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The Top 5 Advancements in Technology Propelling the Solar Revolution

The solar industry is shining brighter than ever in 2024, thanks to advancements in solar technology in recent times. The past year has seen an incredible surge in solar power installations, taking the world’s total installed capacity to an impressive 1.6 TWdc. China is responsible for about 60 percent of these new installations, leading the […]

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Swift Solar Announces $27 Million Series A Funding Round

Swift Solar, an American solar technology company has announced the close of its $27 million Series A financing round. This milestone is a major step forward for U.S. manufacturing of advanced perovskite solar technology. The round was co-led by Eni Next and Fontinalis Partners. Eni Next, the corporate venture capital arm of Eni, invests in […]

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US To Invest $71 Million In Supporting Solar Manufacturing Research

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $71 million investment, including $16 million from the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, in research, development, and demonstration projects to grow the network of domestic manufacturers across the U.S. solar energy supply chain. The selected projects will address gaps in the domestic solar manufacturing capacity for the supply […]

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LONGi Sets New Record In Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. announced that the company has broken another world record for silicon solar cell efficiency only four months after it last set a world record in this area on May 7. As certified by Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), the new silicon heterojunction back-contact (HBC) solar cells designed […]

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Researchers Create 2D Organic Perovskites & Potential Use In 2D electronics

Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team led by Prof. LOH Kian Ping, Chair Professor of Materials Physics and Chemistry and Global STEM Professor of the Department of Applied Physics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Dr Kathy LENG, Assistant Professor of the same department, together with Dr Hwa Seob CHOI, Postdoctoral Research Fellow […]

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NUS Researchers Invent New Triple-Junction Tandem Solar Cells With Higher Efficiency

National University of Singapore (NUS) scientists developed a triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell. These cells achieved a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1 percent across a solar energy absorption area of 1 sq cm. It claims to be one of the best-performing triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cells thus far. The team engineered a new […]

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CubicPV Blames Collapsing Prices To Abandon 10GW Solar Wafer Plant In US

US solar cell and module manufacturer CubicPV has abandoned its plans for a 10GW solar wafer manufacturing facility in the US and is “restructuring” its business to focus on its tandem technology module development. Plans for the 10 GW facility to manufacture wafers using CubivPVs  core silicon and perovskite technologies to provide semiconductor combination for […]

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Oxford PV Achieves 25% Solar Cell Efficiency; Claims World Record

Oxford PV, a British firm pioneering advanced photovoltaic cell technology, has claimed to have achieved a remarkable 25% conversion efficiency, surpassing the typical 24% efficiency of commercially available silicon-based solar cells.  Oxford PV says that this is now a new world record in solar panel efficiency. Solar modules employing these higher efficiency cells yield greater […]

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Perovskite Panel Startup Tandem PV Rolls Ahead With $6 m Funding

US based perovskite company Tandem PV has secured US$6 million in funding to advance research and development (R&D) and plans to build its first manufacturing plant. The funding round was led by venture capital firm Planetary Technologies, an existing investor in the company, with new backers including Uncorrelated Ventures, another venture capital firm, and solar […]

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