• 2020-06-12

Getting the most out of a bifacial module requires a rethink at almost every level of system design and the industry is hungry for field data generated by such systems to better inform energy yield mo...

• 2020-06-12

Last year, The Solar Energy Co.,Ltd claimed a world record for efficiency of a “transparent solar cell” with a “certified” 9.8% power conversion efficiency. According to the startup, the efficiency of...

• 2020-03-30

Perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology shares many similarities with other so-called third-generation solar cells. Particularly in terms of cell design and processes, it is very close to dye-sensitize...

• 2020-03-30

In 2019, the EU added 16.7GW of solar photovoltaic installations to its portfolio, a 104% increase since 2018. This sharp increase marks the largest increase in solar power generation since 2010. So f...

• 2020-03-31

We recently received a very peculiar request from Johann Nesgen, the owner of a sheep farming company in the German region of Brandenburg. “We are a large sheep farming company with more than 6,000 an...

• 2020-04-22

Covid-19 is testing energy infrastructures across Africa, and against this backdrop, off-grid solar is likely to play an increasingly vital role on the continent. “Without energy, we can’t fight this,...

• 2020-04-23

Northern Indiana Solar Company, the second-largest electrical utility in Indiana, serving roughly 400,000 people, now has its first solar installations. The three projects were developed in collaborat...

• 2020-06-12

Among states with established climate change mitigation and carbon reduction goals, one of the first issues addressed is peak energy demand, with New Jersey being no exception to this trend. In this p...

• 2020-06-12

Electriq Power, a residential energy storage startup, just closed $3 million more in an equity round from a number of unidentified angel investors. This follows a seed round in 2018, which raised $6 m...

• 2020-07-31

China-based developer Hangzhou Fengling Electricity Science Technology recently finished building a 120 MW solar plant on the surface of the Changhe and Zhouxiang reservoirs in Cixi, Zhejiang province...

• 2020-04-27

ClearVue is a small ASX-listed solar company looking to generate power from clear windows. It’s another attempt at building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV). However, this company's solar power generati...

• 2020-04-28

A special phase change material, CaCl2.6H2O–Fe3Cl2.6H2O eutectic, could be used for temperature regulation and the passive cooling of PV panels, according to a group of Indian researchers. Phase chang...