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Precipitable Water effect on Spectral Shift and Solar PV Module Energy

Amit Kumar Mittal, Technical Director, First Solar Power India Kendra Passow, Performance and Prediction Engineer, First Solar Mitchell Lee, Performance and Prediction Engineer, First Solar Introduction:   Photovoltaic (PV) module technologies are characterized according to Standard Test Conditions (STC) as per IEC 60904-3 1. This standard defines reference conditions at an irradiance level of 1000 […]

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This solar-charged battery directly stores energy from sunlight in a tank

Researchers at University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed solar-charged battery that directly stores energy from sunlight in a tank. Song Jin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has integrated the solar cell with a large-capacity battery. He and his colleagues have made a single device that eliminates the usual intermediate step of making […]

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This Solar Cell is highly efficient and can harvests more of sun’s energy

  A team of researchers from MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has developed new solar cell that includes two different layers of sunlight-absorbing material to harvest a broader range of the sun’s energy and that costs less than its counterparts. The researchers call the device a “step cell,” because the two […]

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USAID collaborates with GE to improve standards in Indian solar industry

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced to fund and promote research in partnership with the General Electrics to improve standards in the Indian solar industry. This is one of the 49 projects selected by USAID’s US Global Development Lab today that would receive a total of USD 10 million to address critical […]

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New Solar Technology to use Desert Sand to Store Energy

Researchers in Abu Dhabi have tested a pilot device that can store solar energy in sand to improve the efficiency of power plants and provide energy during night. Developed at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, the device uses gravity to drain sand from a higher basin into a lower one, heating up the […]

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Solar-powered oxygen delivery system saving lives in Uganda

There is a twist in the use of renewable energy; now solar power is being used in saving children’s lives in Africa. Asolar poweared oxygen delivery system created by Michael Hawkes, an assistant professor in the University of Alberta’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases is providing concentrated oxygen in hospitals for children suffering from severe […]

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New architecture to produce an affordable solar cell

Researchers have developed new architecture that can produce an affordable solar cell with efficiencies comparable to conventional silicon solar cells and takes very few processing steps. The new architecture uses unconventional, transparent materials that can be placed at room temperature – the process is currently used to increase the electrical conductivity of key surfaces in […]

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India, UK to work together as R&D partners in Solar Energy and Nano Material Research

India and UK have agreed to work together in two major initiatives in the fields of Solar Energy and Nano Material Research..Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan announced about the initiative after the 5th Indo-UK Science and Innovation Council Meeting (SIC). SIC is the apex body which oversees the […]

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Meet the Ultra-thin photovoltaics that are flexible enough to wrap around a pencil

Researchers in South Korea have developed flexible photovoltaic that could power wearable electronics like fitness trackers, smartwatches and smart glasses in future. The ultra-thin photovoltaics are flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The researchers have presented the report results in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.  “Our photovoltaic is about 1 […]

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