Another study came out recently showing that solar and wind power are the cheapest options in town for new electricity supply. This has been the case for at least a few years, as study after study after study has shown, and as indicated by the majority of new power capacity … [continued]
The world’s first building-integrated field test of a one square meter perovskite solar panel, made by Saule Technologies, has just begun on Skanska’s Spark office in Warsaw, with a projected 5 cent per kilowatt-hour levelized cost of energy, according to Saule.
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 … [continued]
The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE in Boston and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg released their first solar panel durability report and placed the SunPower E20 model first in their PV Durability Initiative (PVDI). “The potential for PV modules to fail in advance … [continued]
