History of solar cell efficiency and the different panel technologies commercially available
A solar panel is a solar panel is a solar panel, right? Not exactly. They’re kind of like cars. While all cars have wheels, a...
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Posts Tagged: "Efficiency"
New hybrid solar converter generates electricity and steam with high efficiency and low cost
Tulane University researchers are part of a team of scientists who have developed a hybrid solar energy converter...
Approach to circumvent a major loss process that currently limits the efficiency of commercial solar cells
Experimental condensed matter physicists in the Department of Physics at the University of Oklahoma have developed an approach...
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have fabricated a solar cell with an efficiency of nearly 50 percent
The six-junction solar cell now holds the world record for the highest solar conversion efficiency at 47.1%, which was measured under concentrated illumination. A variation...
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of a new generation of electronics
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of a new generation of electronics that will require less...
Canadian Solar reports a 23.81% conversion efficiency, a world record, for silicon solar cells
Ontario — Canadian Solar announced its technology team set a world record of 23.81% conversion efficiency for n-type...
Ontario needs to reconsider its current electricity demand problems and focus on conservation efforts
The “false alarm” earlier this year at Ontario’s Pickering nuclear power plant, and the subsequent revelation that Doug Ford’s Conservative government intends to further extend...
JinkoSolar claims to have broken the world record for Bifacial Modules conversion efficiency
Shanghai — JinkoSolar announced that the maximum conversion efficiency of its bifacial solar modules reached 22.49%, breaking the...
JA Solar granted patent rights to gallium-doped silicon wafers for solar cell applications from Shin-Etsu Chemical
China — JA Solar has reached an agreement with Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan to license its intellectual properties...
How do extreme weather conditions affect solar efficiency?
North America is experiencing one of its coldest spells in recent years, with temperatures dropping to -20F(-29C). And...
Using solar energy, hydrogen can be produced and shipped to customer at reduced cost
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach to the production of hydrogen from water using solar energy. In findings published in Nature...
Graphene helps make satellite-powering technology seven times more efficient
Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional power stations to...
Las Vegas city’s municipal power is now entirely renewable
Last week, Boulder Solar 1—a massive solar array in the southeast corner of Nevada—went online. Adding geothermal plants,...
Simulation brings global 100% renewable electricity system alive for the first time
A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and wind works in all regions...
New all-inorganic Perovskite with Exceptional Solar Cell Properties
Scientists with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make...
Discovery of a new way of producing perovskites maintains solar efficiency when scaled up
With the high environmental cost of conventional energy sources and the finite supply of fossil fuels, the importance...