Beverly Hills gets a first, a Faraday Future Flagship Brand Experience Center. Sysco plans to purchase 800 battery electric Freightliner eCascadias. For those and a few more other stories, look at the EV news roundup below. Electric Car News Vinfast Partners with FCA Bank, Reveals VF 8 & VF 9 … [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.
If you were to walk into a solar store and purchase some of their best-selling PV panels, it is likely that their solar irradiance-to-electricity conversion efficiency would be around 17%. This is the typical efficiency (Fraunhofer ISE Photovoltaics Report, 2017) of the top-selling PV product, a multi-crystalline silicon panel. This means that for a typical panel, 17% of all incident solar energy is converted directly to usable electricity. This is quite impressive for a device that has no moving parts and can generate power at the location where the electricity is required (no transmission losses). It is no wonder that PV is already one of the cheapest power technologies available.
More bad news for coal: new record-breaking perovskite solar cell from Belgium’s IMEC is designed with high volume manufacturing in mind.
Originally published on Sustainnovate. The Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, a 2015 Zayed Future Energy Prize winner, has joined the Solliance perovskite solar research and development project — which aims to develop a scalable roll-to-roll production process for perovskite solar cells, amongst other things. The Japanese company joined the European research … [continued]
A new conversion efficiency record for a Large Area Industrial Crystalline Silicon n-PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally diffused) solar cell of 22.02% was recently achieved by the research firm Imec, as per a recent press release. The new record efficiency — which was calibrated at ISE CalLab — represents the … [continued]
