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Claims for solar cell efficiency put to test at NREL
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
The sheet of paper taped to the door of Keith Emery's office tells the story. On the paper is a simple fever chart showing the improvements made in increasing t...
SMA and SolarEdge solar inverter businesses booming, on back of United States growth
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
SMA and SolarEdge both reported strong revenue and profit growth in their recent earnings calls, on the back of significant success in the Unites States PV mark...
Obama seeks to double US funds for clean energy research
Feb 08, 2016 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Saturday proposed doubling US funding over the next five years for clean energy research and development, as part of his ongoing effor...
Host-guest nanowires for efficient water splitting and solar energy storage
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
California is committed to 33 percent energy from renewable resources by 2020. With that deadline fast approaching, researchers across the state are busy explor...
Morocco launches first solar power plant
Feb 04, 2016 (AFP)
King Mohammed VI on Thursday inaugurated Morocco's first solar power plant, a massive project that the country sees as part of its goal of boosting its clean en...
Lockheed Martin taps more solar power
Feb 02, 2016 (UPI)
U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin said it signed a deal to buy enough solar-generated energy to power its entire domestic business segment. Lockheed signe...
Simplifying solar cells with a new mix of materials
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
An international research team has simplified the steps to create highly efficient silicon solar cells by applying a new mix of materials to a standard design. ...
Dutch solar company Eternal Sun acquires Spire's Sun Simulator Business
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Dutch solar company Eternal Sun announces the purchase of Spire Corporation's sun simulator technology division. Objective testing has a critical part to play i...
Converting solar energy into electrical power using photo-bioelectrochemical cells
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
A new paradigm for the development of photo-bioelectrochemical cells has been reported in the journal Nature Energy by researchers from The Hebrew University of...
Australia doubles down on large-scale solar with launch of largest power plants
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
The Clean Energy Council has congratulated its members AGL and First Solar on the launch of the large-scale solar power plants in Broken Hill and Nyngan today, ...
LADWP Board to continue power supply transformation to clean energy
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners has unanimously approved modest power rate increases to continue transforming the city's power supply to ...
IHS confirms solar wafer supply shortage in 2016
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
In October 29 2015, IHS issued a research note to warn about a potential solar wafer supply shortage in 2016 (https://technology.ihs.com/551225/ihs-warns-of-pot...
SoloPower Systems achieves first commercial deployment in South Africa
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
SoloPower Systems has announced the completion of its first commercial-scale deployment in South Africa. The Company's ultra-light weight photovoltaic (LPV) mod...
Seeing the big picture in photosynthetic light harvesting
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
To understand what goes on inside a beehive you can't just study the activity of a single bee. Likewise, to understand the photosynthetic light-harvesting that ...
Converting solar energy into electric power via photobioelectrochemical cells
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
A new paradigm for the development of photo-bioelectrochemical cells has been reported in the journal Nature Energy by researchers from The Hebrew University of...
Cheaper solar cells with 20.2 percent efficiency
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
EPFL scientists have developed a solar-panel material that can cut down on photovoltaic costs while achieving competitive power-conversion efficiency of 20.2%. ...
NREL theorizes defects could improve solar cells
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are studying what may seem paradoxical - certain defects in silicon solar cell...
Researchers pinpoint the drivers for low-priced PV systems in the United States
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
The price of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems installed on homes and small businesses spans a wide range, and researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's La...
Morocco pushes renewable energy business opportunities
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
Morocco's recently-announced goal to generate more than half of its electricity from renewables by 2030 presents strong business opportunities, energy experts a...
On perovskites produced by mechanochemistry
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Perovskites, substances that perfectly absorb light, are the future of solar energy. The opportunity for their rapid dissemination has just increased thanks to ...
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