Photovoltaic Technology News
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A Recap of Cohort #2: Advanced Insights on Technological Trends in PV
The solar energy achievers are constantly looking for professional growth opportunities. Recognizing the importance of staying updated with important PV market trends, we recently concluded the 2nd cohort of the much-anticipated online course titled “Advanced Insights on Technological Trends in PV.” Held on February 22-23, this event brought together solar energy professionals and ...
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A+ Sun Systems Solar Tensile Structures Among The 20 Most Promising Technologies In Pv Market
Array Changing Technologies: As another year of solar innovations marches on, with exciting new products and models being introduced up and down the supply chain, pv magazine has brought together a jury of industry experts to honor those technologies whose potential is truly Array Changing. Here, we’ve added another 10 innovations to those featured back in June, and tasked our expert jury ...
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A+ Sun Systems solar tensile structures is 7th most promising technologies in PV market
Array Changing Technologies.: Innovation abounds in the PV industry. To recognize this and identify some of the key innovations driving power outputs up and LCOE down, pv magazine has handpicked 50 downstream technologies from around the world and across the supply chain that have the ability to make a major impact on solar arrays today and in the future. Many of the top 50 technologies will be ...
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Success Story Putting Solar Energy Installation on Autopilot
On a bright, sunny morning, a team of machines settles in for a day of work. Their location: the construction site for a large-scale solar power plant. Their task: to install rows upon rows of solar panels, which will soon generate clean energy to power American homes, businesses, and communities. While that may sound like an excerpt of science fiction, Terabase Energy received a $1 million ...
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New Study Confirms EUR 1 Trillion Africa's Extraordinary Green Hydrogen Potential
Harnessing Africa's solar energy to produce 50 million tons of green hydrogen a year by 2035 can help secure global energy supply, create jobs, decarbonize heavy industry, enhance global competitiveness and transform access to clean water and sustainable energy. The analysis has been commissioned by the European Investment Bank, the International Solar Alliance and the African Union, with the ...
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Teknisolar involved in developing European pilot line for innovative photovoltaic technology based on tandem solar cells
PEPPERONI, a four-year Research and Innovation project co-funded under Horizon Europe and jointly coordinated by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Qcells, will support Europe in reaching its renewable energy target of climate neutrality by 2050. The project will help advance perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics (PV) technology’s journey towards the market introduction and mass manufacturing. ...
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RENAC’s Popular Green Energy Summer School Starts Again In-person in August
This August, RENAC will welcome participants back to the RENAC Training Centre in Berlin, Germany for the popular Green Energy Summer School (GESS). It will run from 22 August to 2 September 2022. There are two courses in this programme: Introduction to Renewable Energy Technologies and Management and Economics of Photovoltaic (PV) Projects. These courses are designed for individuals interested ...
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In a world first, photovoltaic solar panels were installed on protected sites
Integrating photovoltaic solar panels onto historic protected sites has often been a problem without a real solution. However, an important milestone has been reached in the village of Ecuvillens, located in the Swiss canton of Fribourg, where terracotta-red solar panels have been installed on the roof of a farmhouse. Developed by CSEM (Swiss center for microelectronics and microtechnologies) and ...
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Evolar releases new video with insights into its disruptive PV Power Booster technology
Continuing the thread from the previously released teaser, Evolar has now revealed a new video exploring different aspects of its disruptive technology, PV Power Booster. Supported by tailor-made animations and illustrations, the origin and use of perovskite, a key component of its technology, is explained together with the tandem cell concept. Lars Stolt, Evolar's CSO and co-founder, together ...
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What is a PV Solar System? A Complete Guide
Solar energy has been quickly emerging as an alternative energy source. As of now, the country’s solar installed capacity was 48.556 GW as of November 2021. The nation’s solar capacity has grown eighteen times in the last seven years. At an event, the Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Choubey said “Installed capacity of solar energy in India has increased by more than ...
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New Reports From NREL Document Continuing PV and PV-Plus-Storage Cost Declines
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released its annual cost breakdown of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage systems. U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmark: Q1 2021 details installed costs for PV systems as of the first quarter of 2021.Costs continue to fall for residential, commercial rooftop, and utility-scale PV systems—by 3%, 11%, ...
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EDF Renewables N. America and Clean Power Alliance Sign Power Purchase Agreement
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) and Clean Power Alliance (CPA) recently announced the signing of a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement for the Desert Quartzite Solar-plus-Storage project. The project, consisting of a 300 megawatt (MWac) solar project coupled with a 600 MWh battery energy storage system, is expected to begin delivery of clean electricity to CPA's customers throughout Los Angeles ...
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Percistand Digital Workshop on June 9th
Perovskite on CI(G)S tandem is an all-thin-film PV technology with very high efficiency potential (greater than 30% efficiency)- the best recorded efficiency in tandem materials in the consortium currently up to 27,3% for the tandem cells*. Upcoming Academic Workshop will focus on life cycle assessment and techno-economic sustainability evaluations for the tandem perovskite/CI(G)S solar ...
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CPUC Releases Annual Report on Renewable Costs and Cost Savings
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released its annual report on the costs and cost savings of the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program. The CPUC reported that RPS procurement expenditures increased for all load-serving entities on a per gigawatt-hour basis, with the exception of the small and multi-jurisdictional utilities. The report also shows increased procurement of ...
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Major boost for thin-film solar research and development funding included in fy2021 appropriations package
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (OTC-PK: ASTI), a developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art, lightweight and flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions (“Ascent” or the “Company”), announces that the Company could receive significant support as part of H.R. 133, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, specifically potential allocation ...
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Array Technologies establishes “Array Tech Research Center” to accelerate tracker innovation and strengthen customer collaboration
Array Technologies (NASDAQ: ARRY) (“Array”), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of ground-mounted systems used in solar energy projects, today announced the creation of the Array Tech Research Center, a site dedicated to researching, developing and field testing advanced solar tracker technology. Located in Phoenix, AZ, the Research Center will serve as a proving ground ...
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Solar Energy Market Projected to Reach USD 200 billion by 2026
According to the report, The global solar energy market in 2019 was above USD 50 billion. The market is expected to grow around a CAGR of 20% and is anticipated to reach over USD 200 billion by 2026. A radiant energy generated by the sun is solar energy, harnessed by the use of various technologies such as photovoltaic cells, solar heating, solar architecture, solar thermal energy and others. It ...
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Webinar - Advanced Interconnection Technologies
In this webinar we discuss advanced interconnection technologies as developed at Solliance partners TNO and Forschungszentrum Jülich. Interconnection technology is needed to create a working solar module from a stack of thin-film photovoltaic layers. Together with researchers Veronique Gevaerts and Stefan Haas we take a look to different strategies to create different cells on a thin-film ...
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Zytech Solar and Energyweb. Partners to Create Blockchain-ready Solar PV Systems
Today Zytech Solar announced that it had become the newest member of Energy Web. Together the two organizations also jointly unveiled an initiative to develop blockchain-ready solar PV systems that are out-of-the-box compatible to transact on the Energy Web Decentralized Operating System (EW-DOS). “We’re proud to welcome Zytech to the Energy Web ecosystem,” said Jesse Morris, ...
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New Research Initiative: Opportunities for PHD’S with grant
Solliance starts a new initiative that renews our close collaboration with our partner universities and institutes. From today, we offer young talents to work in a vibrant and well connected research ecosystem and invite them to execute their thin-film photovoltaic PhD research in the Solliance network at one or several of our research partners. We would like to share our cutting-edge ...
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