A “Solar Sponge” Community Battery Network
Australian electricity distributor CitiPower and the Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) hope to unlock the potential of community-scale battery storage in the Melbourne city [...]
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Graphene “Armor” Enhances Perovskite for Solar
A team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has come up with a novel electrode that could greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
High Efficiency Solar Cell Lands from Space
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 [...]
Carbon Nanotubes Channel Heat into Light for Solar
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 [...]
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 [...]
Compact Solar Unit Yields 250 Liters of Hydrogen per Day
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 [...]
“Solar Cell Flow Battery” Shows High Efficiency
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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