UNSW‘s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieve... Read more
As the installation of photovoltaic solar cells continues to accelerate, scientists are looking for inexpensive materials beyond the traditional silicon that can efficiently convert sunlight... Read more
Today’s wind industry, even with the necessary batteries and other grid-scale storage, is energetically sustainable, Stanford scientists say. The worldwide demand for solar and wind po... Read more
It’s the energy storage industry’s equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush. While most Americans were paying attention to election results, news emerged out of California on Wednesday that trul... Read more
Did you know that crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights and could be fundamental to the future in solar energy technology? Crystals are at the heart of... Read more
The system is waterproof, and it has been tested in a wind tunnel If you look around at the rooftop solar installations, you’ll notice that the solar panels aren’t actually part of the roof... Read more
“We are heading towards wholesale grid parity several years earlier than expected.” A new Silicon Valley developer of thin film solar PV modules, backed by an Australian venture capit... Read more
High efficiency in thin film solar cells based on abundantly available and cheap materials A group of researchers led by Hendrik Bolink of the Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) of the Sc... Read more
The median installed price of residential and commercial PV systems completed in 2011 fell by roughly 11 to 14 percent from the year before The installed price of solar photovoltaic (PV) pow... Read more
KPMG believes that the solar lease model could become a game-changer. Rapid fall in solar prices and increase in cost of conventional power driven by fuel shortages has brought ‘grid-p... Read more
It is available for commercial photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated photovoltaic (CV) installations. Although solar trackers can significantly increase the energy output of solar cells by keep... Read more
Two Queen’s researchers have contributed to a significant breakthrough in solar technology. Their research has led to a new solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system that generates both electr... Read more
You could feed solar, wind and diesel into this system to ensure the availability of power CURRENTLY used in remote communities to regulate the unreliable electricity supply, the Grid Power... Read more
Sandia developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic (PV) cells that could revolutionize solar energy collection. The crystalline silicon micro-PV cells will be cheaper and have greater e... Read more
It notes that PV energy produced in 2011 is 1,200GWh, but by 2020 this could be the monthly generation The Australian Energy Market Operator has produced a landmark report that, for t... Read more
