A new report released today analyzed how much electricity prices for Texas consumers would have been reduced in the summer of 2011 by adding solar capacity to the Texas electricity market. In total, it found potential savings of over $520 million for state electricity consumers. Additionally, the study found that … [continued]
Engineers have mostly designed solar power plants using CAD programs, “with every layout and every variation painstakingly generated separately,” a news release from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft writes. Now, however, researchers from Fraunhofer and researchers at Siemens Energy Photovoltaics have developed special software that simplifies this conceptual design. Here’s more from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: [R]esearchers at the … [continued]
New research out of the University of Southern California (USC) advances the development of “cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and be painted or printed onto clear surfaces.” This is exciting stuff, in my opinion. Here’s more from USC: … [continued]
A team of scientists headed up by Princeton University has achieved a whopping 47 percent increase in electricity generation from flexible plastic solar cells, simply by texturing the surface to mimic the wrinkles of a typical leaf. The biomimicry approach has resulted in a low cost, elegant solution for polymer-based … [continued]
In order to advance solar technology and the competitiveness of U.S. solar companies, a whole slew of U.S. solar industry players have banded together to form the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC). Its founding members were announced on Friday.
