Red-Hot Green Hydrogen Field Just Got Hotter (& Greener)
Photoelectrochemical cells can push green hydrogen directly from water without the need for standalone solar panels.
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Trina Follows Solar Cell Efficiency Record With A Bang
Another punch in the gut for fossil fuels: Trina follows up its solar cell efficiency record with a new solar power output record for Honey Plus modules.
Cost Of Solar Set To Plummet With New 44.7% Efficiency Record
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 … [continued]
New Flexible Solar Cell on Plastic Efficiency Record
Solar records are broken left and right. We can’t cover them all, of course, but try to cover the big ones. Recently, researchers ar Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, set a pretty big one. They increased the solar cell efficiency record of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (aka CIGS) from 17.6% to 18.7%, a pretty significant increase.
Boeing to Start Commercial-Scale Production of High-Efficiency (but Not Record-Breaking) Solar Cells
Sharp, GE, Google, Boeing,… who isn’t in the clean tech game these days? Boeing (yes, the airplane company) has just announced that it “plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January,” according to Bloomberg News. Boeing’s concentrating photovoltaic cells have an efficiency … [continued]
