Photovoltaic Yield News
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DOE Seeks Input on Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and Building Technologies Office (BTO) have jointly issued a request for information to gather input on technical and commercial challenges and opportunities for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems. While roof-mounted solar systems on buildings are more common, BIPV systems offer other ways to site solar ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Solar energy from discarded car batteries
Original story at MIT News MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded lead-acid car batteries — a practice that could benefit both the environment and human health. As new lead-free car batteries come into use, old batteries would be sent to the solar industry rather than to landfills. And if production of ...
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New K&S Inspection Process for Identification Of Technical Problems at Thin Film PV Systems
Thin-film PV modules differ technically from crystalline silicon modules. Such modules are for a different spectral sensitivities, ie they can handle light of different wavelengths differently well, on the other hand they have different stability properties. During the construction or during plant operation with thin-film PV modules are technical particularities of the installation, system ...
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EasySolar to reduce soft costs of solar through its new designing tool
New and innovative tools are being developed to stimulate significant improvements in photovoltaic residential sector. Usually small-scale plants are the most difficult ones to sell due to “soft” costs. Hardware prices are fairly similar across countries, however non-hardware costs of solar like marketing, customer acquisition or installation labour are the main barrier of wide ...
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Eaton Offers Versatility and Long Service Life in PV Systems with New High Amperage Solar Combiner Boxes
Power management company Eaton recently introduced a series of third-party certified high-amperage solar combiner boxes from its Crouse-Hinds business. An extension to its broad balance of system (BOS) offerings, the latest combiner boxes improve photovoltaic (PV) systems and provide significant labor and material savings. “These high-amperage solar combiner boxes are essential components ...
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KM1 Communication module
The KM1 communication module is the network connection for solar and heating systems, especially suited for technicians managing large systems, heating installers and home owners who like to keep a close eye on their system. With the KM1, the system can be monitored over the Internet. VBus.net enables e. g. system yield monitoring in a comprehensive system graphic. Additionally, comfortable ...
By Resol GmbH
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NREL Expert Honored for Energy Systems Innovations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently won several prestigious awards, including honors for innovations in window air-conditioning efficiency, data sharing, and its energy-efficient computer data center. Ben Kroposki Named 2014 IEEE Fellow Dr. Ben Kroposki, director of Energy Systems Integration at NREL, has been named an IEEE Fellow, recognized for ...
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SunDrum Solar Hybrid PVT System delivers record peak 86% of Sun`s energy to Massachusetts home
SunDrum Solar LLC has achieved a solar industry one hour peak delivery record of 86% for a hybrid solar system, which generates both photovoltaic and thermal (PVT) solar energy. This record was achieved on April 24, 2013. This record breaking performance was enabled by the combination of a high performance standard Photovoltaic (PV) panel and the unique SDM 100 thermal collector from SunDrum ...
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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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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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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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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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Eoplly Solar Modules Power Alpha Energy`s 280kW Solar Project in the Silicon Valley
Eoplly New Energy Technology Co., a designer and manufacturer of solar products, and Alpha Energy Management Inc., a California-based solar project engineering company, jointly announced the completion of a 280kW roof-top solar PV system on the facility of Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADEM) LLC, located in Santa Clara, California. The Eoplly solar system was financed by East West Bank ...
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Frost & Sullivan recognizes LUXeXceL for its Pioneering Manufacturing Technology for Advanced Optics in LED Lighting
Based on its recent research on the advanced optics market for LED lighting, Frost & Sullivan presents LUXeXceL Group B.V (LUXeXceL) with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Award for its Printoptical Technology. LUXeXceL’s pioneering manufacturing process addresses the key challenges to large scale adoption of LEDs in general lighting. Currently, the majority of ...
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Jinko Solar Responds to Initiation of Anti-Dumping Investigation by European Commission
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global solar power product manufacturer states the anti-dumping allegations initiated by some European companies are both unfair and unfounded, and do not reflect the reality of the highly-competitive global solar industry. The company believes that trade protectionism will only harm fair competition in the ...
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