The search for more powerful solar cells and miniaturized electronics is the subject of much research around the world. Scientists at the University of Ottawa have come up with new technology they think is pretty exciting. Mathieu de Lafontaine, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa and a part-time physics … [continued]
The leading Chinese solar firm LONGi breaks another conversion record with its new silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell.
The most-visited page on NREL’s website has a big new upgrade.
In the race to the stars, NASA picks star power — aka solar power — for the Gateway project which is aimed at setting up a permanent human camp on the Moon.
A novel combination of high-grade spacecraft solar cell material and advanced light-concentrating lenses has yielded solar panels with a record 29% efficiency that may become available for general rooftop use by 2022. The crux in the commercialization of the planar optical micro-tracking technology will be cost-controlling manufacturing process, which is the current stage of study for Insolight, the cell developer.
Researchers in Europe have set a new record for solar conversion efficiency — 41.4% — using new concentrated photovoltaics technology. The research project focused on making the technology production ready.
President Trump’s solar tariff threw a monkey wrench into the US solar industry, but Elon Musk of Tesla has engineered a shield — or two, or three — against any permanent damage to the company’s Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo.
Transparent windows that generate electricity from solar energy have caught the eye of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
When two “wonder materials” of the solar energy age combine, good things happen. That’s the takeaway from new research that leverages graphene to create a more durable, efficient — and super cheap — perovskite solar cell.
Solar energy could face the axe under the Trump Administration, but bank on the US military to fight for its renewable energy programs.
