You’ve perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they’ve found another use for the grey stuff: Turn it into glass and use it to assemble solar power cells right there on the Moon. Led by Dr Felix Lang of […]
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Troublesome lunar dust could soon be transformed into solar cells to help power moon bases and humanity’s push to explore further out into space. This is the promise of an international team of researchers, who say that fabricating solar panels directly on the moon, rather than shipping them from Earth, would be significantly more efficient
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The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, has inaugurated a state-of-the-art solar-powered farmers’ market in Utako, Abuja. Developed on 3,000 square meters of land, the market project was executed by Abuja Investment Company Limited (AICL) and features 50 lockup shops, 40 informal stalls, and seven warehouses. Speaking at the
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Synopsis Waaree shares fell 4.2% to ₹2,279.8 and Premier declined 2.2% to ₹889.8 on Wednesday. Bernstein said Waaree and Premier face the risk of deep-pocketed bigger groups entering the space. Agencies “It’s too early to dismiss them, but at the valuations they trade it – we think it already prices in them joining the big
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Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a Series A round as it works to launch its first low Earth orbit demonstration in 2026. The San Carlos, California-based startup, which came out of stealth last October, aims to eventually launch a constellation of
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Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads This is the third phase of the Riverstart solar park, which has a combined capacity of 300MW. Image: EDPR NA. EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) has commissioned a 100MW solar PV plant in Indiana, US. This is the third phase of the Riverstart Solar Park and
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Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads The Cider project will be New York state’s largest upon completion. Image: Cider Solar Farm. US renewable power company Hecate Energy has selected PEC Construction Management to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services at its Cider Solar Farm in New York state. The 674MWdc (500MWac) project
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The theoretical energy rate conversion – approximately 22% for commercial panels – necessitates relatively large tracts of land for PV systems. Expanding installed capacity as we are currently doing may eventually create conflicts with other land uses, such as farming. To address this, Goetzberger and Zastrow [1] propose a simple but powerful idea in 1982:
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Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads Dutch PV manufacturer MCPV has been awarded nearly €10 million in the Spanish programme. Image: MCPV. The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded more than €210 million (US$227.21 million) in funding to seven solar PV manufacturing projects. The provisional results for the RENOVAL programme were
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Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads The latest Trinasolar module has an output of 808W. Image: Trina Solar. Leading Chinese module manufacturer Trinasolar has developed an 808W solar module that uses perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. The module, which uses 210mmx105mm cells and covers 3.1 square metres, has been certified by German testing and
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