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Flisom launches next-gen flexible solar panels
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
Flisom's solar modules are extremely light (as light as 200g/m2), and highly efficient (up to 50x power-to-weight ratio compared to silicon PV panels) and ultra...
Solar Power Lights Up Amazon Communities Fighting Dirty Energy
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
While Trump administration denies the impacts of climate change on the disastrous weather events in recent weeks, indigenous communities in the Amazon are leadi...
International Trade Commission finds injury in solar industry dispute
Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)
ITC judges voted four to zero to advance the suit into the remedy phase. While it's not yet clear what the commission will recommend, the two companies have req...
NREL investigates coatings needed for concentrating solar power
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
"We are very excited about the potential implications of this research to provide corrosion-resistant coatings for CSP applications that could improve the econo...
Scientists make atoms-thick Post-It notes for solar cells and circuits
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
A study led by UChicago researchers, published Sept. 20 in Nature, describes an innovative method to make stacks of semiconductors just a few atoms thick. The t...
Chinese solar panel manufacturer claims a quarter of India's market
Sep 19, 2017 (UPI)
Since its first shipment in 2010, the company said Tuesday it's now shipped a total of 3 gigawatts worth of solar power modules to India, claiming about 25 perc...
Dubai awards contract for final phase of solar park
Sep 16, 2017 (AFP)
The local government said the contract for the fourth and final phase went to Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Electric and ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia. The solar p...
8 GW of solar now managed by GreenPowerMonitor
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
According to DNV GL's Energy Transition Outlook 2017, Solar PV is expected to become a major contributor to the energy supply of the future and play a significa...
Obama-era solar power program reaches goal early
Sep 13, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory said in a report that the cost to install solar power during the first quarter of the year rea...
Engineers develop tools to share power from renewable energy sources during outages
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego wants to change this. They have developed algorithms that would allow homes to use and share power...
Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Now, an expanded team, from Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, Bath and Delft, have shown that these defects can be permanently healed, which could further accelerate the ...
Insect eyes inspire new solar cell design from Stanford
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
In a new study, the Stanford team used the insect-inspired design to protect a fragile photovoltaic material called perovskite from deteriorating when exposed t...
Air pollution throws shade on India's solar success
Sep 03, 2017 (AFP)
New research has found the smog and dust that sickens millions across India every year is also sapping solar power generation by more than 25 percent, far beyon...
NREL, Swiss scientists power past solar efficiency records
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
The research groups created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1-sun illumination. The resulting paper, "...
Photosynthesis discovery could help design more efficient artificial solar cells
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
During photosynthesis, plants and other organisms, such as algae and cyanobacteria, convert solar energy into chemical energy that can later be used as fuel for...
A low-cost method for solar-thermal conversion that's simpler and greener
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
The team's method is outlined in a new paper, "Scalable, 'Dip-and-dry' Fabrication of a Wide-Angle Plasmonic Selective Absorber for High-efficiency Solar-therma...
Perovskite solar cells go single crystal
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
Since its first report in 2009, the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has increased spectacularly from 3.81% to 22.1% in just 7 years...
Shape-shifters soak up sunshine
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
Photostriction is the property of certain materials to undergo a change in internal strain, and therefore shape, with exposure to light. Organic photostrictive ...
Solar hydrogen production by artificial leafs
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
Similar to a process in natural photosynthesis, sunlight can also be used in "artificial leafs" to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Artificial leafs combin...
More solar power thanks to titanium
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
With the help of a catalyst, sunlight can drive the oxidation of water to oxygen and the release of electrons for current generation, a process also called arti...
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