CleanTechnica » soitec http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels… Again (+ Other Solar News) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:33:37 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76869 Here’s more solar fun for some lazy Sunday (or Monday after Christmas) reading. Enjoy! Solar $$ Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels For New Chilean Projects? UK Solar Installations Still Offer Excellent ROI Peer-to-Peer Financing For Residential Solar Rolled Out In Arizona Living the EV/PV Dream: How I Chose to Pair My Solar System With an Electric

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/feed/ 0 New Solar CPV Module Efficiency World Record Set — 36.7% Efficiency Achieved Thanks To Fraunhofer ISE And Soitec Collaboration http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/17/new-solar-cpv-module-efficiency-world-record-set-36-7-efficiency-achieved-thanks-fraunhofer-ise-soitec-collaboration/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/17/new-solar-cpv-module-efficiency-world-record-set-36-7-efficiency-achieved-thanks-fraunhofer-ise-soitec-collaboration/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:44:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=69579 A new conversion efficiency world record for concentrator photovoltaic modules (CPV), of 36.7%, was recently set thanks to a research collaboration between the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and the French CPV developer Soitec (along with the French research center CEA-Leti, and the Helmholtz Center in Berlin). The researchers from Fraunhofer ISE —

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/17/new-solar-cpv-module-efficiency-world-record-set-36-7-efficiency-achieved-thanks-fraunhofer-ise-soitec-collaboration/feed/ 19 Cost Of Solar Set To Plummet With New 44.7% Efficiency Record http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/24/new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-44-7-set/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/24/new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-44-7-set/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:47:42 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56849 A research team in Europe has achieved a world record-setting solar conversion efficiency of 44.7 percent, and assuming that higher efficiency translates into lower costs (someday), it’s yet another indicator that we’re only at the beginning of a long decline in the cost of solar power. Solar (and wind, for that matter) is already competitive

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/24/new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-44-7-set/feed/ 24 Soitec Sets CPV Commercial Module Efficiency Record — 31.8% http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/22/soitec-sets-cpv-commercial-module-efficiency-record-31-8/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/22/soitec-sets-cpv-commercial-module-efficiency-record-31-8/#comments Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:23:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56709 Originally published on Solar Love. Soitec, a consistent leader in concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) efficiency and commercial development, this month announced that it had set a 31.8% CPV commercial module efficiency record. “Soitec’s new module, which is already in industrial volume production, has the highest efficiency of any commercial product available for multi-megawatt installations,” the company noted

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/22/soitec-sets-cpv-commercial-module-efficiency-record-31-8/feed/ 1 Interview With Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitor-based Energy Storage System http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/interview-with-maxwell-technologies-ultracapacitor-based-energy-storage-system/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/interview-with-maxwell-technologies-ultracapacitor-based-energy-storage-system/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:30:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52953 This post first appeared on San Diego Loves Green by Roy Hales A week ago, Maxwell Technologies announced they had been “been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on the campus of University of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/18/interview-with-maxwell-technologies-ultracapacitor-based-energy-storage-system/feed/ 21 CPV Market To Hit 4.7 GW By 2020 (GlobalData Report) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/11/cpv-market-by-2020-to-hit-4-7-gw-globaldata-report/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/11/cpv-market-by-2020-to-hit-4-7-gw-globaldata-report/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:00:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=50597 In order to let you know about more in-depth research on various cleantech markets, we’ve decided to partner with a leading market research firm, GlobalData. Basically, the deal is pretty simple: you get a discount on market research reports (10% off*); CleanTechnica gets a cut of the sales (yay!); and GlobalData sells more of its

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/11/cpv-market-by-2020-to-hit-4-7-gw-globaldata-report/feed/ 0 Solar Tech Improvements; Solar Project News; Solar Manufacturing News… (Solar Energy News Roundup) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/solar-tech-improvements-solar-project-news-solar-manufacturing-news-solar-energy-news-roundup/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/solar-tech-improvements-solar-project-news-solar-manufacturing-news-solar-energy-news-roundup/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:33:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39257   Other than the solar energy news we’ve already posted on, here’s some more solar energy news from the last week or so from around the cleantech interwebs: Solar Technology News Solar nanowire array may increase percentage of sun’s frequencies available for energy conversion. Changing the concentration of indium allows researchers to tune the material’s

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/21/solar-tech-improvements-solar-project-news-solar-manufacturing-news-solar-energy-news-roundup/feed/ 1 Cleantech Project News (12 Stories) http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/17/cleantech-project-manufacturing-news/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/17/cleantech-project-manufacturing-news/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:40:59 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=33080   1. Solar power systems to be installed at 15 Kaua’i schools in Hawaii. “The Hawaii state Department of Education is working to significantly reduce the cost of school operations and, as a first step, has awarded a Power Purchase Agreement contract to install photovoltaic systems at 15 Kaua’i schools,” Solarbuzz reports. “Under the agreement,

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