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Ember: World on pace to have nearly 4TW of surplus solar manufacturing capacity by 2030

Ember: World on pace to have nearly 4TW of surplus solar manufacturing capacity by 2030

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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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Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show

Commercial perovskite solar modules at SNEC 2024 trade show

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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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Swift Solar bags US$27 million for US perovskite development

Swift Solar bags US$27 million for US perovskite development

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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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Coming soon to a lake near you: Floating solar panels

Coming soon to a lake near you: Floating solar panels

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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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Citizen Scientists Discover Hypervelocity L-Subdwarf Star in Solar Neighborhood

Citizen Scientists Discover Hypervelocity L-Subdwarf Star in Solar Neighborhood

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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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JinkoSolar 182mm TOPCon module reaches 25.42% conversion efficiency

JinkoSolar 182mm TOPCon module reaches 25.42% conversion efficiency

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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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LBNL: Residential solar installations save US homes an average of US$1,987 on energy bills

LBNL: Residential solar installations save US homes an average of US$1,987 on energy bills

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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

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Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market

Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market

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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

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India’s Aditya-L1 solar probe snaps shots of our hyperactive sun during May outburst (photos)

India’s Aditya-L1 solar probe snaps shots of our hyperactive sun during May outburst (photos)

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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

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