Originally published on 1Sun4All. Solar Impulse yesterday released the great news that Solar Impulse 2 landed in Ahmedabad, India, after crossing the Arabian Sea, completing the longest distance ever flown by a solar airplane in aviation history. Bertrand Picard tweeted: “It is fantastic to arrive in #India powered by the sun!” After an 11-hour … [continued]
The world’s largest PV manufacturer, Suntech, seems to have gotten an edge as it has announced a new world record for conversion efficiency […]
It is not the world record for ALL solar cells, but for solar cells using certain cheap and highly available materials, IBM has just set a new world record. The world record is for solar cells composed of copper, tin, zinc, sulfur, selenium, or similar materials. The new record is … [continued]
Solarmer Energy broke the world record for plastic cell efficiency last year. Now, they’ve just broken it again. The new efficiency record is 7.6% and it breaks 7% for the first time.
[social_buttons] A Chinese company set a new world record in solar power efficiency this week. According to the company, Suntech Power Holdings, they achieved a 15.6% conversion efficiency on “a commercial grade multi-crystalline silicon PV module.” This breaks a 15-year-old world record set by Sandia National Labs in the US.
