After developing a way to produce solar cells using materials previously considered too expensive for use on Earth, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [...]
The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels far more efficient – and anything else that loses energy through heat. Rice University [...]
Solar desalination methods have been around for awhile, both for powering the process, and to help with evaporation. Rice University’s solar-powered approach for [...]
A broad class of materials called perovskites is considered one of the most promising avenues for developing new, more efficient solar cells. But the virtually limitless [...]
The following is an excerpt of an interview with Vladimir Bulovic, published in the Spring 2019 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative. For the [...]
The amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen, as well as the required materials has long been a challenge for renewable power researchers in order to make it scalable for [...]
The huge growth of the EV market has spurred significant development of the EV charging industry and a host of fast-charging station competitors. However, public EV charging [...]
Thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells have been a target of some skepticism due to cost and scale-up issues for high-performance microcells. However, with new advances, [...]
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial [...]
While many utilities and solar farm developers are rushing to connect solar capacity to large batteries, a research team is taking a different approach by making the solar [...]