Thin-film Solar News
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NSG Group will increase Ohio solar glass capacity to supply First Solar with American product
Glass and glazing system supplier Nippon Sheet Glass Co. (NSG Group) recently announced it would invest in additional transparent conductive oxide (TCO) glass production capacity at its plant in Rossford, Ohio, to support the solar market. The float line at Pilkington North America, a member of NSG Group, will begin shipping TCO glass for solar panels by Q1 2025. Pilkington will supply glass to ...
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Commercial Operation Commences at National Grid Renewables’ Noble Solar & Storage Project
National Grid Renewables announced this week the start of commercial operation at its Noble Solar and Storage Project (Noble) in Denton County, Texas. Noble is a 275 megawatt (MW) solar and 125 megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage project located in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market that began construction last year. “With the start of operation at our Noble project, National ...
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Midsummer signs LOI’s with six customers for the delivery of more than 100 MW of solar panels
”It is clear proof of a super strong demand for our attractive and sustainable products that we in such a short time span can sign so many large offtake agreements for the future delivery of solar cells and it validates our aggressive growth plans”, said Midsummer’s CEO Sven Lindström. The recently signed LOI’s equate to 107 MW solar cells which can be compared with ...
By Midsummer
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Evaporation - Evolar’s choice for perovskite thin-film deposition
Within the solar industry, the race to commercialize perovskite solar cell technology is on. A key factor for success revolves around the choice for the deposition process of perovskite films, as this greatly influences device performance as well as meeting industrial goals, like scalability. Two main categories exist for perovskite thin-film deposition methods: solution-based processing and dry ...
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Midsummer reports record order intake in the third quarter and prepares capital acquisition for expanded production capacity
During the third quarter 2022, Midsummer reached a new record high order intake for the business area Solar roofs with SEK 37.8 million [approx. EUR 3.45m], an increase of 63 percent compared to the corresponding period last year and 110 percent compared to the previous quarter. Demand from the Swedish private market hit a new record during the quarter, while sales to commercial actors also ...
By Midsummer
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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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Lifetime of thin-film solar and mass customisation
Solliance is planning a four new webinars in the coming period. After a successful serie at the end of last years, we decided to come with a serie in depth webinars with experts from all our partners. In two of the coming episodes we focus on the research behind durability and lifetime of thin-film solar. On the other two episodes we focus on the developments and possibilities of mass ...
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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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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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Mass Customisation for solar integration in infrastucture
Solar energy everywhere. Producing tailor-made products on a large scale and affordably, this is the future of solar energy. New ways to integrate solar panels so that they are invisible or, on the contrary, become an aesthetic part of a suitable surface. Infrastructural works like noise barriers along motorways offer large areas and plenty opportunities to integrate thin-film solar cells, ...
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Innovative ways to determine degradation modes and mechanisms in thin-film solar modules
Understanding material degradation and failure mechanismes of a solar cell is the holy grail for lifetime improvement and application of solar cells in environmentally harsh conditions. Mirjam Theelen (TNO) is researching deceased CIGS solar modules. She developed a method to isolate functioning cells from a full scale module. The electrical and physical properties from this individual cell ...
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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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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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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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Webinar: Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Talking about perovskites, the word stability or lifetime soon comes up. A lot of energy has been invested in the research to arrive at stable perovskite based solar cells. New chemical composition, new layers and new barrier technologies combined made these solar cells more resilient to oxygen and moisture. The milestone of one thousand hours in at 85 degrees Celsius and 85% relative humidity is ...
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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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Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Talking about perovskites, the word stability or lifetime soon comes up. A lot of energy has been invested in the research to arrive at stable perovskite based solar cells. New chemical composition, new layers and new barrier technologies combined made these solar cells more resilient to oxygen and moisture. The milestone of one thousand hours in at 85 degrees Celsius and 85% relative humidity is ...
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Diederik Samsom (EC) and Yuri Sebregts (Shell) keynote speakers at Solliance Day
Ten years of partnership in thin-film solar research, ten years of working together on the future of solar. Thin-film solar can play a significant role for further improving the public acceptance of solar energy. This will allow a future smooth mass deployment of the highly needed solar in the world we as human beings live today. Solliance looks confident to this future where solar energy can ...
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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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