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RIT Researchers Use Nanowires to Enhance Solar Cell Technology

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are expanding solar cell technology using nanowires to capture more of the sun’s energy and transform it into usable electricity.

28 Jul 2017

New Optimization Model Could Provide Higher Solar-Power Integration in Residential Photovoltaic Systems

It has been established that solar power is a source of mainstream power generation throughout the world. A number of photovoltaic (PV) systems have been installed in residential homes at or near the distribution site.

26 Jul 2017

MIT Chemist Investigates Electrons and Chemical Bonds to Enhance Sustainable Energy Solutions

Troy Van Voorhis remembers being jolted by the announcement in 1989, when he was in the seventh grade, that researchers had successfully demonstrated cold fusion.

25 Jul 2017

Non-Toxic Alternative to Replace Lead-Based Solar Cells

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the United States have used theoretical and experimental techniques to demonstrate how bismuth – the so-called “green element” which can be found right next to lead on the periodic table - could be used in low-cost solar cells.

19 Jul 2017

Nanomaterial catalyst has potential to improve solar energy storage

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland have developed a new material that acts as a catalyst within the electrolyser, potentially making such devices cheaper and more efficient in the future.

18 Jul 2017

Rooftop Concentrating Photovoltaics Perform Better than Silicon in Outdoor Testing Study

In a head-to-head competition, a concentrating photovoltaic system with embedded microtracking can produce more than 50% extra energy daily than standard silicon solar cells, according to a team of Engineers who field tested a prototype unit over two sunny days in Fall last year.

18 Jul 2017

Researchers Build Solar Cell Capable of Capturing Almost All Energy of Solar Spectrum

Researchers have designed and created a prototype for a new solar cell that incorporates many cells stacked into a single device capable of trapping almost all of the energy in the solar spectrum.

12 Jul 2017

Meniscus-Assisted Method to Create Very Efficient Perovskite PV Films

A new low-temperature solution printing method allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals projected to reduce current-robbing grain boundaries. The meniscus-assisted solution printing (MASP) method increases power conversion efficiencies to approximately 20% by manipulating crystal size and orientation.

10 Jul 2017

Study Reveals Air Pollution Reduces Solar Energy Output

Air pollution and dust are cutting solar energy output globally. According to a new research, airborne particles and their accumulation on solar cells are decreasing energy output by more than 25% in some regions of the world.

27 Jun 2017

International Space Station to Test New Form of Roll-Out Solar Array

Traditional solar panels used to power satellites can be bulky with heavy panels folded together using mechanical hinges.

21 Jun 2017

Solar Energy News

RIT Researchers Use Nanowires to Enhance Solar Cell Technology

New Optimization Model Could Provide Higher Solar-Power Integration in Residential Photovoltaic Systems

MIT Chemist Investigates Electrons and Chemical Bonds to Enhance Sustainable Energy Solutions

Non-Toxic Alternative to Replace Lead-Based Solar Cells

Nanomaterial catalyst has potential to improve solar energy storage

Rooftop Concentrating Photovoltaics Perform Better than Silicon in Outdoor Testing Study

Researchers Build Solar Cell Capable of Capturing Almost All Energy of Solar Spectrum

Meniscus-Assisted Method to Create Very Efficient Perovskite PV Films

Study Reveals Air Pollution Reduces Solar Energy Output

International Space Station to Test New Form of Roll-Out Solar Array

Producing Clean Hydrogen with Near-Zero Carbon Emissions with The Hazer Process

Relocating the Growing of Food to Urban Areas

How Origin’s Solar Power Purchase Agreement is helping more Businesses go Solar

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Protecting Ozone Installations with the Primozone® BFP Backflow Protector

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Solar Energy News

1 Researchers Test Optimal Configurations for Vertical Axis Wind Turbines to Enable Cheaper Electricity for Cities

2 Researchers Demonstrate Electrochemical Strategy for CO2 Fixation

3 UMD Scientists Invent First Ever Bio-Compatible, Ion Current Battery

4 Researchers Develop Long Lasting, Energy Density Battery

5 RIT Researchers Use Nanowires to Enhance Solar Cell Technology

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