Latest Commercially viable perovskite cells are yet to enter the market due to the material’s volatility. Image: Niels van Loon. US solar technology company Swift Solar has secured US$27 million to develop its perovskite tandem solar cell manufacturing activities. The funding was delivered in a Series A financing round led by Eni Next, the corporate […]
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A reservoir is many things: a source of drinking water, a playground for swimmers, a refuge for migrating birds. But if you ask solar-power enthusiasts, a reservoir is also not realizing its full potential. That open water could be covered with buoyant panels, a burgeoning technology known as floating photovoltaics, aka “floatovoltaics.” They could simultaneously
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With an estimated distance of 140 parsecs (457 light-years), the L-subdwarf star CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) has a total speed of at least 600 km/s, exceeding the local Galactic escape velocity. Remarkably, this star was likely ejected from a globular cluster located in the outer Galactic plane in the past 10-30 million years. A
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Summer may not be as great for solar panels as you think. Here’s how to keep the energy flowing all summer long. Few of us are probably thrilled by the increasingly hot summers induced by climate change. But all that sunshine is at least good for solar power, right? Well, not necessarily. Solar production does
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews , Long Reads Earlier this month JinkoSolar also reached a 33.24% power conversion efficiency with a TOPCon perovskite tandem solar cell. Image: JinkoSolar Solar PV manufacturer JinkoSolar has achieved a 25.42% conversion efficiency with an 182mm TOPCon module. The module efficiency was tested by German testing company TÜV
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews , Long Reads According to the study, the median customer saw a 1.7 percentage point decline in energy burden, which translates to US$1,987 in annual bill savings. Image: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory New research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has found that the installation of rooftop
For an industry that’s about 20 years old, residential solar is still pretty tumultuous. Some of that can be blamed on shifting regulations, like what happened in California last year where a policy update lengthened the amount of time it took for homeowners to recoup their investments. But other bumps can be attributed to the
May’s historic auroras were blasted from magnetically active regions like those prominently seen near the sun’s equator in this image by Aditya-L1’s SUIT payload. (Image credit: ISRO) Last month, auroras that may have been the strongest in the past 500 years wowed observers around the world for a full weekend. Now, a space probe has
Underestimating losses amid data uncertainty The first article in the report, produced by kWh Analytics itself, notes that mistakes in the solar sector’s modelling processes can underestimate financial losses due to physical damage, such as extreme weather events including hailstorms, by over 300%. This suggests that the industry is struggling to make effective use of
Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads Top solar manufacturers have continued their expansion despite overcapacity concerns. Image: JA Solar. Chinese solar manufacturers continue to dominate the solar industry, with Wood Mackenzie’s latest module manufacturer rankings including nine Chinese companies among the top 12 manufacturers. In Wood Mackenzie’s top ten solar PV module manufacturer
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