Flexible Solar News
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Sunrun and PG&E Collaborate on Residential Battery-Powered Virtual Power Plant
Following a year of record-high summer temperatures in California, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company this week (Feb 6) launched an innovative energy reliability program to provide meaningful and flexible support from residential solar and battery systems during the state's hottest months, when demand for energy is highest and energy supplies are tighter. Through the Energy Efficiency ...
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Ember Analysis: Europe Can Achieve Clean Power by 2035 at No Extra Cost
Modelling by energy think tank Ember reveals that Europe can achieve a clean, reliable and expanded power system by 2035, with a comparable overall cost to Europe’s current plans for a smaller and more polluting electricity supply. Upgrading the system and quadrupling growth in wind and solar capacity requires an additional upfront investment of €300-750 billion. However, ditching expensive ...
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How To Deorbit the International Space Station, the largest man-made space object in history
At Solar MEMS we are committed to the sustainability of the space environment and the importance of keeping space debris in LEO to a minimum. In this article we want to explain the plans to deorbit the International Space Station, the largest man-made space object ever made, which has been in use for 25 years and is planned to be deorbited in January 2031. The growing concern among New Space ...
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PearlX and SolarEdge Bring New Community Solar & Storage Virtual Power Plants to Texas Renters
Flexible energy provider, PearlX Infrastructure LLC, and global leader in smart energy technology, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., are collaborating on a series of first-in-kind residential clean energy projects for renters throughout Texas. Dubbed "Project TexFlex", the program deploys innovative community solar & storage virtual power plants (VPPs), enabling communities in the region to ...
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Tradeshow: Big 5 Solar
Heliatek will exhibit at the Big 5 Solar – one of the leading solar exhibitions in the Middle East. The Big 5 Solar will take place from 12- 15th September at the Dubai World Trade Center. It is part of the leading International Building & Construction Show - The Big 5. We will present our innovative organic solar film HeliaSol®. This is our ultra-light, flexible and ultra-thin ...
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Solliance will develop Quadruple tandem modules for local brewery
A large renovation project for the famous brewery Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven, known for their “trappist” beers with the brand name La Trappe is being drafted and will start in exactly one year. In their search for integrating innovative technologies and the need for sustainability they are interested in the development of flexible, light weight solar modules. Due to the status of ...
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Packaging technologies for thin-film solar modules
Depending on the use and application, flexible solar cells need a fair life time. It is important to develop materials and processes that can protect the sensitive chemical and physical composition of thin-film solar cells, during the required lifetime. Although glass is an excellent inert barrier, it is not flexible enough. Therefore Solliance is focussing on flexible, polymer based ...
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World record efficiency of 26.5% on a tandem solar cell based on a flexible CIGS solar cell
In a collaboration between USA based MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp and European Solliance Solar Research a power conversion efficiency of 26.5% on a tandem solar cell was established. The architecture combines two thin-film solar cell technologies: a top rigid semi-transparent perovskite solar cell with a bottom flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) cell. This impressive efficiency ...
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Atomic Layer Deposition for thin-film solar
In this sixth Solliance webinar, we focus on atomic layer deposition. This deposition technique is developing fast and can create ultra-thin layers with high accuracy, which maybe crucial for reliability of flexible, thin film solar. We will discuss the development new functional layers for photovoltaic applications and the challenges for scaling up (spatial) ALD roll-to-roll and sheet-to-sheet ...
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Atomic Layer Deposition for thin-film solar
In this sixth Solliance webinar, we focus on atomic layer deposition. This deposition technique is developing fast and can create ultra-thin layers with high accuracy, which maybe crucial for reliability of flexible, thin film solar. We will discuss the development new functional layers for photovoltaic applications and the challenges for scaling up (spatial) ALD roll-to-roll and ...
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First Flexible Bifacial Module Tested
In order to increase the energy yield from a noise barrier, we can make use of albedo. A large portion of the sunlight is, depending on their albedo, reflected by buildings, plants, roads and forests. By developing double sided solar cells, we can harvest extra energy from this diffuse light. And last Friday, we tested the first double sided thin-film module that we made in the project ...
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Test of floating thin-film solar module has officially started
In the Weperpolder, next to the floating solar system of Groenleven, is the test setup of the TKI project Solar @ Sea. This floating thin-film test set-up has been operational since March this year, but due to the corona measures, this could not be celebrated by the consortium partners. Moving Along Within the framework of the TKI project Solar @ Sea, a ...
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Solar Cells on Guardrail: World’s First Practice Trail Completed
TNO has conducted research together with the province of Noord-Holland and various partners into safe and sustainable generation of energy via flexible solar foil on crash barriers. With about 7,500 kilometers of guardrail in the Netherlands, a lot of solar energy can potentially be generated. The test rig with flexible solar foil on a 72-meter double ...
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Smarter Grid Solutions Finalizes Five Solutions for Flexible Solar Interconnection to Utility Grids
Clean energy software firm Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) has developed five methods that could double the capacity available for solar panels and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to connect to individual electricity substations. Using the company's ANM Element software product, utility companies can monitor the amount of power generated by solar photovoltaics (PVs), wind turbines and ...
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California Energy Commission Approves First Community Solar Proposal Under 2019 Energy Code
The California Energy Commission recently (2/20) approved Sacramento Municipal Utility District's (SMUD) Neighborhood SolarShares Program, a proposal for community solar under the 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Energy Code). The Energy Code took effect January 1, 2020, and requires a solar photovoltaic (PV) system on new single-family and low-rise residential homes. When adopted, the ...
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NEXTracker Expands Solar Tracker Offering with Launch of NX Gemini
NEXTracker, a Flex company, introduced today a new member of its smart single-axis solar tracker family—NX GeminiTM. The next-generation two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracker is optimized for customer sites with hard soils, challenging terrain, irregular parcel shapes and high-wind requirements. The combination of NEXTracker’s flagship NX HorizonTM and NX Gemini offers customers the ...
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Hanergy Officially Enters China`s pilot Free Trade Zone in Shanghai
The world's leading clean energy company, Hanergy Mobile Energy Holding Group, today announced its official entry in the New Lingang Area, a newly added area to the six-year-old Shanghai Free Trade Zone, which touted preferential tax and supportive policies to attract high-tech companies. The new Lingang area, located on the southeast coast of Shanghai, is already home to some leading companies, ...
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Portland General Electric's Ambitious Smart Grid Test Bed Launches
Portland General Electric Company recently (7/15) announced the launch of its Smart Grid Test Bed, a first-of-its-kind-project that will integrate smart grid technology on a scale never before attempted in the United States. The project aims to accelerate PGE's vision for a clean energy future through partnering with customers in entirely new ways to decarbonize the grid."We're using our Smart ...
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New Solar Permit Software to Reduce Costs and Expand Residential Markets
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and The Solar Foundation are joining the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), several national residential solar companies, and other nonprofit organizations to develop new automated permit software for distributed solar and storage, reducing the cost of solar installations and saving resources for local governments and taxpayers.NREL was ...
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Portland General Electric Announces Ambitious Smart Grid Test Bed
Portland General Electric has announced plans to file a proposal for a Smart Grid Test Bed that will integrate smart grid technology on a scale never before attempted in the United States. Slated to begin next year, the project aims to accelerate PGE's vision for a clean energy future through partnering with customers to decarbonize the grid.PGE is building and testing three smart grids within ...
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