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Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
"For years, people had treated the poor conductivity of organics as an unavoidable fact, and this shows that that's not always the case," said Stephen Forrest, ...
Ultrathin black phosphorus for solar-driven hydrogen economy
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Now researchers at Osaka University have developed a new catalytic system for efficiently splitting water and making hydrogen with energy from normal sunlight. ...
New gas-solid reaction for high-speed perovskite photodetector proposed
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Pervoskite materials have long been considered candidates in the semiconductor manufacturing due to their characteristics of high light absorption, carrier mobi...
Renewables and cooling tech critical to water use in India's power sector
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
The brief, Water Use in India's Power Generation - Impact of Renewables and Improved Cooling Technologies to 2030, finds that depending on the future energy pat...
Slow 'hot electrons' could improve solar cell efficiency
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
University of Groningen Professor of Photophysics and Optoelectronics Maria Antonietta Loi has now found a material in which these hot electrons retain their hi...
Perovskite solar cells: Perfection not required
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
The reason that these holes do not lead to significant short circuits between the front and back contact has now been discovered by a HZB team headed by Dr.-Ing...
NEXTracker to supply smart trackers to massive North Africa solar farm
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Egypt is increasingly turning to the sun for power as solar has become competitive with traditional generation. The World Bank reports that Egypt relied on foss...
Chinese solar boom sparks global renewables boon: study
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
After a dip in 2016, overall global investment in the sector rose 3.0 percent to a total $333.5 billion, offsetting falls in Japan, Germany and Britain, accordi...
Urban Solar installs solar LED lighting along Vancouver Island pathways
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
Urban Solar is an industry leader for installing lighting systems that perform well in challenging environments for solar energy, notably the Pacific Northwest....
Building a new generation of self-healing solar cells
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
In this work the sample is illuminated from the back of the cell, with the help of a commercially available RGB LED light. While illuminating, a tiny metallic n...
Multi-model effort highlights progress, future needs in renewable energy modeling
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
Four agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), hosted two workshops that led to a new report where the te...
Ukraine to launch its first solar plant at Chernobyl
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
The new one-megawatt power plant is located just a hundred metres from the new "sarcophagus", a giant metal dome sealing the remains of the 1986 Chernobyl accid...
Sun, wind, and power trading
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
"When a consumer uses more electrical energy from the power grid, the grid frequency drops slightly before an increased energy feed-in re-establishes the origin...
About half of new U.S. power came from renewables last year
Jan 10, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said its data combing so far shows 25 gigawatts of new electricity was added to the grid last year, with about half o...
Baron Announces Iowa State University Solar Car Team Successfully Completed 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Baron donated a custom-built Baron Threat Net package, a real-time weather intelligence software package designed to provide global forecasts with a focus on su...
New Mexico coop signs record-low contract for distributed solar energy
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc. (OCEC) will receive output from the Carrizozo project, which will be developed and owned by Chicago-based SoCore Energy,...
Scientists discover material ideal for smart photovoltaic windows
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at Berkeley Lab, a Department of Energy (DOE) national lab, discovered that a form of perovskite, one of the hottest materials in solar research cur...
Standardizing perovskite aging measurements
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
But one of the greatest obstacles on this road is stability: to be commercially viable, perovskite solar cells must also be able to maintain their efficiency ov...
Laser Evaporation Technology to Create New Solar Materials
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
Perovskites are a class of materials that - with the right combination of elements - have a crystalline structure that makes them particularly well-suited for l...
Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
"Because of the the strong performance we can achieve with low-cost, solution-processable materials, these quantum-dot-based double-pane windows and even more c...
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