Flexible Solar Moves One Step Closer to Mass Market With DaZheng Updated On Tue, Jul 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy A 10 year old Chinese startup, DaZheng, has become the first firm worldwide to produce large, flexible perovskite solar panels at scale, with a promised efficiency of 21%. Traditional flexible thin-film solar cells are limited by expensive raw materials and complicated manufacturing processes, which lead to the high cost and limited applications. The new flexible […] Read more
EU Hikes Solar Target to 600 GW By 2030, 320 GW by 2025 Updated On Thu, May 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy Still reeling from the aftershocks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and it’s struggle to punish Russia adequately with trade sanctions on fossil fuel exports, the EU’s updated REpowerEU strategy has reworked the maths to raise its solar targets by a 10 to 20% by 2025 and 2030 respectively. The new targets are 320GW of […] Read more
CubicPV, Waaree In Multi-Year Supply Agreement For Silicon Cells Updated On Thu, Apr 28th, 2022 by Saurenergy US solar cell manufacturer CubicPV and Waaree Energies, Ltd, a leading domestic solar module manufacturer, have announced that they have entered into a multi-year supply agreement in which CubicPV will supply, per annum, 1 GW of silicon cells to Waaree. The cells will feature wafers made with CubicPV’s innovative Direct Wafer® technology, that produces wafers […] Read more
MIT, Standford scientists use machine learning for pervoskite solar cell development Updated On Tue, Apr 26th, 2022 by Saurenergy Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s silicon-based solar photovoltaics. They hold the promise of panels that are far thinner and lighter, that could be made with ultra-high throughput at room temperature instead of at hundreds of degrees, and that are cheaper and easier to transport […] Read more
Mass-Production ready 28.7% efficient solar cell fabricated in Germany Updated On Thu, Mar 10th, 2022 by Saurenergy Q CELLS, a total energy solutions provider in solar, energy storage, downstream project business and energy retail, claims to have set a new world-record tandem cell efficiency of 28.7% in collaboration with researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, a German research centre, using a Q.ANTUM-based silicon bottom cell in combination with a perovskite-based top cell. Q CELLS’ […] Read more
Scientists from UK & Japan Unravel Perovskite’s High Efficiency Enigma Updated On Tue, Nov 23rd, 2021 by Saurenergy In their breakthrough collaborative work, scientists from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility in Didcot, Oxfordshire, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan have offered explanations for why perovskite materials are seemingly so tolerant of defects in their structure. Their findings have been published in Nature […] Read more
Scientists in Saudi Arabia Make 27% Efficient n-i-p Perovskite Tandem Cell Updated On Tue, Jul 13th, 2021 by Saurenergy Researchers led by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have demonstrated a tandem cell based on an n-i-p perovskite stacked on top of a silicon heterojunction cell that achieved 27% efficiency, breaking the previous record of 22%. Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are currently of interest thanks to their high power […] Read more
Green Alliance Invests in EneCoat Tech to Advance Perovskite Research Updated On Thu, Jul 1st, 2021 by Saurenergy Japan-based tech company Green Science Alliance Co Ltd. has invested in EneCoat Technologies Co., a Kyoto University start-up that focuses on perovskite solar cell research. Although silicon based solar cells have been practically commercialized the most till date, a large amount of energy is needed to melt and refine raw materials to make high quality silicon. Therefore, […] Read more
1366 Tech & Hunt Perovskite Tech Announce Merger to Form CubicPV Updated On Wed, Jun 30th, 2021 by Saurenergy Massachusetts-headquartered silicon wafer maker 1366 Technologies, Inc. and Dallas-based solar technology company Hunt Perovskite Technologies, L.L.C (HPT) announced yesterday that they have merged their businesses to form a new company called CubicPV — a name that evokes the shared cubic crystal structure of both silicon and perovskite. The merger combines two disruptive technologies – 1366’s Direct […] Read more
