Sharp Corporation (Osaka, Japan) has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell, the company announced on June 14th, 2013. These solar photovoltaic (PV) cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the cells to generate electricity. Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ...
For only the second time since 2006, global investments in renewable energy in 2012 failed to top the year before, falling 12% mainly due to dramatically lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets, says the Frankfurt School – UNEP/BNEF report, Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2013. However, with $244 billion (including small ...
China-based Solargiga Energy Holdings has signed a new contract to include 370MW of PV modules in 2013. This makes Solargiga, Sharp’s largest PV product supplier, according to the company. Having been a long-term supplier of ingots and solar wafers to Sharp Corporation, China-based Solargiga Energy Holdings has signed a new deal to include 370MW of ...
ABB has developed a high-capacity flash charging electric bus system that provides a 400KW boost at selected stops in just 15 seconds. ABB announced at the 60th congress of the International Association of Public Transport (UTIP) in Geneva that it is working together with the city’s public transport company (TGP), the Office for the Promotion ...
The Battle Of The Electric Cars The Impart Of The Electric Car Electric Vehicles vs. Regular Gasoline Cars ...
Could a Photovoltaic installation to compete with a large, centralized nuclear plant, given current technical and economic constraints? I suppose the answer is no – not without a lot of land use, transmission build out, and some sort of storage solution to smooth supply and demand. But is that really the world you want anyway? ...
Researchers at Australia’s Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) — a collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash University and industry partners — have successfully printed an A3 sheet of photovoltaic cells. The printer is relatively cheap and uses common industrial chemicals and the resulting solar cells ...
