When Yifeng Chen was a teenager in Shantou, China, in the early 2000s, he saw a TV program that amazed him. The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity […]
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June 13, 2024 10:52 AM Transparency and integrity are important in every single industry. But as Randy French, CEO of Independent Solar, has found, those values are of particular importance in the solar industry. “There are many customers that won’t go solar just because of what they’ve heard,” he says. “There’s a lot of misrepresentation.”
As a result, more than half of the world’s solar capacity – 3,837GW – is set to go unused, the “spare” capacity in the report’s title, drawing a clear distinction between the world’s ambitious solar manufacturing programmes, and relatively lacking deployment initiatives. For instance, the report notes that even the world’s most ambitious climate targets
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China’s Utmo Light showcased its first full perovskite PV module at this weeks SNEC PV trade fair in Shanghai, underscoring the technology’s ongoing shift toward commercialization. June 13, 2024 Marian Willuhn Utmo Light President Zhenrui Yu Image: pv magazine, Marian Willuhnn Utmo Light, a Chinese perovskite company, is showcasing its first commercial perovskite solar module
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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
