A solar power plant being built in Bordeaux, France, on a former landfill is expected to be the largest “urban” solar PV power plant in Europe. It is using First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) solar modules.
A French company has embedded its thin-film solar panels into a car cover. It says the device can add 15 kilometers of range if the car is parked in the sun for 8 hours.
American solar PV manufacturer First Solar released a flurry of announcements on Tuesday, first among them the unveiling of its first functional Series 6 thin film solar PV module at the company’s Ohio production line.
A new perovskite + CIGS tandem thin-film solar module — presented by researchers from KIT, ZSW, and the Belgian research institute imec at the recent PSCO international conference in Genova — has achieved a record solar conversion efficiency (for the type) — 17.8%.
Originally published on Clean Techies. Leading thin-film solar module manufacturing company First Solar recently announced the launch of a major new product that it expects to significantly reduce project costs. At Intersolar, First Solar showcased the Series 5 thin-film solar module. The module will be launched in the market with … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. As the saying goes, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. You can’t generate usable energy without some form of impact, whether it’s fossil fuels or renewables, and the Volkswagen “clean diesel” scandal provides ample evidence that technology solutions for fossil fuels are … [continued]
The first utility-scale CIS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the country of Turkey was recently commissioned, according to recent reports. The commissioning of the project followed a fairly rapid development period of around 3 months, which saw the solar modules supplied by Solar Frontier installed at the one-megawatt (MW) facility … [continued]
As new conversion efficiency world-record for a full-size, thin-film solar module of 18.6% (aperture area efficiency) has been set by First Solar, according to a new press release. The new cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module module marks the first time that the company has shown-off a module that outperforms “the … [continued]
Siva Power, based in San Jose, California, has won a competitive award from the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative. The award includes a $3 million grant to help develop its thin-film solar power technology. Siva is developing copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells using a co-evaporation process. If this … [continued]
A new tandem thin-film silicon solar cell efficiency record was recently set by a PhD student at TU Delft by the name of Hairen Tan. The new record conversion efficiency of 14.8% was achieved via the use of a variety of “innovative techniques” for which Tan was awarded the Young … [continued]
