For Chinese solar manufacturers, the fourth quarter is the most important time for solar photovoltaic installations. It is then that Chinese vendors speed up deployment to meet the central government’s annual targets. The Chinese ...
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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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Due to new components, power electronic converters for power engineering applications are becoming even more efficient. In particular, silicon carbide (SiC) devices enable the construction of extremely efficient and compact power electronic ...
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Semprius Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules, has manufactured the first four-junction, four-terminal stacked solar cell using its proprietary micro transfer printing process ...
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Solar Power Systems can be a good alternative to the energy derived from limited fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. More than 85 percent of the energy consumed around the world comes from these resources and if these resources ...
In its search for more advantageous materials and processes for manufacturing efficient thin-film solar cells, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — ...
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The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
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ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised its energy conversion efficiency record for thin-film ...
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Semprius Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules, has raised its own world record for mass-produced photovoltaic module efficiency from 33.9% (announced in January 2012) to 35.5% ...
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In a round-robin test, Germany‘s Fraunhofer ISE CalLab PV Modules compared its results with three other leading international measurement labs for photovoltaic (PV) modules: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the USA, the ...
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Modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared with those based on silicon (Si). Advantages include increased power density per volume and ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
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The domestic renewable energy industry has condemned the Government's suggestion to do away with the 2008 Planning and Energy Act. The Act, promoted by Michael Fallon, who is now Energy Minister, provides local authorities with the ...
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Trina Solar Limited has recently supplied 7MW of photovoltaic modules to Ikaros Solar, a leading company dedicated to the installation of green solar energy systems, for an agricultural project in the UK. A large-scale solar system will ...
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VDE Americas (a subsidiary of Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute) and First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, ...