Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
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At least 38.4 GW of solar electricity was connected to the grid globally in 2013, but new policies in Europe have seen the technology slip back behind wind energy in terms of new deployments. Those are two of the key findings in an ...
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Yole sees $13BN CMOS image sensor market by 2018 20 Jan 2014 Consumer and automotive applications to boost market as pixel resolution improves. High-performance CMOS Analysts at Yole Développement have updated their forecast for ...
Tags: Yole, Technical challenges, CES, CMOS
Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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Thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell maker GS Hong Kong Solar has officially opened its new 150,000ft2 manufacturing plant, which has a phase-1, full-production capacity of 40MW per year. GS Solar notes that it is ...
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Solarcentury has announced it has gained planning consent to build a 13.4 MWp solar park near Eynsham, Oxfordshire in Prime Minister David Cameron's constituency. The solar park will generate enough clean solar electricity to power the ...
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Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
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BEIJING--China said it would impose tariffs on imports of U.S. raw materials used to make solar panels, but the levies fell far short of what Beijing had threatened. China's Commerce Ministry said Monday that it would impose a 6.5% tariff ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, and BELECTRIC Holding GmbH are to undertake a joint ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, and the City of Roseville, California, have signed ...
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Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
Manz AG of Reutlingen, Germany, which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules (as well as lines flat-panel displays), says it is demonstrating the standards of its CIGSfab ...
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Orta Solar the team that have developed one of the UK’s largest Solar Farm portfolios to date, has today announced that it has been awarded planning on another 5 Solar Farms in the South of the UK. “I’m thrilled for our ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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