Florida Power & Light Augments Solar Energy Center with Advanced Batteries Updated On Mon, Mar 12th, 2018 by Saurenergy This innovative system incorporates a 10-megawatt/40-megawatt-hour battery-storage project into the operations of the FPL Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center, a 74.5-megawatt solar power plant that FPL built in 2016 in Charlotte County, Florida. Florida Power & Light Company has announced another milestone in its long-term strategy of delivering affordable clean energy to customers: the creation […] Read more
Slow ‘Hot Electrons’ Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency Updated On Tue, Feb 27th, 2018 by Saurenergy Photons with energy higher than the ‘band gap’ of the semiconductor absorbing them give rise to what are known as hot electrons. The extra energy in respect to the band gap is lost very fast, as it is converted into heat so it does not contribute to the voltage. University of Groningen Professor of Photophysics […] Read more
Laser Evaporation Technology to Create New Solar Materials Updated On Thu, Feb 22nd, 2018 by Saurenergy A team of materials scientists at Duke University in the US has developed a new laser evaporation technique to create new hybrid thin-film materials that could be used to make solar cells, light-emitting diodes and photodetectors. The research team described their methods in the journal ACS Energy Letters. As Duke explains, Perovskites are a class […] Read more
Avaada Power to Invest Rs 10k cr to Set Up 1,600 MW Solar Projs in UP Updated On Thu, Feb 22nd, 2018 by Saurenergy The company’s projects will help the state in meeting its annual target of 2,000 MW production capacity of solar energy. Avaada Power, a clean energy company, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government during the Investors Summit 2018 to invest Rs 10,000 crore in setting up 1,600 MW solar projects. […] Read more
Sterling and Wilson to Build Zambia’s Largest Solar Plant Updated On Wed, Feb 7th, 2018 by Saurenergy Sterling and Wilson was ranked as the world’s largest pure play solar EPC company (outside USA and China) by IHSMarkit in Q1 2017. Sterling and Wilson, leading Global Solar EPC Company has been chosen to construct Zambia’s largest solar plant, of capacity 54.3 MWp. It is the first project to be implemented in the frame […] Read more
This Brand-New City in Florida Will Rely Solely On Solar Energy Updated On Thu, Jan 11th, 2018 by Saurenergy The new development calls itself “America’s First Solar-Powered Town”. Solar energy is being adopted by more and more cities all over the world. This time Babcock Ranch – a newly built city in Southwest Florida – will be the first totally ecological, self-sustaining place like it in the U.S. that will completely rely on solar […] Read more
Rs 2,800 Cr To be Invested in Madhya Pradesh Based Solar Park by IFC Updated On Thu, Jan 11th, 2018 by Saurenergy Continues of the speculation by IFC will be utilized for the development, operation, and upkeep of the solar plant. In one of the greatest arrangements in the sustainable power source space, International Finance Corporation (IFC), some portion of World Bank gathering, is near contributing $440 million or Rs 2,800 crore in Rewa Ultra Mega Solar […] Read more
Solar Power is Utilized to Illuminate Transport Covers During the Evening Updated On Mon, Jan 8th, 2018 by Saurenergy The rollout is part of a three-year plan that will see a total of 50 bus stops across the island using solar-powered illumination. Fifteen bus stops along the main service route from Douglas to Ramsey have been fitted with Zeta Specialist Lighting’s solar shelter lighting kit. The rollout is part of a three-year plan that […] Read more
Scientists Elevate Quantum Dot Solar Cell World Record Updated On Sat, Dec 30th, 2017 by Saurenergy Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) established a new world efficiency record for quantum dot solar cells, at 13.4 percent. Colloidal quantum dots are electronic materials and because of their astonishingly small size (typically 3-20 nanometers in dimension) they possess fascinating optical properties. Quantum dot solar cells emerged […] Read more
