photovoltaic performance News
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How to use Photovoltaics for shaping performative landscapes
The parallel event “Photovoltaics, Forms, Landscapes” will take place on Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at the CCH Congress Centre Hamburg in the framework of the 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition organised by WIP - Renewable Energies. The parallel event will highlight the interaction of photovoltaic systems with buildings and landscapes, by showing how ...
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New research facilities to support solar technologies in the EU
New facilities are being inaugurated today at the European Solar Test Installation (ESTI), managed by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC). The upgraded laboratories allow ESTI to assess the performance of new and improved photovoltaic (PV) devices, to perform pre-normative research and to help develop international standards. At the current ...
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NREL, International Colleagues Propose Strategy for Stable, Commercial Perovskite Solar Cells
A strategy for producing stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has been proposed by Kai Zhu and Keith Emery at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Nam-Gyu Park (Korea), Michael Grätzel (Switzerland), and Tsutomu Miyasaka (Japan). Solar cells using a halide perovskite with an organic cation such as ...
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SMA America Helps Solar Power System Managers Keep Up-to-Date with Mobile Performance Data
SMA AMERICA HELPS SOLAR POWER SYSTEM MANAGERS KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH MOBILE PERFORMANCE DATASMA Sunny Portal Web Site now Optimized for Cellular PhonesSolar power system owners and operators can now assess critical performance data on the go, through the release of the SMA Sunny Portal Web site optimized for cell phones, announced SMA America, Inc. Administrators. The Sunny Portal is a free ...
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Call for Papers open for 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam
The experts of the PV solar community will meet in Amsterdam to discuss new concepts, trends and developments in science and industry. The EU PVSEC provides the most inspiring platform for dialogue and information exchange across the world. The next European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2017), the leading international conference in photovoltaics, will be held in ...
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ET Solar Receives Certisolis Certificates for BIPV Frameless Modules
ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces obtainment of NF-EN 61215 and NF-EN 61730 type approval certificates for its BIPV frameless modules from Certisolis Test Centre ("Certisolis"). At Certisolis, ET Solar frameless modules passed various stringent tests on preconditioning, initial evaluations, damp heat, mechanical load and module ...
By ET Solar
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NREL simulates shade conditions in repeatable test for solar arrays
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a new repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with much greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array. The new test demonstrated that under heavy shading conditions the use of microinverters instead of typical string inverters can help mitigate the ...
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ET Solar Receives Certisolis Certificates for BIPV Frameless Modules
ET Solar Group Corp. ("ET Solar"), a leading solar one-stop solution provider, today announces obtainment of NF-EN 61215 and NF-EN 61730 type approval certificates for its BIPV frameless modules from Certisolis Test Centre ("Certisolis"). At Certisolis, ET Solar frameless modules passed various stringent tests on preconditioning, initial evaluations, damp heat, mechanical load and module ...
By ET Solar
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Spectroscopy Probes the Energy-Level Landscape of Solar Cells
A new spectroscopic method developed by researchers at Heidelberg University could enable scientists to study the physical principles of organic photovoltaics with extreme precision to better understand how energetic losses occur. The new method combines ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and argon cluster etching to allow scientists to directly visualize the vertical energetic landscape in ...
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Soltec launches the SF8, the largest Single-row Tracker on the market
Soltec, leading manufacturer and supplier of single-axis solar trackers worldwide, presents its new SF8 tracker. Under the slogan “engineered for greatness”, the SF8 tracker aims to revolutionize the photovoltaic market with its new minimum 2×60 configuration and 4 to 6-strings. This elegantly designed tracker reinforces its structure to facilitate installation and favors high ...
By Soltec
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ASTM E2848 - 11 standard test method for reporting photovoltaic non-concentrator system performance
Because there are a number of choices in this test method that depend on different applications and system configurations, it is the responsibility of the user of this test method to specify the details and protocol of an individual system power measurement prior to the beginning of a measurement. Unlike device-level measurements that report ...
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Mecasolar’s orders surpass 140 MW for 2008
Mecasolar, a company that designs, manufactures and distributes dual-axis solar trackers has surpassed the 140 MW mark in orders for 2008. This figure converts the company into the European leader both in terms of its capacity to manufacture—14,000 trackers a year and its four manufacturing plants: Fustiñana, Ribaforada and Tudela, in Navarra; and Talavera la Real, Badajoz; along with its number ...
By Mecasolar
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Ascent Solar Chairman to Retire at End of Year
Company Enters Manufacturing and Commercialization Phase of Development, Names New Chairman THORNTON, Colo. - Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of state-of-the-art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that its Chairman, Dr. Mohan Misra, will be retiring from his position on the Board of Directors, effective December 31, 2010. Dr. Misra has decided that due ...
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Intertek Supports Increased Trade and Global Market Access for Solar Product Manufacturers
Intertek(LSE: ITRK), a leading provider of quality and safety solutions today said that ongoing development in solar power technologies will fast-track the demand for global industry standards as the company prepares to attend and provide expert commentary at the APEC Solar Technology and Conformance Initiative meetings held in San Francisco, California, from ...
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Efficiency record of 17.6% on flexible CIGS solar cell on plastic developed at EMPA
Flexible thin film solar cells on polymer film with a new record efficiency of 17.6% have been developed by the scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA). The conversion efficiency record has been independently certified by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany. Scientists under the leadership of Dr. Ayodhya N. ...
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DECK Monitoring Partners With NREL to Track the Performance of Innovative Photovoltaic Projects
DECK Monitoring has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to support its PV Data Acquisition (PVDAQ) project, which aims to develop and communicate a broad picture of photovoltaic (PV) field performance across the U.S. Data contributed to the PVDAQ project will be analyzed for many performance factors, the results of which are provided to the ...
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GSA Releases Latest Test Results for Innovative Building Technologies
Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) released three new reports as part of its Green Proving Ground program, which tests building technologies in real-world situations to evaluate their potential to save energy, water, and reduce utility costs. Through the Green Proving Ground, GSA is finding new ways that federal buildings across the nation can save taxpayer dollars, while also ...
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Photovoltaic Module Standard Proposed by ASTM To Focus on Issues of Durability and Functional Service Life
Standards relating to the performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules have historically focused on initial qualification testing and not issues of durability and functional service life. Subcommittee E44.09 on Photovoltaic Electric Power Conversion is now working on a proposed new standard that will cover these long-term issues: ASTM WK25362, Practice for Photovoltaic Module Reliability Assessment. ...
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Natcore Makes Major Advancements In Black Silicon, Discovers Compelling New Application
Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; NTCXF.PK) has made major strides in advancing its black silicon solar cells to commercial levels of efficiency and, as part of its development process, has discovered that its technology could finally provide the industry with a low-cost selective emitter application.Natcore's initial black silicon solar cells, the first full-size black silicon cells produced ...
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Nanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically active semiconductors in arrays of nanoscale pillars, each a single crystal, with dimensions measured in billionths of a meter. “To take ...
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