Transparent Solar Panels May Change PV Integration
Transparent solar panels developed by Australian researchers are on track to revolutionize the way photovoltaics are integrated into buildings. Recent efficiency improvements [...]
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Solar Cells to Generate Energy at Night
What if solar cells worked at night? That’s no joke, according to Jeremy Munday, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. In fact, a [...]
Speeding Discovery of New Solar Cell Materials
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 [...]
“Funnel Vision” May Triple Solar Efficiency
A team of researchers from the University of Exeter has discovered an innovative way for generating photovoltaic energy. The new technique relies on ‘funnelling’ the [...]
Squeezing Solar Cells for More Power
Sometimes it takes some out-of-the-box thinking to come up with a what seems like a simpler solution to a problem. Physicists at the University of Warwick have published new [...]
Squeezing Solar: Tracker Innovation Boosts Market
The per watt decline in cost of solar cells has led to unprecedented growth in solar energy generation. While the industry is nowhere near to overtaking fossil fuel energy, [...]
Beam It Up, Scottie: A/C Using No Electricity
The concept: Air conditioning and cooling are a major requirement for industry and residential areas, but use significant amounts of energy that tax the grid at peak hours. [...]
Cleantech Forum Diary Day One: A Fighting Stance
Enthusiastic Business Community Focuses on Economic Opportunity SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2017 — It’s not often that you walk into a business conference where [...]
SIPS Awards Shine Light on Solar Power R&D
For a perspective on where photovoltaic (PV) R&D is headed, check out the Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS), part of the U.S. Energy Department’s [...]
Solar Cell Efficiency Leaps 44%
While we are used to seeing incremental advances in solar cell efficiency almost every week, these smaller advances of one or two percentage points have not captured major [...]
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