles on this road is stability: to be commercially viable, perovskite solar cells must also be able to maintain their efficiency ov...
Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
"Because of the the strong performance we can achieve with low-cost, solution-processable materials, these quantum-dot-based double-pane windows and even more c...
Siting solar, sparing prime agricultural lands
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
These land-sparing spaces include: 1) built environments, such as rooftops 2) salt-affected land 3) contaminated land, and 4) water reservoirs with floating sol...
New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a team at MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming fabrication and testing, allowing for a rapid scree...
Researcher pioneers solar sintering for crucial steel component
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Manganese is the fourth-most used metal in the world, at 6 million tons a year, needed for everything from cars to skyscrapers, used in iron to make steel stron...
Climate conditions affect solar cell performance more than expected
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
This gap occurs because solar energy can shift depending on local temperature and water in the atmosphere. Their work, appearing December 13 in the journal Joul...
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